Chances for ED and RD

MustangBlue
Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:55:13 +0000

Junior year of High School completed-

Overall unweighted HS GPA: 3.3

Freshman year I had a 2.6 GPA due to family issues and general lack of focus. Since then, I have been transferred into a private christian school. I improved my GPA to 3.3 sophomore year, and then 3.6 junior year. I plan for strait A’s with one AP class, giving me a 4.17 year to toss into the average.



AP Classes: AP Biology

Honors Classes: Two



SAT Reasoning Scores: Critical Reading- 680 Math- 640 Writing- 600 Overall- 1920

I plan to retake the SAT reasoning and hope to improve Critical reading to 700+, I plan on making the writing bump up to 700. I recieved an 8 on my essay because I didn’t have enough time to finish.

SAT Subject tests: None yet, taking one in October.



ECs:

Jazz Band 5-9th grade.

Concert Band 4-9th grade.

Tenor Saxophone player for 8 years.

Varsity Golf- Junior year, continuing senior year

Varsity Soccer- Sophomore year

National Honor Society of High School Scholars

Journalism/Publications for two years, and continuing senior year and throughout college. High school online newspaper won the NSPA national Pacemaker award for high school newspapers while I was a staff writer. Pacemaker finalist my junior year. Featured on the High School Journalism “National Edition” junior year for a published article (meaning I have an article published on a national medium, and many published pieces of writing on my high school’s online and print edition newspapers). One of my articles recieved Honorable Mention at the NSPA competition.



Refs:

Excellent ref from Bible Teacher.
Excellent ref from Journalism/English teacher.



Essay: Not to seem pompous, but I am an excellent writer, and expect my essay to be superb. I plan to write about my struggle throughout high school from freshman year to my very focused current year, my experiences in golf, publications, my trip to New York for Columbia University’s annual journalism conference, and my social experiences as a Disk Jockey.



I have a 3-day suspention on my record because I accidentally walked into the girl’s bathroom. This was during the last month of the school year and affected my sophomore grades big time.



With all of that said, what are my chances on ED with the stats I have now with a 650+ SAT2 score and a strait A’s report card at the time of application?

What are my chances of regular decision with a 2100 SAT1 score (after my retake), improved GPA with strait A’s in the first semester of senior year, good SAT 2 scores, and a great essay?

Thanks in advance.