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Since I'm a home schooled student, I have been taking college courses at two local universities for the last 3 years. I have 65 credits thus far.
ACT: 32
SAT chem: 800
SAT Math lvl 2: 750
GPA (uw): 3.94
College Courses:
Calc 1 A-
Calc 2 A
Calc 3 A
Spanish 101 A
Spanish 102 B+
Spanish 201 A
Spanish 202 A
College Chem A
College Chem2 A
Eng. A
Economics A
Physics A
Life Science1 A
Life Science2 A
World History A
US History1 A
US History2 A
Primary ECAs(have more, but these are my main ones):
Tennis (ranked top 30 in region and top 15 in state for boys 16s and 14s)
Research(top ECA) for 2 years under professor at local university (won University award for $1000 and Co-author of published paper)
Violin- participated in a city wide Orchestra
Volunteer work- over 200 hrs
You're looking good at most, except perhaps for the likes of MIT, Stanford, and the ivies. Come late march, you're probably going to stare at a lot of acceptances though. You have a very good shot at Penn and Duke. Chance me!! Je suis rather nervous as well.