<p>School: very competitive public, top 50 in nation
Location: Bethesda, MD
Ethnicity: white, Jewish</p>
<p>Stats:
GPA - unweighted: 3.31 weighted 3.85 (around 3.1 uw freshman and sophomore year, 3.8 uw junior year so very large trend up)
SAT- 2170/1480 (800 Reading, 680 Math, 690 Writing, plan on retaking for 2250+)</p>
<p>SAT II - 730 Lit, 720 World
AP’s - World: 4, English Lang: 5, Psychology:4, taking AP Environmental Science and AP English Lit next year, as well as college course in International Relations at University of Maryland</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
semester abroad in Israel at Alexander Muss Institute
Israel correspondent for JVibe Magazine
volunteer with First Tee Organization
JYPI (Jewish Youth Philanthropy Institute 20+ hours)
volunteer at Ronald McDonald House
Model UN (3 years)
hopefully Varsity Golf senior year
coached kids basketball team
worked as caddy, taught kids golf, and worked in golf store
University of Maryland Young Scholars program as Senior
hopefully National Merit Scholarship Finalist (got a 227)
volunteer at Camp Shriver, Special Olympics camp (35+ hours)
probably more, cant remember off the top of my head</p>
<p>Hopeful schools:</p>
<p>Cornell
Northwestern
Emory
Michigan
NYU
Maryland (in state)
Tulane
Wisconsin
Pittsburgh
Penn State
Syracuse</p>
<p>I know my GPA is killing me, but I have a large trend up and have taken mostly honors and AP’s throughout high school. </p>
<p>You’re goal for the SAT seems good…it’ll put you in a better position at all of the schools you’re considering. Your awards and ecs seem good! You have a good amount of community service which is always a good thing. Do you have any idea what you might major in?</p>
<p>You’re screwed. Maybe if you did some work freshman and sophomore year, you’d have a shot…Cornell my ass! And colleges read through that semester abroad where you did absolutely nothing…good job screwing up your life!</p>
<p>Make a 4.0 senior first semester and you should see your chances improve, but I have to say anything <3.5 UW definitely hurts an application alot (at the schools you’re applying to)</p>
<p>thanks other than jkterrapin, hes just bitter cuz i got a higher sat score. not sure what i want to major in yet, but thinking about law school after undergrad</p>
<p>High Reach
Cornell
Northwestern
Emory
Michigan
NYU
Penn State University Park</p>
<p>Low Reach
Wisconsin
Pittsburgh</p>
<p>Match
Syracuse
Tulane</p>
<p>Safety
Maryland (in state)</p>
<p>I don’t think you completely f*ucked up, but your grades really will hurt you. I would have put Penn State University Park as a low reach, but your gpa is low and their admission decision is 2/3 based on gpa. Anyway, best of luck.</p>
<p>I think jec’s evaluation is probably about right, perhaps a little too pessimistic, if your scores improve and your senior grades continue to show a positive trend. (Perhaps “jkterrapin” was offended that you are using Maryland as your safety school.)</p>
<p>well jkterrapin is a friend of mine, hes just being annoying. i know that those schools are all reaches, im hoping they will see my trend up and realize that my gpa would have been higher had i tried - i also have more ec’s that i forgot about like hebrew school confirmation and various youth groups</p>
<p>I think you have a really good chance at all of your schools except for the first three (Cornell definitely =/)
but i think that Emory would be a realistic reach school for ya.</p>
<p>PS, although this might just be a rumor, but I heard that a lot of the upper-level schools sometimes choose against Jewish people because there is such a large population of them in those schools
that’s just in case you were planning to write an essay about it
but that might be totally untrue - just what i heard.</p>