branderson925

Hey thanks for reading

STATS: Caucasian Male from Outside Philadelphia
Academics:
GPA: UW 4.0ish W:4.96 (my school is a paragon of inflated weighting, i think. valedictorian is like 5.5)
SAT: (one more time in OCT)
M: 700
CR: 690
WR: 680
(came up from 1900)
Taking SATII's in Spanish and Biology in Nov. Can't figure out what other subject to take.
Class Rank: 18/519 (will go up a bit =/)
AP's: Calc AB and Euro as a JR (waiting for scores)
SR year: Calc BC, Gov, Spanish Lang, English Lang, and Biology

EC's:
X-Country: 11,12
Swimming: 9, 10, 11, 12 (Captain)
Tennis: 10,11,12?
Key Club, Student Gov?, FBLA, Film Club, Academic Team (possible leader), Hopefully will make NHS next year
Led MS Walk team 3 years now (that count?)
Debate Team
Mock Trial: Regionals

Work Part Time >20 hours weekly at Retirement Community

Schools (some are ridiculous I know, I am too dumb for them)

Penn State Main Campus
Drexel
Johns Hopkins
Boston U
Boston College
Vassar
Brown
Columbia
NYU-Tisch (film)
Georgetown
USC
UCLA
Should I bother applying to Penn, or save the money?

What should I do to improve chances for extreme reaches (which there are quite a few)
THANKS

Jason412

I think most of the schools on your list are pretty reasonable. I'd say just bring your SAT score up a little bit in Oct. and score high on the sat II's.

branderson925

bump please??

greennblue

UCLA is probably out of reach for you since you are not a CA resident. You should improve your scores before considering Ivies IMO.

branderson925

how much improvement?

s snack

Why would you apply to Brown and Columbia, but think that Penn would be a waste of money?
Brown is somewhat harder to get into than Penn, and Columbia is considerably harder.

miragemage

in order to compete for the ivies, you probably need a 50-100 point boost, but you'll be competitive in the applicant pool for these schools. save the money on penn, not many people get accepted there. you should be able to make most of the listed schools.

branderson925

50-100 pt is reasonable since i have time and just 3 weeks of studying boosted me 170 pts.

penn seems hard since i am a white male from the area which is a very low yield. and i hear how penn is so hard compared to the other ivies (well not harvard and yale)

BoelterHall

USC, UCLA:
Slight Reach (OOS)

sarahhhh

are you applying to wharton?
USC is private isn't it? why would it be harder OOS?


Penn State Main Campus - safety
Drexel- safety
Johns Hopkins- reach
Boston U- safety
Boston College- match
Vassar- slight reach
Brown- reach
Columbia- serious reach
NYU-Tisch (film)- big reach (do you have film ecs?)
Georgetown- reach
USC - slight reach
UCLA- big reach (your out of state)

to improve chances. make sure you get really good satIIs preferably in your projected major. write really really good essays, or creative essays to stand out from kids who have score like yours. get good recs, go visit the colleges.

branderson925

bump..will my higher than normal tisch students SATs help me.

I am going to be president of Film Club...made a couple films in school but cant find internship.

branderson925

Bumppppppp

engineering?

idk im tryin to figure out which schools to apply to and i have pretty much the same stats as u w/ about 10 APs. I have some of the same schools on my list and for some reason think that all of them are going to be a reach (john hopkins, usc, ucla) but im tryin to be optimistic. Yea and i agree w/ what some others have posted that a 2100+ SAT would be helpful. I'm tryin to do the same for the october one.

branderson925

yeah i agree i have reaches but idk im studying my heart out for october...possibly a 2200+

par72

Might want to look at Holy Cross-similar to Boston College.