Chicago, John Hopkins, Princeton, U Mich....Chance me plz. :)

setiaabhik · 08-10-2008, 08:11 AM

Chance Me Please

I've studied in an international school in India

Some of my stats:

SAT Subject Test: Math 2(760), Chemistry(800)
Sat 1: Math(770) Verbal (730) Writing (700) : 2200
Unweighted GPA: 3.75

ECs:

Dorm Council*2

Class President*1

Dorm President*1

Member of the student council for 3 semesters.

Member of the National Society of High School Scholars.

Community Service all 4 years: 75-100 hours a year, Teaching English at an orphanage during the vacations( 4 times)

Mathematics Internship at school (10,11,12)

Chemistry Internship at school(10,11,12)

Mathematics and Chemistry Tutor at school (9,10,11,12)

Member of the Debate Club, Winner of a 3 state Debate.

Scholastic Achievement Award ( 4 years)

Winner of School Math Competition

Runner Up in a statewide Math Competition

Best Language Student(9th grade)

Member of the Varsity Tennis Team

The hardest possible workload at my school

6 Ap Classes Senior Year

4 Ap Classes Junior Year

Microecon 5, Statistics 4 so far in the AP's

I am considering applying to Univ of Chicago, Northwestern Uni and John Hopkins as my reaches, Michigan Ann Arbor as my Target and U Illinois as a safety. Do i have a good chance of getting in my reach's or target?

I want to Apply to Princeton, but is there any chance whatsoever?

Also if you could recommend any more good places for an econ undergrad, it will be greatly appreciated.

setiaabhik · 08-10-2008, 09:08 AM

recommend good safety schools as well!!

joelyam2 · 08-10-2008, 10:02 AM

I think that you have a chance at Princeton, but i must warn you about your GPA )= . I would say that your a match for the others. Maybe a slight reach for JHU and Chicago. But good luck, I think that you can get into all 3. Try really hard to get staright A's for the first semester senior year.

peachsnapple · 08-10-2008, 10:05 AM

It's a little early to tell because your GPA can rise or decline dramatically when you reach junior and senior years because of AP.
You are definitely on the right track, but since you have time i would retake the 2200 if you're really looking at princeton.
UMich - Safety
JHU - Match - extremely slight reach
Chicago - Match - extremely slight reach
Princeton - you have a good of a chance as anyone would. you have great volunteering/working experience and your grades have the potential of being great. your SATIIs are really good. I do believe you are lacking in clubs but your ECs overall are fantastic.
you already have some safeties and i would recommend applying also to Cornell as a possible safety. Why don't you look at MIT; you are very science/math focused and you could use more reaches like Princeton and MIT

setiaabhik · 08-10-2008, 10:25 AM

thanks a lot for that, i appreciate it. thing is my weighted gpa comes out to be like a 4.4 or something and shouldn't go down. Also, isn't cornell too good to be a safety for anyone??

peachsnapple · 08-10-2008, 10:37 AM

cornell is easy to get in and you have very excellent stats especially if they continue to rise
i really don't know what kinda college you're looking for or where but here are some other safeties: RIT, UCSD (have you considered looking at the UCs), WashU

setiaabhik · 08-10-2008, 10:40 AM

Thanks again, I'm looking for any good college with a good econ program for a safety...would u illinois urbana champagne qualify as a good one? some like it would be great...