Chances at Competitive School

bushwarscorp
Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:04:44 +0000

So, I’m looking around at a variety of schools, sent in my applications, and nervously await they’re arrival. Can I get some estimates from the rest of y’all’s about what my chances are.

A little bit about me:

White Male, Upper-Middle Class, No financial aid needed. Attend an EXTREMELY competitive private school in Cleveland Ohio, and have mediocre to okay to mediocre grades.

Freshman year: 3.33 (Don’t judge me)

Sophmore Year: 3.67 (Improvement right… right… Please ) Additionally, one AP Class (Statistics)

Junior Year: 3.78 (We’re getting better)… More AP’s, (English, History, Math)

Senior Year: 4.0 (Finally, we have arrived) Crapload of AP’s (English, English, History, History, Math: NOT TYPOS, take more english and history classes. Still take Science, but I dropped foreign language, which was Chinese)

That creates a cummulative grade of 3.7ish…

Now test scores: SAT’s Writing (780) English (780) Math (760)… So 2320… ACT’s (32)… So I think they’re pretty good.

Finally EC’s (This is where it improves)

Debate 9,10,11,12 Team Captain senior year… Nationally recognized (12th in the country Junior Year, senior year, we’ll see but there’s a STRONG possibility of outdoing last year)

Mock Trial: 11,12 I’m Okay

Intramural Sports: 10,11,12 (I’m not that much of an athlete and by not much, I mean NOT)

House Captain: (I go to a pretentious school that has all harry potter fancy schmancy names, but whatever, it’s a significant honor).

There are more, but those are probably the most impressive…

Service:

Went to Honduras in my Sophomore and Junior years to help build an orphanage

Spent about 50+ hours of political volunteering

So I think that should be pretty good.

Awards/Commendations: Recognized for being the best English student in the school, the best Debater in the school, best Jazz Musician, and finally, one 3-4 essay contests, and placed 2nd in the Junior year speaking contest (It’s kinda a big deal)…

So, finally, the schools to which I applied, or at least the ones I’m have SIGNIFICANT questions about getting into

Brown University (Dream School, the rest are in no particular order)
Vassar
Hamilton
Colgate
UC - Berkeley
Bowdoin
Colby
Bates
Dartmouth
Rice

So those are the ones I’m SCARED about. Any imput about my questions. I serioussssssslsy appreciate it, thanks