<p>nicely said. That was a very good post. I agree with you.</p>
<p>I had only one EC which was only in my senior year. I applied to MIT and got rejected. The rejection letter was something like Hahahahahahahahaha.</p>
<p>Attend another school, become ultra successful and after you become a household name, send them a thank-you letter for rejecting you.</p>
<p>Haha, the ultimate cruel irony. Hopefully I get into my first choice school.</p>
<p>My reach is Carolina</p>
<p>3.8 gpa. 640 math, 640 verbal, 570 writing.</p>
<p>75/312 rank</p>
<p>Lots of C's and a D in honors pre-calc.</p>
<p>ECs - DECA (president), FBLA, and like 12 hours community service, freshman basketball.</p>
<p>well, it's pretty good you got a 3.8 w/ c's and a d, right? means you took hard classes.</p>
<p>sometimes I wonder why everyone applies to these super-competitive schools like HYP... most of them seem really overrated, anyway, and you'd probably get a similar (perhaps better) education elsewhere.</p>
<p>Is the 3.8 gpa weighted. It would make sense only if it were weighted. I don't see how you could get that if it were unweighted.</p>
<p>My biggest reach is the University of Chicago. I am not getting in.</p>
<p>GPA: 100.033
Rank: 22/240
SATI: 610M, 650V, 620W
SATII: 760 USH, 680 World
APs: 5-APUSH, taking Environmental, English Lit., and World History</p>
<p>ECs: play bagpipes, started service project, lots of community service, President of the History, Academic Challenge, and Law Club
UN Millennium Campaign Student Leader, Eucharistic Minister</p>
<p>Actually, you stand a more than fair chance of getting in, and the only problem as far as I can see is your test scores, which are nothing stellar...but hey. Who am I to talk...I'm in the same boat!</p>
<p>Reaches: Cornell, Duke, JHU, UVA</p>
<p>3.85 weighted more or less 3.5 unweighted</p>
<p>2160 SAT 760 CR 740 WR 660 M </p>
<p>32 ACT</p>
<p>SAT II: math2c=660 french=620 ushist=690</p>
<p>wheeeeeeee</p>
<p>wow, you play the bagpipes? That's really cool!</p>
<p>Anyway, my biggest reaches are stanford, duke, and columbia. I REALLY want to go to duke. Princeton's on there too, but that's sort of beyond reach and into hopeless. But my dad lives there, so yeah. </p>
<p>SAT 2160 ACT 32 GPA 4.35 rank: 11/500 something. </p>
<p>My sat scores are what kinda kill me. My math and science are always really low. Like, 660. My writing and reading were 740 and 760, respectively. </p>
<p>I've got NHS, ballet, piano, National merit commended, ap scholar, board of education award, and some other stuff. </p>
<p>but yeah, the test scores are just not doin' it.</p>
<p>NYU
Cal
UCLA</p>
<p>GPA: 3.77 UW/ 4.1 UC/ 4.3 W
SAT I: 1980 (yowzas!)
SAT II MATH: 670 (yikes!)</p>
<p>296/2150
33 ACT
3.7</p>
<p>UT business</p>
<p>Reach: Stanford</p>
<p>2280 SAT (800 writing, 750 critical reading, 730 math)
760 SAT2MATH
GPA: 3.9 UW/4.3 W
RANK: 12/75 (dannnnnng.)
ECS: soph. vice president, senior class president, prom committee, NHS, national merit commended scholar, piano, and some other stuff.
WORK: kumon (4 hrs,tutor, 9-11), coldstone (shift manager, 15 hrs, 11-present)
OTHER: i have a rare (sometimes fatal) lung disease called PAP... i'm hoping that'll do the trick...</p>
<p>A REAL REACH----</p>
<p>2.6 gpa, 1670 sats 610m 540v 520w, middle eastern, some ec's</p>
<p>Syracuse and WPI</p>
<p>but ill probably get into WPI, the coach told me not to worry about my transcript...</p>
<p>this thread is awesome!</p>
<p>yea my gpa is weighted. Unweighted I have a 3.3. Our school weights 5 points for honors and 6 for aps</p>
<p>3.25 (w), in the top 30 percent, SAT scores in the 1700ish, SAT 2s both 600-650. </p>
<p>But I "supposedly" have excellent ECs. (teachers and counselors tell me)</p>
<p>UCB, UCLA, and almost all UCs. </p>
<p>THAT'S depressing.</p>
<p>My big reaches:
NYU (Steinhard, Communications Major) & University of NC Chapel Hill (Out of State).</p>
<p>GPA: 3.7 UW (3.8 W)
Rank: 60/365 (Pretty competitive school, considering I am have an A average percentage wise and am only in the 2nd decile)
SAT: 2160/1360 600M 760V 780CW (11 essay)
SAT II: 710 Lit 750 French w/ Listening
Will have taken a total of 7 AP exams upon graduation. </p>
<p>ECs: Run a freelance web design company, self-taught web design/HTML/etc., ran a very successful Mariah Carey web site (with between 10.000-30.000 visitors, not hits, a month), run a Mariah Carey fan club (lots of charity projects, raised close to $1000; I run the entire club and organize all events, etc.), in direct contact with Mariah's management/record company and organize promo events in Atlanta, Varsity Swimming 4 years (4-year letter; Manager this year), Work at a pizza restaurant (since 11th grade), Tutoring a student in French, Elected onto the Board of Governors for the French Club</p>
<p>Perks: French & Mariah Carey. I also attended the Governor's Honors Program in French, minor in Computers/Web Design</p>
<p>Downfall: Grades. Going to get once C this semester, 2 Bs, 3 As</p>
<p>GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE!!</p>
<p>this thread was much more interesting when people with actual low stats posted rather than people with 2100+ scores posted; no offense themagster, but I don't think you belong in this thread...</p>