chance for lower ivies and others?

Applying to College
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<p>like:
Johns Hopkins
Northwestern
Cornell
U Penn
Dartmouth
Brown</p>

<p>4.0 gpa unweighted
4.43 weighted</p>

<p>4 on ap comp sci (sophomore)
5 on ap calc ab (sophomore)</p>

<p>Sophomore grades (fall and spring):

  1. chem honors: A
  2. English 2H: A-
  3. Spanish 3H: A
  4. Ap Comp Sci: A-
  5. Ap Calc AB: A
  6. Track: A+</p>

<p>fall junior grades:

  1. ap chem: A
  2. ap stats: A
  3. english 3h: A
  4. spanish 4 ap: A
  5. ap calc bc: A-
  6. ath/track: A+</p>

<p>Total AP classes all 4 years: 10 or 11</p>

<p>SAT:
780 math
760 writing
630 cr :cry:
total – 2170</p>

<p>activities: many officer positions, track: hurdles, frc robotics team. very well rounded</p>

<p>community service: over 400 hours so far. many awards for service.</p>

2

<p>Well, you obviously have very good grades and test scores and you seem to be pretty confident about the strength of your ECs (you said you’re “very well rounded”).</p>

<p>The only thing you need to worry about is your CR score. Are you planning to retake?</p>

<p>If not, given these current grades and test scores, assuming that you’re essay is reasonably good, I think you still have a fair chance.</p>

3

<p>What’s your class rank? Your A pluses in athletics will be backed out so it won’t be a 4.0.</p>

<p>The CR score will make ivies very tough. More of a shot at JHU and maybe a land grant school at Cornell.</p>

4

<p>class rank = 1 out of 800</p>

<p>4.0 is straight A’s (doesn’t matter + or -)</p>

5

<p>Colleges recalculate GPAs, so what it reads at your school is not the issue.</p>

<p>Great rank obviously, spend the time to bring up CR by 100 points. Keep in mind the vast majority of valedictorians are rejected by even the " lower" ivies, and most unhooked candidates accepted are top 2 in their class. So the score matters a lot.</p>