Chances for Babson Early Decision

c-unit
Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:33:28 +0000

I sent my Babson ED app in yesterday, looking for opinions on my chances:

HIGH SCHOOL ACADEMIC:
Weighted GPA: 95.9
Unweighted: 89.2
Rank: 15/92
Course load: All honors classes (when available) 17 total (not including APs) from freshman year to this year)

SATs & APs
SAT (1st try): 630/640/630 (1900)
SAT (2nd try): will get scores on the 20th
SAT II Math I: 700
SAT II Math II: 650
APs: 1 junior year English Lit (got a 3)
APs this year: 2 (Stat + Human Geo)
(my school only about 340 kids, doesn’t offer many APs)

ECs:
School:
Varsity tennis: #1 player on team 9,10,11,12 (top player in 15 school league 10 and 11)
Math team: 10,11,12 (I was the top scorer out of ~150 participants in 11th grade)
Civil rights team: 9,10,11,12
Jazz Combo: 10 (combo went on to represent school at districts)
Spanish Club: 12 (senior officer)

Outside School:
3 week internship at a web marketing firm
Headed up youth community tennis program (140 hours over 3 summers)
Volunteer for elderly: 20 hours

WORK:
Started two web businesses (Babson is big entrepreneur school, so this is a +)
Teach tennis for 26 hr/week for past three summers (3hr/week in winter)
Freelancer designer for web design business I started
Worked for the web marketing firm I interned at as a freelancer for a couple of months.

ESSAYS & RECS:
Essays were decent I think.
Recommendations are probably decent too, I really don’t know though.

OTHER STUFF TO CONSIDER:
My grandfather worked there for 10 years full time. He donated a good chunk of his paycheck to setting up a scholarship fund that now gives out about 20k a year.

I’ve visited several times: went on tour, interview, stayed over for a weekend w/ tennis team.

Tennis coach is interested.

So, what do you think?