Chances and Advice on Schools needed

skier13
Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:42:55 +0000

Hi,

Just another chances question. How do you think I stand at these schools? Be brutally honest if you have to. Also, do i have the right number of matches, safeties and reaches?

Anybodies advice or comments on the specific schools would be nice too.

Schools:
Safeties
University of Washington
University of Colorado Boulder

Matches?
US Naval Academy
US Air Force Academy
Notre Dame
Georgetown

Reaches:
Duke (My first choice)
Dartmouth (uncle went there)
Stanford
Yale
Upenn

Here are my stats:

Senior - Applying Regular Decision

SAT - 1520 (800M, 720V)
SAT II’s (havent taken them yet but hopefully i’ll get close)
Math 2C - 800 ish
Writing - 730ish
US History - 720ish
ACT - 31 Avg (will use SAT’s instead)

3.88 High school GPA UW at a VERY tough private prep school
Hopefully I’ll have the GPA to a 3.9 something by the end of the 1st term this year
Taking 2 out of the 3 Ap’s the school offers
AP BC Calculus
AP History
Top 10% of class

Sports
Freshman Football 9
Varsity Football 10-12
JV Tennis 9-10
Varsity Tennis 11-12 (State Champs)
Intramural Basketball 9,10,12
Ski Bus 9-12

Extra Curriculars
Community Service - Skiforall - (organization teaching developmentally disabled kids how to ski) 11-12
National Honor Society 10-12
Junior State – 9, 12

National Merit Commended Scholar
Who’s Who of High School Students in America Award
Award for excellence3 at the 39th Mission support squadron (work award)
President’s List 7 out of 9 Times (3.85 or above)

Job Experience (working since 14)
Military Summer hire for Air Force in Turkey - Summer of 9th and 10th grade. (Pretty unique experience) This is huge for the military stuff described.
Ski Instructor - 10th
Tennis Instructor - 11th

I might be forgetting a few things . . .

Anyways, thanks for the help. I appreciate it. Be honest I’d like some realistic evaluations. A lot of people i know seem too confident. Thanks