kidchicago

HI,

I am an ORM who attends a top private school in Southern California.
I'm applying RD

Full IB-Diploma Candidate
SATI: 2350 ( This is 2nd time taking, the 1st time I got 2150)
ACT: 35 (1st time)

SATII: IIc: 800, USH: 780, Lit: 800; Bio 740 (predicted)
AP';s: Calculus AB: 5; Bio:5; Euro: 5, Chem:4, USH: 4,
taking alot more senior year.

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SCHOOL DOES NOT RANK
GPA: 3.5 unweighted (Huge upward trend: 3.1, 3.5, 3.9, and I assume 4.0 for the 1st semester of senior year)

My GPA probably seems pretty bad to most of you guys. But I'm not sure if it really is. My friend has a 3.78 and was told by his counselor that his GPA was the third highest in his class. Im not sure if anyone actually has straight A's in my class. The school is pretty tough. And many of the B's I got in 10th grade were in AP Classes which I scored a 4 or 5 on. I basically got straight A's in 11th (only 1 b).

EC's:

Captain of Varsity Tennis team
Captain of Academic Decathlon team
President of Independent Political Club
Vice-President of Community Service Club
Member of Debate Team

Lots of volunteering and some work experience.

Essays should be extremely good. Writing has always been strong point for me, and I have already started on the essays, so they should be really good by Jan 1st.

cheers

Study your school's scattergrams. You and your GPA cannot escape the scattergram.

The good news? As a boy, that is not an 'unexpected' GPA.

The bad news? Top universities hold private school students to a higher standard--and they tend to maintain that standard year to year.

schrizto

Since your private school is well-known colleges will probably be familiar with the tough grading system.