Do Interships and Academic Awards offset extra curriculr/leadership?

Colleges & Universities Princeton University
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<p>Hey guys,</p>

<p>I am currently a Junior in high school and need help in admissions in college.</p>

<p>Currently my only “extra curriculars” are: VASTS Program (Virginia Aerospace and Technology Scholar), A award for 3rd place in Science Fair (Districts), a summer internship at NASA Langley and mostly a internship for engineering at a local college for the summer. In addition, I have the typical academic awards (AP Scholar w/ Honors, NHS, honor role, and other small school academic awards) and I also have the usual volunteering at local hospital (100+ hours so far).</p>

<p>Other than those mentioned above I don’t have the “blow you away extra curricular”…so I was wondering if those activities mentioned above with a end of year 4.1 weighted GPA (3.4-3.5 unweighted), and a 6 AP and all honors course load, and a SAT score of 2100+ or a ACT score of 31+ will put me in good shape next year for admissions at Princeton (ED)?</p>

<p>plus: forgot to add, I am from Virginia, to be specific NOVA (FairFax County)…</p>

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<p>Nothing offsets anything at Princeton. They have enough stellar applicants to fill their classes with people who have strong credentials in every way.</p>

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<p>^I strongly disagree.</p>

<p>I have met many people here at Princeton who had one part of his/her application offset every other part of the application just because it was so impressive (ie: medalist at an international science olympiad competition, winner of national speech competitions, etc.).</p>

<p>In no way does one need to be strong “in every way” to get into Princeton. I was never president of any organization, nor was I involved in any sport or musical group while in high school. I still got in.</p>

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<p>Random- But you had a SAT I score of over 2200 and a high GPA right?</p>