<p>i just finished my junior fall and im windering where i stand
i got to an elite prep school outside boston
g.p.a.: 9.8/11 or 3.6/4
s.a.t.s: 700-680-630, so 2010
a.p.s (that i will have taken): 4- european history, calculus, biology and photography
extra-curriculars:
blues band: 10,11
vp of young democrats club: 10,11
environmental action committee officer: 10,11 (hoping for presidency next year)
sports: 1 year varsity soccer, 2 years varsity sailing or crew (i've mad both teams for this junior spring but i haven't chosen one yet), 3 years jv soccer (haha idk if that helps)
community service: 300+ hours
i also spent my sophomore spring doing environmental research in the bahamas
finally, i was wondering if colleges can read comments? because all my teachers call me lazy. and my worst academic semester was this fall which i know is bad, but i know i can improve a lot.
i am interested in:
middlebury
georgetown
duke
bowdoin
cornell
duke
uva
chicago
santa clara
brown
trinity
pomona
colorado college
do you think i have a shot at any of those? any other suggestions (no colleges in boston please to close to home)?
ok thanks a lot. please be realistic but optimistic and respectful as well. thank you</p>
<p>Wow, you must really like Duke - you listed it twice :P</p>
<p>whoops haha
also i am a fourth generation of harvard and princeton but im asuming that both of those are way out of the question like a few others on the list. out of our grade of 120, brown usually takes about 8. and also, my school grades very, very hardly and i think colleges know that.</p>
<p>I definitely think Santa Clara and Colorado College. I don’t know quite enough about the other schools to make a reasonable guess, but I’ll weigh in a yes on those two.</p>
<p>oh i forgot i’m also on the school newspaper and disciplinary comittee, and i’m a junior prefect.</p>
<p>Wow… a prefect, like in harry potter! Hahaha</p>
<p>Geez, a 4th gen H/P… you should DEFINITELY apply. Doesn’t matter what your stats are, you should still take a crack at it.</p>
<p>I think you have a good shot at most of those schools, maybe brown is a stretch. I know some qualified people who have been rejected there. Those are all really tricky though so I wouldn’t count on any of them, though I agree with the poster above, you’ve definitely got a good chance with Colorado, Santa Clara and Trinity. Have you looked at Wesleyan or Williams? I feel like you would like those too.
If you are looking for some more schools that you would be very likely to get in, maybe Colorado College, Colby, Lewis and Clark?</p>
<p>^ Georgetown, Brown, and Williams would be reach-dream.</p>
<p>IMO, Wesleyan would be a reach.</p>
<p>UVA (b/c you’re out of state), Chicago, Duke, Brown, Middlebury = all reaches.</p>
<p>Harvard is the most selective school you could be accepted to. These forums are so ridiculous, NONE of these kids know what adcoms are looking for, so your responses are based on guesses and hearsay.</p>
<p>Your best chances probably lie with Trinity, Santa Clara, and Colorado College, where your stats are closer to a match. The others are much more selective and are probably reaches for you.</p>
<p>I think you would have a good shot at Tufts, BC, and Holy Cross. Many of the schools you are aiming for are slightly outside your range, like Georgetown, Duke, Bowdoin, Brown, Chicago.</p>
<p>coming from a boston area prep school myself i have to point out that a 3.6 is actually a very good gpa (depending on which particular prep school you are from). that being said the sats are a bit low… but then four gens at princeton and harvard – that’s bound to help a bit</p>
<p>there’s an AP photography? Does it have an AP test?</p>
<p>^I think it’s part of AP Studio Art?</p>
<p>4 of my closest friends just got into brown, playing no sports or arts, and they all had a lower gpa than me, though i’m pretty sure one of them bought his way in. my other friend got into duke with a 3.3. and again was not recruited. and those aren’t really abnormal, i’m telling you my school is insane. also i have a tutor for my next sat test, and still have to take the acts.
my college advisor has put brown, harvard, and chicago in my reach category, colorado, trinity, santa clara and georgetown in the likely, and the rest in the middle in case you were wondering.</p>
<p>and thanks 1980 collegegrad, but those were all in boston, and i want to leave boston.</p>
<p>ya i also go to boston prep school and everyone knows that it is a completely different scale. if you go to a good one of those schools, colleges put you into an entirely different pile.
my aunt works in admissions at middlebury, and i think with your extra curriculars and study abroad experience, you’d be a shoe in.</p>
<p>Okay so I go to a boarding school 50 miles away from Boston, but they’re very similar.</p>
<p>apply to harvard & princeton and i bet you 90% you’ll get into one of them</p>
<p>atom<em>and</em>eve, I know a kid who not only has four or five generations of family at Harvard, but is also a member of a prominent presidential American family, and he didn’t get in to Harvard but had good enough grades and stats to get into Penn and Dartmouth without any extra help. With this guys low stats (lower than those of my friend) and with the crapshoot that is the college admission process, I wouldn’t give him nearly that high a percentage. That being said, he should still apply.</p>