Chance this junior for Harvard

random747
Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:55:47 +0000

… just kidding.

Pretty competitive public school in US: Ranked high because of the courses it offers, not necessarily because of how well the students score .

Rank: 1-2 /430

GPA: My school’s GPA system isn’t out of a 4.0, and I don’t know how to convert my GPA. If I calculate it using a proportion, it comes out to be 3.96/4.0

Unweighted Average ~97

Didn’t take any AP’s freshman or sophomore year.

AP Classes: Chem, English, USH

Likely Senior Year AP’s: Calc BC, Bio, Physics C, English, Gov, Spanish or Econ, (Psych maybe)

SAT I: 1530/2330 (Took in October)

PSAT: 206 (Took after the SAT I… was pretty sick(literally) and bombed chance at NMSF. Does it look bad that I did worse on this even though I took it after the SAT I?)

SAT II’s: Planning on taking Math II, US History, Chem, Maybe Physics. ( Pretty confident that I will do well in all of these, but this is pure speculation.)

EC’s

Volunteer Service: I have volunteered 50+ hours at a local nursing home and 150+ hours at a nearby hospital. It was fun, especially because of the amount of interaction I had with the patients. It wasn’t an internship or anything though. I did things like transporting blood, running the gift shop, discharges etc. I didn’t observe a surgery or anything like that.

Freshmen-Junior Mentoring(11): Pretty self-explanatory. I’m helping a freshman get through freshman year

Lincoln-Douglas Debate (9-11): Competed at JV and Varsity levels, have broken into elimination rounds a few times. Not at the elite level though (no TOC bid rounds, for those of you who know what that is)

State Level Debate (9-11): Qualified to the State Tournament. I’m not going to say anything here because everyone knows that state level debate is pretty meaningless.

Math Team: (11) We really didn’t have a running team until this year, but we do have a lot of talented math students, so we’ve won some local awards. (I doubt that I will even mention this honestly)

Academic Team/ Quiz Bowl: (9-11) Co-founder: This is probably the area in which I have devoted the most amount of hours. I’m one of those people who loves reading random Wikipedia articles (hehe). Our team was non-existent until my freshmen year, so we’ve made giant strides up to this point. We qualified to nationals, so we’ll see how well we can do there. This is definitely the area I’m the most passionate about.

Technology Challenge: (9-11) If you haven’t noticed already, I’m a total nerd. So I’m more than eager to participate in this challenge(I don’t want to say what it is specifically though). Basically, every year each school statewide is presented with some sort of goal that they have to accomplish. Whoever participates must build a mock-business, including marketing etc. (the activity isn’t just for programmers, which is definitely a positive). It’s really cool because at the end of the year we are scored in each of these different areas, and we can win awards for making video games.

Chance Me For:

Yale
Columbia
Rice
Emory
Stanford
UChicago

Am I aiming too high?