<p>Hey everyone, can I get a chanced at these schools? Air Force Academy, Cornell, GaTech, RHIT, and Purdue? These are all of the schools I am thinking of applying to right now, can you think of any others that are similar/ I have a good shot at? </p>
<p>Academic<br>
-Junior, High School ranked Tennessee’s fourth best high school in 2005 by U.S. News and World Report
-4.0 unweighted/ 4.359 weighted GPA
-International Baccalaureate curriculum
-Class rank: 9/~425, Top 2%
-Principal’s List all five semesters
-Completed AP Classes: Statistics, AP Exam: 5/5
-Current Classes: English III AP/IB, Pre-Calculus IB, Chemistry AP, American History AP/IB, French AP/IB, Biology AP/IB
-ScheduledClasses: English IV AP/IB, Calculus BC AP, Physics AP, Theory of Knowledge IB, Psychology AP/IB, History of the Americas IB, Advanced Biology IB
-SAT:
Composite 2190
Critical Reading 790
Writing 720 (11 Essay)
Math: 680</p>
<p>Athletic
-Varsity tennis first doubles team
-Active water/barefoot skier and licensed boat operator
-Avid backpacker, ~35 nights of backpacking, including an 80 mile, 12 day excursion at Philmont National Scout Ranch with a 14,000 foot summit
-SCUBA open-water diver certified through PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors)</p>
<p>Extra-curricular
-Current Life Scout, Eagle project scheduled for completion Spring 2007
-Eagle Project: construction of an outdoor classroom at a local middle school for special needs students, $2,000 donations-in-kind/cash already solicited
-Order of the Arrow inductee (Boy Scouts honor society)
-Venture Crew
-Mu Alpha Theta: daily math tutoring totaling 1.5 hours/ week
-French Honor Society
-Science Olympiad: robot ramble, circuit lab, Wright stuff, and remote sensing, and boomilever competitions
-Licensed amateur radio operator, I am teaching myself morse code</p>
<p>Leadership
-Senior Patrol Leader of Troop 137: organized and led weekly meetings for over 100 boys, planned and implemented troop activities and ceremonies through three assistants and eight patrol leaders
-Assistant Senior Patrol Leader: aided the current troop Senior Patrol Leader
-Patrol Leader: led a group of 15+ boys and managed all patrol activities
-Quartermaster: supervised all troop equipment and gear, including stoves, tents, canoes, sleeping bags, backpacks, apparel, awnings, trailers, boats, etc.
-Chaplain’s Aide at Philmont: led daily devotionals and fostered group coherency and morale
-Rotary Youth Leadership Academy inaugural delegate for Rotary District 6760</p>
<p>I applied to the AFA’s summer seminar already. No matter where I go I will likely do AFROTC, so could you give me some chances on an ROTC scholarship as well? </p>
<p>Other things to note: Taking SAT II in Chem. and Math lvl 2 right after my respective AP and IB tests in those areas, expecting to do well (700+). Retaking the SAT during spring break, that first sitting was cold, no studying, so my math score will definately go way up, it had been a while since I had had geometry/algebra.</p>
<p>I think thats it, sorry about the three posts, it cut me short after like 3 lines if I tried to do it all in one or two… Thanks for your honest opinion and any constructive criticism you have for me!</p>
<p>I think you have a very good shot at USAFA and any ROTC scholarships. (Make Eagle! and get your General class ham license–because that’s cool/looks good too.)</p>
<p>I’d reccomend the USAFA forum, for further advice.</p>
<p>p.s. Don’t bump your thread every couple hours.</p>
<p>OK, I want to pull this post back up to tack on one more school: Rice. Just found out about this school and it seems perfect, but can I get in? The only new bits of info. that I can add is that I got into the Academy Summer Seminar (Yeah!) and that my science olympiad team got second in regionals, and we are now going to state (I got two second place medals out of three events I ended up competing in). I will get my second SAT scores back on April 4.</p>
<p>One more question also. Assuming my SAT math doesnt go up (this is hypothetical I am hoping it does) or it just breaks 700 or something, will this hurt my chances at getting into engineering programs at schools. Will they look at me and say: “This kid wants to do something he is not suited for”? Engineering and or science is DEFINATELY what I want to do with my life, but the high reading just comes from being addicted to reading books from an early age, and I tend to overthink on the standardized math tests. If it is a significant disadvantage, would applying to science programs be better as they are slightly less mathematically inclined than engineering? </p>
<p>Harvey Mudd seems a bit on the small side, sure RHIT is small, but not THAT small. Plus I dont think my parents would want me to go all the way to California for college, although I wouldnt have a problem with it.</p>
<p>Can I get UC Berkeley and Johns Hopkins added to Rice? I am interested in their cognitive science majors. Only things I can think to add are 32 on the ACT, SAT went up to 2260, and second at science olympiads at state.</p>
<p>Also, I am looking at getting some kind of work experience this summer, and I would really like it to be some kind of scientific research or something. Any advice on that?</p>
We are small but there are 4 other colleges and two graduate schools right here. There are essentially 6,000 college students on the Claremont Consortium campus and interaction among the colleges is extremely high.</p>
<p>You might want to consider Carnegie Mellon- strong cognitive science program, and it’s fairly easy to take computer science classes no matter what your major. I think it’s around the size that you want, and tends more towards engineering/science school. There aren’t very many people declared with a primary major in cog sci (many computer science take it as a second major), so that might help you. As is, I think it would probably be a match/slight reach, with SAT I math being your biggest weakness because if its importance to the computer science part of the major.</p>
<p>you have an excellent chance at all of the schools you’ve just listed, some engineering college to consider: columbia (fu foundation), MIT (reach, but possible), cooper union, maybe RPI</p>