<p>Help Appreciated, thanks. School suggestions are nice</p>
<p>Gender: M
Location: Connecticut
College Class Year: 2014
High School: Public
High School Type: sends some grads to top schools
Will apply for financial aid: Yes</p>
<p>Academics:</p>
<p>GPA - Unweighted: 3.98
GPA - Weighted: 4.75
Class Rank: top 2.5% (11 out 454, not reported)
Class Size: 454</p>
<p>Scores:</p>
<p>SAT I Math: 770
SAT I Critical Reading: 800
SAT I Writing: 700
SAT I Combined: 2270</p>
<p>SAT II Literature: 720
SAT II U.S. History: 740</p>
<p>AP Scores:
Chem: 4
USH: 5
Lang: 5</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:</p>
<p>Significant Extracurriculars: Boy Scouts, Marching Band, Nation Honors Society, Public Forum Debate Team Member, Book Club
Leadership positions: Senior Patrol Leader/ Quartermaster of Boy Scout Troop, Book Club President
Volunteer/Service Work: S.M.A.R.T Child Day Camp Program (200 hours)
Boy Scouts (150 hours)
Honors and Awards: MAT Inter-district Summer Residency Program (Central Connecticut State University) - Statewide art program - only sixty some kids selected (Summer of sophomore year)
Eagle Scout
National Merit Scholar
Brown Book Award, some other school awards</p>
<p>UConn (EA)
Bowdoin
Cornell
Tufts
Georgetown (EA)
NYU
BU
Columbia
Brown</p>
<p>UConn - In
Bowdoin - Match
Cornell - low match
Tufts - low match
Georgetown (EA) - low match
NYU - in
BU - in
Columbia - low reach
Brown - low reach</p>
<p>At the best schools on your list, three-fourths or more of the applicants are academically qualified to handle the workload, so of course those schools are going to see your good grades and scores, but they’ll eventually move past them and look more at your extracurricular involvement and your essays. I’m not saying yours are bad, but you might want to focus them more and emphasize your committment to certain areas in particular. If you have done/will do that, your chances at above average pretty much everywhere you are applying.</p>