s13nior

I go to a top private school in Boston. It's crazy competitive, so my GPA is pretty low, but I've had an upward trend since freshman year and got mosty As, a few A- my junior year (most rigorous course load available).
GPA: ~3.73 UW
SAT: 2350
Sat II: Latin 790, Math I 800, Chem 770

ECs: Lit Mag 4 years (Editor-in-chief), newspaper 4 yrs (section editor), piano 11 years + school orchestra, I tutor middle schoolers twice a week (4 years), started creative writing club and community service program teaching underprivileged kids to write creatively (president + founder), interned at a lit mag + a newspaper, published in 3 lit mags + multiple times in a newspaper, independent physics research, physics lab internship @ MIT for a summer, some random community service clubs

Summers: internships, cty, ivy summer programs

Race: White
Gender: Male

I know I'm not a competitive applicant in terms of ECs + academics, but I'm wondering if you think I have any shot at all (EA or RD)? I want to major in english and minor in physics. This school is literally my dream, but I don't want to apply if it's a lost cause and I would fare better at a less prestigious school. Do you think there's any way the 3.7 thing can be amended?

gibby

Does your high school use Naviance or something similar? If they do, you can check your GPA against fellow students from your high school with similar stats who applied to Princeton. That might be a better indication than asking folks here at CC.

The reason that I'm suggesting this approach is that your GPA is low for Princeton (or Yale -- where you posted a similar thread). At my son and daughter's high school, for example, P & Y only took a handful of students with averages below 94 -- no matter what test scores -- but those students seem to be outliers. The majority of students had 95 to 98 averages. It might be the same at your high school, or it might be different, so it's best to use school-specific data if available.