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Old 06-01-2007, 12:16 PM   #1
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COLGATE Chances

Hey everyone-names cj i posted and well id like a few more of your thoughts on whether i could get into these schools or not
Applying to:,U Michigan, Colgate,Cornell, Georgetown, UF, boston U(legacy), Boston College, (in that order)
Im looking to try to get into economics or anything prelaw for undergrad
Right now im a junior in a competitive school in florida. Last year (10th grade) i took
AP World History,-A (3 on Ap test-i know sucks)
Ap Biology-A(3 again-i had a really bad fever and missed like the last two weeks of school so this was expected)
Spanish 3 Honors-A
Geometry Honors,-B
English 2 Honors -B
Drafting 2. -A

Junior Year (so far/ projected)
AP Chemistry-C (Project a 3)
AP English Comp -A (Project a 4-5)
AP American History -A (Project a 5)
AP Government (TOOk ONLINE)-B (Project a 4-5)
Spanish IV Honors -A
Algebra II Honors(TOOK ONLINE)-B
Latin I Honors (TOOK ONLINE)-A

Senior Year Schedule
Ap MacroEconomics ONLINE
Ap English Lit
Ap Spanish
Ap Psycology
PrecalcH
Calc H
Latin II Honors (ONLINE)
Test Scores
ACT-31

SAT II's
MAth I-680
American History- 710
Lit-670


ECs(by the end of high school)
4 years of Track (3 varsity, 3 school records, regionals states all that good stuff, not going to run in college though)
3 years varisty Cross Country (Captain Jr and Senior year) ran on a cracked rib the whole season, so didnt go to states or anything
Finished 4th in my age group in the Naples Half Marathon (1:32:00)
3 years of soccer (varsity senior year)
Job at Country Club (18 hours a week)
Executive Internship at a local law firm in the summer
80 hours of community service
Founder and president of local running club
2 years of Key Club
3 years of FCA
2 years of NHS
2 years of History Honors Society

National Honor Roll

My recs will be great and im writing my essay on how i ran all of cross country last year on a cracked rib and torn intercosstiual? muscle in my chest, so im sure theyll like it

If this helps me any, my mom is a single mother with 4 kids on a teachers salary...

My Gpa should be around 4.8-4.9ish due to the weight our school puts on honors and AP courses and 3.5-3.6ish U.W.
Class Rank= top 15
I ve basically worked my tail off this year to give my self a chance at schools like this...
thanks
cj

I want to get into anything prelaw really btw
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Old 06-01-2007, 05:54 PM   #2
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bump....................
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Old 06-01-2007, 08:05 PM   #3
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looks good with all those ap's, keep up the hard work senior year and you should be fine

just out of curiosity...how did you manage to do 3 years of both varsity xc and soccer? were you on one in 7th grade?
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Old 06-01-2007, 09:38 PM   #4
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haha i guess florida has a different sport schedule than up north
xc is a fall sport and soccer is winter
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Old 06-02-2007, 02:48 PM   #5
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oh wow, thats quite strange
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Old 06-10-2007, 06:58 PM   #6
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sorry-typo, my ACT is a 29

i plan on applying ED
anyone help me out here?
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Old 06-24-2007, 05:57 PM   #7
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bumpppppppp
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