msellars2440

Hello, I am a high school senior from the Northwest United States. I go to a private, Catholic school that is highly regarded in our area. Here are my classes from high school:

Freshman year:

French III
Physics Honors
PE (required)
World History (required)
Precalculus Honors
Faith Formation (required)
English I

Sophomore Year:

French IV
Chemistry Honors
Speech and Debate/Mock Trial (elective)
Health (required)
AP Calculus AB
Scripture (required)
English II

Junior Year:

French V/VI AP
Biology Honors
Drama (had to get my art credit)
AP US History
AP Calculus BC
Faith (required)
English III

Senior Year:

Prep period (working on college essays)
AP Biology II
AP Multivariable Calculus
English IV
Faith (required)
International Studies
AP Comparative Government

GPA: 3.61 (I know it's low, I didn't work too hard the first two years, and it brought it down)

SAT: Hasn't come in yet, last PSAT hit 2250, expected around 2300
ACT: 34, highest was a 36 in Reading, lowest was a 32 on Science
Taking the SAT II soon.

AP Tests:

AP Calculus BC : 5
AP US History: 5
AP French: 4

Made State Mock Trial, been doing it for 4th year.
Model United Nations
70 hours in the nearest children's hospital.
Started a non-profit organization that teaches science to underprivileged and at-risk children, 2nd year
National Merit Commended Scholar.

Ethnicity: Indian
Income Bracket: 250k+
Born in the US

I am heavily considering Early Action and Early Decision, but I'm not sure what colleges I should shoot for. I am interested in a college with a good Pre-med program, and I've looked at the Ivy Leagues, Duke, Rice, UCLA, UC Berkeley, but I want to know if I'm missing anything, and what my chances are. Thank you!

collegebound202

Your GPA is a little low for Ivys. I think if you ED a top 20 school you will have a decent shot at getting into it. Good luck!

adem96

Your GPA is your only pitfall, everything else is fine. If you can stress the importance of that organization you started in your essays, then your chances look a little better. ED somewhere to raise your chances even more.

Chance a junior for Top 20 (will chance back)

Dactylic126

ECs are weak for Ivies too. Maybe just average, but insufficient given that you lack in GPA also.

But maybe you might have a shot if you could produce a good essay

ThisNerdGotAGirl

AP Multivariable Calculus Doesn't exist.

goblin7224

Not only does AP Multivariable Calculus not exist, you can't get a 2250 on the PSAT. If what you meant was a 225, I don't think any of the NW states have their National Merit Semifinalist cutoff at 225; yet you somehow got only commended scholar. I'm not sure how much of this resume is true.

TheAnchorman

If you get a 2250 on your SAT, you have a chance everywhere.
If you apply to all the top 20 schools, you could get into none of them or you could get into all of them. No one on here can tell you whether or not you'll get into school A or B.
Obviously you know which schools are easier to get into. You'll have the best chance at those.
My advice is that since you're from the NW and looking at schools for prestige, consider top LACs like Williams/Amherst/Midd/Swarthmore/Bowdoin. They like kids from other parts of the country, and they're all top 20 caliber.

msellars2440

sorry, didnt mean the sophomore/junior PSAT, im doing a SAT prep class, and the last test I got was a 2250, so my instructor expects me to get a 2300 on the SAT. sorry about the Multivariable Calc mess-up, I wrote this when I was really tired so excuse me for the mistakes. Other than that, this resume is entirely true, I don't see why it would not be, as I'm trying to gauge where I'm at on college chances.

msellars2440

thanks for the response. What about schools like Duke, Rice, Georgetown, USC, UCLA or UNC? Ill definitely check out those LA schools.