Crap GPA...

shiron766
Sun, 22 Jun 2014 03:58:56 +0000

Hello,

Tomorrow’s the last day of 10th grade for me. With all the grades in, I’d really appreciate some review of my chances for the Ivy Leagues. My dream school is MIT, and other schools that I’m looking at are Yale, Harvard, Cornell, Brown, UPenn (but mainly UPenn ).

I thought I was doing pretty well with my GPA, but it turns out my GPA’s pretty average at my school…
I was wondering what you guys thought.

Stats:

9th Grade:

AP Biology (3 on AP test, idk why )

AP World History (again, another 3 )

Honors World Literature

Honors Spanish 2

Math Analysis/PreCalculus (graded on the AP scale at my school)

Beginner TV

Intermediate TV

All A’s, 5.04/5.30 Weighted, 4.0/4.0 Unweighted

10th Grade:

AP Environmental Science (most likely a 4/5)

AP Chemistry 1 (at my school you take AP test after 2nd part of chem course)

AP Computer Science (definitely a 5)

AP US History (definitely a 5)

AP Calculus BC (definitely a 5)

Honors American Literature

Honors Spanish 3

All A’s, 4.97/5.30 Weighted, 4.0/4.0 Unweighted


By the end of senior year, I will have taken 19 AP courses.


SATS:

Haven’t taken official SAT 1

SAT II Math Level 2: 750, 800 (retook the test)

SAT II Biology M: 800

SAT II World History: 690 (if you haven’t noticed, history’s not exactly my strongsuit)

SAT II US: took it couple weeks ago, 700-750 range

Extracurriculars:

Tennis for over 10 years; JV/Varsity of school team from 9-12 grade (you stay on the team)

Chess Club

Math Competition Team

Computer Science Club

Science Olympiad

VOICES Speech and Debate

Film Production Club (founder and president)

UNICEF Club (president)

Volunteer weekly at local hospital 4 hours a week: 500+ hours by senior year

Avid filmmaker (hopefully I win some film festivals and such)

I just wanted to see how I’m doing throughout my high school journey. I would like to know what I should improve; any suggestions, comments, or criticism would be nice.

EDIT: I should add on that I’m an Asian male (affirmative action woohoo), and that I have a sibling dynasty at MIT