<p>Colleges of Interest (from least to most likely that I will get in): Columbia, Brown, Stanford, UChicago, Pomona, Barnard, Haverford, Reed, Macalester, Pitzer, Whitman, Bennington, Lewis & Clark, Willamette, UC Santa Cruz
High School Grad Year: 2013
GPA: 4.0 (unweighted), 4.5ish I think (weighted)
SAT Scores: 2150 (800 Critical Reading, 690 Math, 660 Writing - embarrassing)
AP/Honors/Running Start Classes:
Honors Math - 9th-10th
Honors English - 9th-10th
AP World (4) - 10th
AP Macro/Micro Econ - 11th
AP US History - 11th
AP Music Theory - 12th (not taken yet)
AP Psychology - 12th (not taken yet)
AP Environmental Science - 12th (not taken yet)
AP English (not sure which yet) - 12th (not taken yet)
AP Comparative Government - 12th (not taken yet)
Honors Orchestra - 12th (not taken yet)
Running Start (RS) Pre-Calculus 2 - 11th
RS English Compostion - 11th
RS Expository Writing - 11th
RS Rock Climbing - 11ths
RS Astronomy - 11th
RS Calculus - 11th
RS Sociology - 11th
RS Self Defense - 11th</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:Orchestra, SEPIA (Autism Awareness) Club, Key Club, Tutor at Kumon, volunteer tutor with Catholic Community Services, Violin, youth symphony, Pacific Northwest Film Scores (violinist)
Leadership Positions: Orchestra concert master (10th)
Volunteering: 101.25 hours and counting, SEPIA club, volunteer tutoring, Stories of Autism
Awards: Knight Valor Community Service (100+ Hours) Award, Most Inspirational Musician (2 times), Citizenship Award</p>
<p>Running Start… you must live around Seattle, too?</p>
<p>The fault of your application appears to be a lack of something extraordinary. The amount of APs you’ll have taken is impressive, but relatively average in comparison to the rest of the applicants at your top schools. A 2150 will not rule you out for any schools listed, but it won’t impress admissions officers at your top five. You do, of course, have the opportunity to take it a second time and do better-- math is probably a matter of simple mistakes and a tough curve, and I’d venture to say that writing is the most easily remedied section of the SAT. Volunteering is similarly on par with other Ivy-level applicants. Should you bump your SAT score, keep up the community service hours, and perhaps try a job/internship, I’d say you’ve got good odds of getting in to at least one of your reaches come application time… otherwise, I wouldn’t hold your breath for any, but they’re not unreasonable.</p>
<p>Reaches: Columbia, Stanford, UChicago, Brown, Pomona
Solid matches: Barnard, Haverford, Reed
Don’t think you’ll have trouble: Macalester, Pitzer, Whitman, Bennington, Lewis & Clark, Willamette, UC Santa Cruz</p>
<p>I switched around the order of your reaches a bit. Brown and UChicago tend to be a bit more volatile in terms of accepting students based on something they see beyond rigor/SAT scores than Stanford, at least given the results on this board, so I reckon you’ll have better odds with those.</p>