Average to Good Student - Chances?

runfast2007
Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:32:44 +0000

Okay, here’s the deal.

I currently attend a somewhat large competitive school in Michigan and am wondering what my chances are at a variety of schools across the country.

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GPA: 3.65 (unweighted)
AP’s: Four classes by the end of high school (all 4’s and 5’s on tests)
-AP US History
-AP US Gov
-AP English Lit
-AP Enviro Sci
-AP Eng Lang (self-study)
Honors: Two honor’s classes
ACT: 29
SAT: 1880
*Thing to note - our school follows a block schedule, so we take 4 classes a day for half a year and then switch the classes for the second part of the year. All AP’s (except Stat and Comp. Gov [havn’t taken]) run for the full year meaning they each take 2/8 class periods.</stats>

<ec’s>
Trip to New Orleans for a week for Hurricane Katrina Relief (8 hrs/day…6 days)
Varsity Cross Country (4 years)
Track (4 years)
LinkCrew Freshmen Orientation (2 years) - Lead groups of incoming freshmen for a four hour orientation and then advise them all year
Youth Council (2 years) - In charge of planning events for youth in the city and doing volunteer work for city
Fiddlers ReStrung (4 years)-nationally renowned fiddle group that has played all over the country…at the White House, Kentucky, Tennessee, Good Morning America and many other places
Recycling Club (2 years)</ec’s>

Schools that I am possibly looking at:
Kalamazoo College (in state)
Michigan State (in state)
Boston University
Tulane
Tufts
DePauw
UC-? (suggestion as to which one?)
Denison
Kenyon
Oberlin
Rice
Rhodes
Colorado College
UC - Boulder
Boston College
Indiana University
UNC - Chapel Hill
NYU

i appreciate your honesty. i’m not high strung and won’t mind if you give honest feedback, in fact I would like it much more than crap sugar coated feedback. if you have any other schools to reccomend feel free. thanks so much :)