Can I get in?

jungle17
Thu, 27 Sep 2012 01:04:05 +0000

Hey guys I am new to this and I don’t quite know how it works but I want to get into the top schools like Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, Wash. U. St. louis, Cornell, Brown, Stanford, U Penn, Northwestern, Columbia, Duke, UC Berkeley, UCLA, USC, I know these are like the “gods” of the colleges but please tell me if you guys think I can get in. Also can you guys tell me what colleges I can get into?

GPA: 4.9 (weighted) and 3.9 (Weighted)
ACT: 34
Sat II: Bio (780), Math II C (800), Chemistry (770), U.S. History (750)
APs: 14 including senior year. the 7 before senior year are APUSH (5), BIO(5), CALC(5), Envi Sci(4), English 3(4), Spanish 4(4), Chem(4)
Rank: maybe 1% to 5%
Awards: Honorable Mention at LA fair, National Commendation, AP Scholar with Distinction
Activites: Internship at UCLA (two years), founder of website, dog walker in animal shelter, an engineering team project leader, science bowl captain, science olympiad president, American Heart Associatino school event organizer, Summer Camp volunteer to help disabled children for two years, library assistant…etc.

LOR: I can get two medium to great ones and one from either a NASA engineer or UCLA professor,

So what do you guys think?

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