What are my chances?

<p>Ok well I know you get alot of these so I'll just give you the regular.</p>

<p>I'm going to be applying to:
-Harvard
-Yale
-Tufts
-Boston University
-Boston College
-Brandeis
-UMass Amherst
-MIT (not sure about that one)
-Georgetown
-Northwestern</p>

<p>I think that's my list so far.</p>

<p>Academics:
I've been improving more or less steadily throughout high-school.
This year I'm enrolled in the International Baccalaureate program and take:
Chemistry - 1st term A- - 2nd term A
Biology - 1st term B+ - 2nd term B+
English - 1st term A- - 2nd term A
German - 1st term A- - 2nd term A
Information Technology - 1st term A- - 2nd term A
Math - 1st term A- - 2nd term A</p>

<p>Projected Rank:
I hope to be 3rd out of a class of about 60. That's right on the 5% borderline. I attend an internationla school that only has about 150 high school students total.</p>

<p>Standardized Tests:
PSAT National Merit Scholar
1390 SAT (700 Math 690 Verbal) - I don't know my results to the new one yet
AP French - 5
AP German - 5
SAT II are still to come
AP 30 first time and 31 second time</p>

<p>Extracurricular:
Basketball since 4th grade - Varsity basketball since 10th grade
Club team basketball since 4th grade
11th grade Debate Team
12th grade Student Council (provisional since I'm not in 11th grade yet)
I help immigrant and refugee kids do their homework on tuesdays and thursdays
I'm also involved in the International Bazaar each year (proceeds go to charity)
I've been playing the piano since I was about 8 and plan to do a Royal Academy of Music certificate in the near future</p>

<p>Other Info:
I'm from Luxembourg, Europe
I speak/write four languages fluently: English, French, German, Luxembourgish
I'm taking Japanese courses
I have dual nationality: Luxembourgish/U.S.</p>

<p>Well thats all I can come up with off the top of my head. Any thoughts?</p>

<p>EDIT: Added Northwestern and my rank</p>

<p>Ok Northwestern should say Northeastern but I can't edit anymore...</p>

<p>ok, heres the quid pro quo:
i'll do your chances and u do mine
as im naturally the more generous of us two, ill start:
H: reach (very diff o.o. coutry)
Y: reach
MIT:big reach (700 math, dude?!?!?)
tufts:match
gtown:slight reach</p>

<p>ok, hope that helps, just trying to be as honest as possible, culater</p>

<p>thx alot for the feedback. i know bout MIT being a big reach but im hoping i did better on the new SAT, just took it last saturday. I figure that I might aswell though, seeing as I've got my heart more or less set on MA in the Boston area and would only wanna go to Yale or Georgetown if I got accepted. Anyone got any other ideas of good colleges I could apply to? Maybe shoot for a scholarship (in the Boston area)?</p>

<p>You might get money from BU- they give a lot. How about applying to Brown?</p>

<p>dunno about brown. my parents dont seem to like brown very much n plus thats NY. anymore ideas?</p>

<p>Brown is actually in Rhode Island, Columbia and NYU are in NYC.</p>

<p>even more reason why im not considering brown. any thoughts on the above though?</p>

<p>As an international needing money, expect to go to a school a good tier or two below where you might go if money were not needed. HY and the other top schools that do give generously to internationals generally do so to 4.0/1600s with national accomplishments. Unless you do much better than that 1370, UM Amherst is the only school I would consider a safety, and I don't know if that would be with money.</p>

<p>Might want to look at some very good liberal arts schools like Bowdoin,Middlebury, or Holy Cross-1 hour from Boston. These 3 schools have a better academic reputation than BC, BU, or Umass.</p>

<p>btw what kind of language is luxemborgish</p>

<p>I am seriously considering going to college this school year and skipping 9th-12th grades. I really wouldn't mind the social life, so don't bother sending threads eclusively for sentimental reasons intended to point out in a subtly disparaging tone how academics isn't everything; I have friends and would probably would make them easier at college anyway. However, I really don't know if it's possible to get into a college without GPA, APs, awards, or recs. I have taken the SAT many times and gotten 1380 (one 710m;670v, one 720m;660v)twice over this year at the age of 13{and they weren't Kaplan!}. I didn't prepare in the least for them, and am positive if I study for it, I can get 1470+; and probably 2180+ on the new SAT(though a certified math whiz, i only have 720 on math. That can be excused by the fact I haven't done any math in three years and have'nt even finished geometry yet?! -- But I can easily do that + alg.II + trig. over the summer.) Does anyone know of someone who skipped high school and moved straight to college at 14? Can anyone let me know what might be necessary for the move to college in my special case?{other than a martial arts course ;( }</p>

<p>errr... I doubt any good college would accept you.</p>

<p>I'm not aiming for an Ivy school yet. I'm aiming for completing a bachelor's at any somewhat decent school that'll take me, and later, at age 17 or 18, easily gain entrance to Caltech, and perhaps Oxford to get a P.h.D. in theoretical physics.</p>

<p>hehe, wow, talk about ambitious, lol
dont u think u need a few reaches in there big guy, im mean cmon now lets not sell u short here ( LOL)
FYI, there are a lot of bright pre-HS students like yourself (i managed a 1560 in eighth grade) and yes, i will go ahead and in a none-too-subtly disparaging tone crush your entirely misplaced optimism with two words chosen with the utmost of punctilious searches throught our mother-lexicon: GET REAL!!</p>

<p>lol, just trying to ease your transition into the real word, dude, not trying to make u feel worse about u</p>

<p>luxembourgish is one of the national languages of luxembourg. its sort of like a dialect of german, french, flemish, but then again its a whole language for itself. money wouldnt be a problem if i could get into a good school, and im going to get on nhs this year and i got 1390, not 1370. i hope i did better on the new one so i guess that will tell.</p>

<p>You say you're not even a junior yet:

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12th grade Student Council (provisional since I'm not in 11th grade yet)

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Yet you say you're a National Merit Scholar...explain?</p>

<p>i mean i am in 11th grade. i meant i wasnt in 12th grade yet. i got that merit thing sent home.</p>

<p>I just got a 2200 on my new SATs with an 800 in Math. How does that change my chances?</p>