jakjak1

Hey Guys, Can you guys chance me??

Prospective Colleges:
UNC-CH
Eastern Carolina
Yale University
University of Pennsylvania
Univeristy of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Virginia
Johns Hopkins
Duke
UC-Berkeley
UCLA
Vanderbilt
Rice

Yea I know this is alot but it's my plan.

Weighted GPA: 4.88
Unweighted GPA: 4.0 right now, 3.88 after junior year first semester
Btw I attend an early college so its college classes instead of AP
Class Rank: 1 out of 70 right now, after junior year end predicted 3 out of 60

Freshman Year:
Fall:
college writing class, 1 credit)
Anatomy and Physiology (Honors)
Earth Science (Honors)
Civics and Economics (Honors)

Spring:
English 1 (Honors)
Integrated Math 2 (Honors)
Research Methods and Techniques (Honors)
Spanish 1 (Non-Honors)

Sophmore Year:
Summer class Psychology through NCVPS (honors)
Fall:
Biology (Honors)
College Health Class, 2 credits, as well as fullfills my high school health requirement)
Integrated Math 3 (Honors)
Spanish 2 (Honors)

Spring:
Chemistry (Honors)
Precalc College Class (College Class, 4 credits)
English 2 (Honors)
US History (Honors)

Junior Year:
Fall:
Math Trig/Calc (College Class, 4 credits, transfers to state universities as Precalculas/Trigonometry)
Biology (College Class, 4 credits, transfers to state universities as freshman year biology)
Eng (College Class, 3 credits, transfers as a Writing Class to state universities)
Sociology (College Class, 3 credits, transfers as Intro to Sociology at state universities)

Spring (already scheduled):
Math (College Class, 4 credits, transfers to state univ. as Calc 1)
Biology (College Class, 4 credits, transfers to state univ, as sophomore Biology)
Religions (College Class, 3 credits, transfers to state univ. as World Relegions)
Eng (College Class, 3 credits, transfers to state univ as freshman english)

Junior End Summer: Spanish 3 (Honors)
Senior Year:
College Classes Options:
Physics 1
Physics 2
Calc 2
Chm 1
Chm 2
Eng 3
Psycholgy 1
Spanish College Classes 1,2,3

SAT: 2150 (M: 740, CR: 690, W:720)
ACT: 33

Extracurriculars:
Chess: MANY tournament wins, state tournaments, national tournaments. Placed top 10 in states once, placed top 50 in country.
Teen Council: Secretary of city teen council
Temple youth Group: Volunteer Coordinator

Volunteer Hours:
4 PresidentialVolunteerServiceAwards (3 Gold, 1 Silver)

City Award for Volunteering

Started HOSA at school:
President first year, Co-president of campus second year

Science Olympiad Participant
SGA Member

Work Experience: Taught several one on one chess lessons in neighborhood as well as a summer teaching academy.

Any suggestions? Chances for all my colleges would be greatly appreciated. Please feel free to comment on any section of how I can improve. Also if anyone has any other good fits of top colleges that make sense. I plan to major in Astrophysics, physics, law, or political science. I plan to go to med school also

mellon123

sat's are low for the ivies

jakjak1

I realize that IVies are probably a reach but my dream school is Johns Hopkins. I can probably raise my SAT to 2200 and ACTs to 34....

muckdogs07

Yale = High reach (less than 5%); Duke, Penn, Vandy, Virginia OOS, Hopkins, Rice = reaches (less than 30%); UCB, Michigan = low reaches (50/50), UCLA, UNCH = matches (80/20), and ECU = safety (100%)

Bump up your SATs 50 points and you will become more competitive although it would not surprise me if you got accepted at one of your reaches.

For physics/astrophysics, do not overlook state schools like Illinois, Va Tech, NC State, and Maryland.

jakjak1

I think one thing going for me is my school rigor, I am completing 64+ college credits in high school time and yea I def need to study up SAT. What about a 34-35 ACT?? would that help?

JohnnyToledo

High Reach: yale, u penn

for the rest of the schools, I'd say you are very competitive except for SAT. Get that up there! It be a shame to have gone through all that work, and be denied because of your SATs. Go to the library, get an SAT book, take a bunch of practice tests, listen to SAT audiobooks, get it? Do what you need to do to raise the SAT score, and I promise you, you will get into an Ivy league.

jakjak1

Thanks all that have given me advice. Please need some more as well.

I understand the fact that SATs are A really big deal but would a 34 on ACT would be sufficient to keep me from the negative balance at all these tops schools Im trying to achieve for?

ccguest223

Embellish your extracurriculars, make sure you have excellent essays and recs, and you should have as good a chance as anyone at the Ivies.
One note though, your extracurriculars seem to dabble in a bit of everything. Try to make sure you show that you have deep commitments, rather than a laundry list of activities.

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jakjak1

I am very committed to 2 volunteer Organizations. showing how I have progressed up their leadership ladder and how i have earned more an dmore hours every year for them will help right?

jakjak1

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