What's My Shot!

Applying to College
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<p>I'm a high school junior ( male)
3.975 uw GPA (5.875 w)</p>

<h1>2 out of 546</h1>

<p>Schedule:
Ap Chem
Ap Calc AB
Ap Lang and Comp
Spanish 4 ( native speaker)
Ap U.S. Hist.
Ap Bio
Wind Ensemble ( highest level of band- first chair clarinet)</p>

<p>Prospective Senior Schedule:
Ap Calc Bc
Ap Literature
Ap Spanish
AP Psych
Ap Gov and Eco
Ap Physics or Ap Physics
Wind Ensemble
Ap Euro Hist</p>

<p>most rigorous schedule in the school according to my guidance counsiler.</p>

<p>SAT- Composite: 2120
ACT- Composite with Writing: 32
Ap Exams- all 4s or 5s</p>

<p>ECs</p>

<p>Varsity Tennis
Pit Orchestra
Tech Crew for Drama Productions
Marching Band (Drum major)
Drama Club
National Honor Society
National Art Honor Society
National Foreign Language Honor Society
National Society of High School Scholors
National Tri-Music Honor Society
Beta Club
Tutor (3 active students- geomatry,calculus, earth science)
Foreign Language Club
Class representative
Class executive public relations ( organize all fund raisers and projects)
Class Secratary (freshman)
Robotics
Camp counsilor at Beta Broyhill national leadership
Jazz Band ( tenor sax ) and treasurer</p>

<p>Awards and Such</p>

<p>all state tenth chair - clarinet
Governors award for character and excellence
nomination for National Leadership Forum on medicine
Beta Broyhill national Leadership Conference
All county Band (suffolk, NY)
and some others im forgeting...</p>

<p>Other tidbits
I Am Hispanic, speak/read/write Spanish speak/read Italian, read: French ,learning Chinese
I bake specialty cakes for weddings and other events
I am first gen
I crochet and make various items to donate to local church
I have numerous hours (300+) of community service starting since 6 grade</p>

<p>I also did not mention I created a cancer model using fruit flies. I used oxidative stress to develop tumors or growths on the flies. I was going to complete the same task and ad a chemical beta coratene found in garlic to their environment to see if it would prolong the effects, but I was hospilitzed for my epilepsy.Is was an independent project. I plan to finish it if I ever get access to Brookhaven lab ( had a internship last summer)</p>

<p>Please chance me for the following:</p>

<p>Princeton
UPenn
Cornell
Johns Hopkins ( possibly ED)
Columbia
NYU
Yale( would be a dream)
UC- Berkely
Dartmouth
Brown
Harvard ( i would die if I found out I got accepted</p>

<p>Major will either be Chemical/ environmental/ Engineering</p>

<p>Please and thank you!</p>

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<p>Work on your SAT a bit (since you have so much time), other than that you are looking quite incredible for a junior! Your fruit flies thing would make for an amazing essay :slight_smile: You will need to take SAT II’s sometime in the next year and these also contribute to admissions.</p>

<p>Your ECs are ridiculous (in a a good way)! But there’s only room for 10 activities/clubs/jobs on the Common App, and a similar number for others applications, so if anything gets overwhelming or your grades are suffering in the slightest, consider not stretching yourself so thin, aka finding your passions, aka giving yourself time to breathe and enjoy yourself. :)</p>

<p>While those schools all have in common that they are very selective, and mostly on the East Coast, they are all very different. So while you might have the scores and the grades for them, you need to really research this year to figure out which schools you fit best with! This will have something to do with if colleges except you- for example, I can’t see MIT accepting me whether I had the stats or not because I’ve spent my whole life avoiding STEM subjects. Berkeley has its radical past and (semi?)liberal present, and many Asian-Americans and first-generations, and OOS tuition with few scholarship breaks. Its a matter of if admissions thinks you belong based on academics/ecs, or that you would contribute something much needed on campus. </p>

<p>You asked first if you could get into Princeton, but mentioned that you may apply ED to JHU - either way, keep in mind you don’t need to get your heart set on any one college just yet! Plan to visit/revisit the colleges you listed above and then figure things out from there. I think that you are a strong enough candidate that if you wanted to apply Single-Choice Early Action for Princeton, that it might be reasonable to do that if JHU is some kind of backup for you.</p>

<p>I think you are guaranteed to get into at least a few of these amazing schools or maybe most of them, but you should also look at a couple more schools with an acceptance rate above the single digits, for safeties’ sake :D</p>

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<p>I did take SAT IIs Math I- 800 Math II- 790 Spanish-800 Chemisty-770</p>

<p>Thanks for the info. I actually posted the Princeton thing before I read the message over but I edited it. </p>

<p>My mom tells me not to spread my self thin too!</p>