<p>Just to let you know, this is my friend’s account. I’m completely new to collegeconfidential.com, so I would really appreciate your feedback on where I stand with my chances.</p>
<p>Public School
California
White Male
Major: English
UWGPA: 3.77
WGPA: 4.17
UCGPA: 4.2
Rank: 20/518 (top 4%) ELC Status
SAT: 2260 (740 Math, 760 Critical Reading, 760 Writing)
SAT II’s: 780 Math IIC, 760 US History, 720 Chemistry, 630 French
AP’s: 5 Calculus AB, 5 Chemistry, 4 English Language, 4 US History</p>
<p>College Classes:
(2006)Introduction to Shakespeare A/A
(2006)Introduction to Poetry A/A
(2005)Elementary Statistics and Probability A/A
(2004)General Psychology A/A
Community College GPA: 4.0</p>
<p>Awards:
Youth Orchestra Award 2004-2005
Youth Orchestra Award 2005-2006
1st Place Winner for a local poetry contest
AP Scholar with Honor </p>
<p>Activities:
-Founder and President of String Quartet, 2nd Violin
-Youth Orchestra 4 years
-Classical Composer 4 years
-Poetry 3 years
-Tutor in French, English, Chemistry 2 years
Violin, Piano, Cello 6+ years</p>
<p>Other Accomplishments:
-Organized 12 Benefit Concerts with String Quartet; raised over $48,000 (average of $4000 per concert). Donated to various charities and funds.
-Composed the music played for the benefit concerts</p>
<p>-Carleton College Summer Writing Program 2004
-Columbia Pre-College Summer Program 2005</p>
<p>Colleges:
Columbia (College)(ED)
Penn (CAS)
Cornell (CAS) (Legacy)
Brown
Dartmouth
Williams
Georgetown (College)
UCB, UCLA</p>
<p>Can you guys also help to suggest any safeties?</p>
<p>one thing that sticks out is that you are applying to schools smack in the middle of major cities (columbia, penn, georgetown), and also schools that are totally in the middle of nowhere (williams, dartmouth); tiny schools (williams) and enormous schools (ucla). stereotypically artsy/liberal schools (brown) and stereotypically preppy/conservative schools (georgetown).</p>
<p>what exactly are you looking for in a school?</p>
<p>I’m mainly looking for city-ish schools. Columbia is my #1 choice. It may seem like my choices are all over the place, but I like their English departments. The preppy/liberal thing doesn’t bother me too much. I’d rather have a medium sized school rather than a large school like the UC’s, but that wouldn’t hold me back from applying.</p>
Why does everyone have to know what specific mode of college they want to apply to? Why get all your eggs in one basket and then realize middle of Senior Year that you don’t want city schools. In the stock market the best way to play is to diversify, I think the same is in the college admissions market.</p>