Yet another chances thread

<p>This is cross-posted in the college forums, because I did not see this forum at first.</p>

<p>My goal schools would be Brown, WashU, JHU, and maybe Rice. </p>

<p>My rank is horrid, this I know. Top Quarter of my class (something like 21% out of a class of a thousand). My school is also one of the most well-known public high schools in the Nation. Among other things, we have put five people into MIT, three into Stanford, three into Yale and two into Brown last year if I'm not mistaken.</p>

<p>SAT: 1520 (740V / 780M)
SATIIs: 700W, Registered to take MathIIC, Biology-M, and Physics in October.</p>

<p>AP Courseload:</p>

<p>AP Human Geograpy (10)
AP English III (11)
AP Chemisty II (11)
AP Comp Sci A (11)
AP US History (11)
AP Latin III (11)
AP English IV (12)
AP Biology II (12)
AP Physics C (12)
AP Calculus BC (12)
AP Comp Sci AB (12)
AP Latin IV (12)</p>

<p>That's all I can think of right now.</p>

<p>ECs:
-Nat'l Latin Honor Society
-Latin Club (President)
-Selected Member of UIL Science Team
-Students Organizing Community Outreach (Officer)
-Technology / Scientific Research Club (We build robots and mechanisms and enter them in competitions).
-Computer Club ( Responsible for organization of Fundraisers)
-Math Honor Society (Ironic as math isn't a strong point for me) :P.
-NHS
-Active member of the Turkish-American Association of North Texas (We host a huuuuge TurkFest anually and do volunteer work to promote cultural integration deep in the heart of Texas).
-SAT / Science Tutor
-Started a Film Productions "organization." My twin, my best friend and I wanted to make some cash and have fun in the process so we started to film, edit, and produce DVDs for people (ex. Our largest project was a compilation video for a local Volleyball team that took the gold medal in the International Junior Olympics). I don't know if this counts or not.</p>

<p>Work:
I work a 15-20 hour week on schooldays and a full 40 hour week during summers when I'm not attending summer school to get required credits out of the way. I started out doing Office Monkey type jobs (Filing, Data entry) but moved up to Income Tax Preparation. On my resume it appears as something along the lines of:</p>

<p>-IT/Networking Specialist, (Liberty Tax Services, USATax)
-Technical Specialist (Kaizen Foods)
-TURANT Turk Festival (Volunteer work)
-Co-Founder/Media Technician, Three Brothers Productions. Responsible for web sites, video editting, etc.</p>

<p>Trilingual:
English, Turkish, and Spanish (I took Spanish up to Level III in High School. I also work with spanish speaking customers on a regular basis. I don't know if I can really call this fluent or not, but I manage to interact and converse with them and get their taxes done =) ).</p>

<p>Also, I skipped a year of high school latin (went from Latin I -> Latin III AP) via Credit By Exam test. I was considering majoring in classics / biology, so I hope this will be a boon. Also, my Latin Teacher obtained her BA/Master's in Classics at Brown University, class of '63 I believe. She told me she would be more than happy to write me a letter of rec. for any school. Will they weigh her letter of rec any more strongly?</p>

<p>Aaand that's about it. Thank you for your input, whatever it may be. =)</p>

<p>what's your GPA?</p>

<p>Something like 3.95, weighted and 3.5 unweighted.</p>

<p>Your SAT's should be fine, but unweighted GPA - ouch. Of course, it also looks like you've got an extremely competitive school and a ton of APs...how are your AP scores?<br>
I don't know if Brown would weight a rec from an alum, but it certainly can't hurt ya. You'll need kick-butt recs and essays (especially essays, make sure you stand out) if you want to stand a good chance.</p>