<p>Gender: Female
Race: White
School: Public, NJ
Current Year: Junior
GPA: 4.74 (weighted); 4.0 (unweighted)
SAT I: 760 M, 760 CR, 770 W Total 2290 (I had the flu when I took them... I retook and I definitely think I did better)
SAT II's: 740 Bio, 770 French, 780 Math II, 800 Chem
ACTs: not taken yet
Rank: 3/320
AP: Bio-5; French Language; English Composition; AB Calc; Chem; US History
Courseload (Junior year): AP French, AP English, AP Chem, AP Calc, AP US History, Physics H, Accounting H
(Senior year): Honors Java, AP English, AP Physics, AP Calc BC, AP Euro, AP Econ (self-study), Research in Molecular Biology (in conjunction with Rutgers Univ.), AP Environmental</p>
<p>Academic Decathlon (3 awards, Most Valuable Team Member last year)
FBLA (1st at states in Accounting I; going to nationals; Community Service VP)
Drama Club/Fall Play (extensive involvement since 7th grade; Crew Liaison officer position)
Fencing
French Honor Society (President)
National Honor Society
History Club (Roving officer, 10th grade; Public Education officer, 11th grade; History Club Member of the Year 11th grade; President next year)
Math Club (qualified for AIME)
Science League (Top 10% in state Chem I-10th grade, and Chem II-11th grade)
Treasurer of Temple Youth Group for 4 years
Mentoring (a lot... community service)
Lead Mentor (a lot of leadership)
Hebrew School Teacher's Helper- 2 years
Girl Scouts- 12 years, Gold & Silver Awards
Summer: Stanford Summer College (A+ in Latin); ASA Oxford; Something for this summer...
Other: I've taken 3 online courses with CTY, as well as taking Spanish I and II at a local college.</p>
<p>Well, you are a wonderful student. Be sure to get an additional letter of rec from your mentoring supervisor or girl scout leader - it's a little hard to see you the person in your list of activities, and a letter from someone that really knows you could help.</p>
<p>You don't need to take the ACT unless you think you can nail it for a 36.</p>
<p>You certainly look strong on paper, just remember to bring your strength out into your essays. Chicago has gotten quite a raise in popularity this year, but the admissions office, I imagine, still wants to know that the students who are applying want to be in the environment that we have here. You can make sure to tell the admissions staff that you want to come by really shining through on your essays and showing them you're unafraid of weird questions or bizarre ways of thinking.</p>
<p>And congrats on qualifying for the AIME! Possibly my favorite math test of all time :-)</p>
<p>This is an example, all too common on CC, of a really silly "chances" thread. OP, you are a strong, driven, achieving student. You know that already. You will be in the game anywhere you apply, certainly including Chicago, with or without 30 or 40 more points on the SATs. You know that already, too. Congratulations.</p>
<p>The challenge for you is to make decisions about what you want, and what makes sense for you, and then to communicate who you are in your application. Being the Bright Well-Rounded Kid you are would get you into 99% of the colleges in the country almost automatically, but chances are that you are going to want to attend one of the other 1%, and they know that no one continues on a high level in science, math, history, drama, finance, Hebrew, fencing, and French indefinitely. You are going to have to provide some sort of guide to what's you and what's you meeting other people's expectations.</p>
<p>I know I didn't have to retake them... I know that I shouldn't have. However, before I got my scores back my mom, assuming I did much more poorly than I actually did, registered me for the June SAT. I had already taken subject tests and I really don't see the point in taking more, and my mom didn't want to lose out on her money, so I just took them. No prep work or anything... so all I lost, really, was 4 hours when, if I hadn't been testing, I would have been either sleeping or playing computer games anyway.</p>