Chances @ Some Pretty Good Schools... Please Help!

danielhstennis08
Mon, 07 May 2007 21:24:29 +0000

I go to one of the top high schools in south carolina, but I don’t know if colleges would know that… I am almost done my junior year…

GPA
Unweighted- ~3.9
Weighted (SC grading system)- ~4.8
Class Rank- 7or8/210

SATs/AP
PSAT- Math- 76 CR- 65 Writing- 61
SAT- Math- 780 CR- 610 Writing- 600 (I only took it once and I’m planning on taking beginning of next year… I should get a 1450 on Math/CR combined… and over 700 on writing… I think I can do it… )
SAT 2s (projected)- Math 2- 800, Chemistry- 700-750, Biology- 600-700
APs: Sophomore Year: AP Calculus BC- 5, AP Physics C: Mechanics- 4
Junior Year (projected): 5’s in all AP Chemistry, AP Biology, and AP Psychology

I have taken 5 AP classes and 13 honors classes

Senior Year Classes:
AP English (lang and lit), AP American Government, Math 120: Prob and Stats, Math 220: Advanced Statistics (I might take AP Statistics exam), honors German 4, and US History…

Extra:
Math Team- 9, 10, 11 (co-captain)
Academic Team- 9, 10, 11
German Club- 9, 10, 11 (co-president)
Beta Club- 10, 11
Mu Alpha Theta- 9, 10, 11
Interact Club- 10
National Society of High School Scholars- 11
Varsity Tennis Team- 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 (3 time region champions- I play #3 spot)
ALL STATE MATH TEAM (top 30 in math in SC)- 10, 11

Awards:
Many math awards for various state competitions (most are team awards)
Clemson Biology Merit Exam- Honorable Mention (top 10 out of at least 200) in 10th and 11th
Graduation Usher (top 10 in junior class)
Received National Merit letter
Furman Scholar, CofC Scholar, and Wofford Scholar
Top 50 state rank in tennis (finalist or champion in a few tournaments)
and a few other little things that i can’t think of…

Work Experience:
I started up my own tennis academy a year ago and it is still running. I have had up to 30 kids in it. They all are very pleased.
I also started working at Clemson Opthamology as an assistant.

Summer:
This summer I got accepted to a fully paid NSF funded 2 week research program at clemson…
I will also be volunteering at a hospital every day…

Schools I am applying to:

Duke (top choice)
Emory
Johns Hopkins
WashU
Brown
Northwestern
Vanderbilt
Clemson Honors College (safety)

Please tell me what you think my chances are!

and be sure to send a link to your chances page or something like that… i would be more than happy to help you out as well!