<p>I am concerned that your senior year schedule may hurt you with college admissions. Have you looked on college websites to see how many years of foreign language, science, and history/social sciences they recommend? Please, please make sure that you have at least taken all of the courses that are required for Madison, so you have a high quality match school. </p>
<p>Virtually every college fair we attended had a college rep who said that they wanted to see students challenge themselves through high school, taking the most challenging schedule possible. As far as I can tell, you are taking only AP Lit and AP Calc as your academic subjects during senior year. My feeling is that you would be far better served in the admissions process, particularly given the quality of schools you hope to attend, if you beefed up your senior year schedule. Have you talked to your guidance counselor? Is it too late for you to add history, science, and/or a foreign language? If this sounds like too much, or if it’s too conventional a schedule for you, does your school offer classes in Psychology, Economics, Comp Gov? Or could you perhaps take more college classes in humanities subjects that interest you?</p>
<p>You could also ask Stanford students and your fellow applicants on the board what their senior year schedules looked like so you would have some basis for comparison.</p>
<p>Please use the CC search function to find the threads about “Andison,” a stellar applicant (now at MIT) who ended up taking a gap year because he didn’t get into any of the colleges to which he applied. I’m not saying this will happen to you, but Andi’s posts were a real shocker for my family and resulted in my kids including several truly safe schools on their lists. And as everyone else here has said, Wharton isn’t a safe school for anyone. Please have your GC show you a scattergram for students from your school who have been accepted and rejected from Stanford, Penn, and perhaps Madison by GPA and SAT.</p>