<p>Okay so I am looking at Wesleyan University for Early Decision, but I'm also trying to figure out what other colleges I could get into if Wesleyan doesn't work out. I was thinking of places like Smith, Skidmore, Vassar, and Wellesley, but I'm open to any other places you think I could get into. I plan on majoring in biochemistry or neurosciences.
So chances for Wesleyan ED and other colleges?</p>
<p>aaaand here's my information:</p>
<p>-High School Senior
-first gen college student
-low income family, and divorced. (~$40K for my dad, ~20K for my mom)
-Rank: 4/221 cumulative, 3/221 Junior Year
-97% cumulative unweighted GPA, 4.8 weighted GPA (I'm pretty sure. I'm not really sure how the whole weighted and unweighted thing works.)</p>
<p>-Freshman Year: All honors courses, no AP courses available
-Sophomore Year: AP World History (no others available), all other classes were Honors
-Junior Year: AP Bio, APUSH, Pre-AP Chem, Pre-AP English, Honors Pre-Calculus,
-Senior Year: AP Chemistry, AP Calc, AP English, AP Mac.econ., AP Gov't, Honors Physics (no AP available), Human Anatomy and Physiology (and "elective" science with no honors or anything, but there is a prereq of 88% in a bio class). </p>
<p>--All A's for all of my classes, except for Honors Algebra II, which I got an 85% in.</p>
<p>-- Took spanish 2 at my high school freshman year(spanish 1 in eighth grade), but because of schedule constraints, I had to take french my sophomore year, but then that class was cut my Junior year, so I am taking spanish 2 at my local Penn State campus since spanish 2 at my high school was really a more difficult spanish 1. So overall, I have 4 years of languages, and three years of one language.
--Also, since the same thing also happened to a couple of my friends, we decided to start a sort of "club" where we meet up twice a week learn the languages we were taking before. I just had a few of my friends copy the materials they get from their language classes so we can kinda continue our language studies. Right now I am working on German IV stuff and Spanish 3 stuff. </p>
<p>-Concert Band 4 years
-Marching Band 4 years
-Wind Ensemble 3 years
-Concertmaster of Concert Band and Wind Ensemble 2 years (counts as leadership)
-Section Leader(CB&WE) 3 years (counts as leadership)
-first soloist in clarinet section (CB&WE)2 years (kinda counts as leadership?)</p>
<p>-Currently in NHS, Treasurer
-Mock Senate, only for senior year
-FBLA since my sophomore year and will be a project representative senior year (this will include competition, community service, and writing a thirty page paper on the project). </p>
<p>-I work for my family business, which takes up A LOT of my time (usually more than thirty hours a week during the school year, about fourty during the summer). I am a manager there and have worked there (officially) since I was fourteen. My job and commitment to the business are the reasons my ECs are lacking.</p>
<p>-120 hours community service at nursing home, 70 hours working for a community organization, and about 30 hours between NHS and FBLA stuff. Also volunteer and shadow at local Animal Hospitals, about 60 hours. </p>
<p>-Awards: Department Award for Band (sophomore year and junior year) and Department Award for Academic Achievement in Science (Junior Year)</p>
<p>-Chosen by school and local rotary club to participate in week long leadership camp, and I was fully sponsored by the rotary club. Only two kids in my school were chosen.</p>
<p>-Subject tests: 740 on Biology M and 570 on World History. Taking the SAT Lit Subject Test this Saturday, and should do better than I did on the World History (anticipating at the worst a 650).</p>
<p>-SAT: I took them twice- first time: 620CR,640M,720W; second time- 710CR,660M, 610W. So as a superscore, I got 710CR,660M,720W, which is a 2090.</p>
<p>-Teacher Recs: Very good. One was from my Pre-AP and AP Biology teacher (so I had her two years) and the other was from my AP Gov teacher who I've had the past four years (for ninth grade history and then electives 10th and 11th grade and now for AP Gov).</p>