Everyone: Where shoud I apply to? Personal Opinions Welcome

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>I know you get a lot of these mails so ill make this brief</p>

<p>I am an indian (born in America but parents are from India) who resides in Louisiana and goes to a famous/incredibly hard boarding school named Choate Rosemary Hall (in the same league as Andover and Exeter)…nothing else of worthy note no siblings at anywhere (except BU), no legacies</p>

<p>Academics
SATI: 1410 (740 M, 670 V)
SATII: 730 writing
690 Math 1C
660 Math IIC
650 Chemistry</p>

<p>GPA: Freshman and Sophmore year: 4+ GPA at a local private school here in louisiana (best in the parish) and took pretty hard classes and was top in my class. I took a varied courseload and thus when the classes at the school ran out, i took classes at a local university (University of Louisiana) (Classes were Bio, Calculus 2, College Enlgish 200) and got another slate of 4.0…i was accepted to Choate and entered as a junior…</p>

<p>Junior year (Choate): Junior year i took AP Chem, English 300, AP Statistics, Spanish 200, and American History…the result wasnt what i wanted but i improved steadily each term…i ended up with a 2.81 unweighted GPA and a 3.01 Weighted GPA</p>

<p>Senior year (Choate): Senior year (currently) i took Honors American Political Institutions (evolves into AP Gov), British Literature, Honors Anatomy and Physiology, Spanish 300, AP Macroeconomics (evolves into AP Micro), and a directed study in Dynamic Modeling (math/comp sci course)…this term i earned a 3.5 unweighted GPA and a 3.7 weighted GPA.</p>

<p>EC’s
I wont list all of them just the important ones</p>

<p>-over 600 total hours of volunteer hours at a local hospital, nursing homes, soup kitchens since freshman year
-learned to play 3 instruments myself (violin-4 years, tabla-3 years, trombone- 1yr) played in the band for two years…
-JV basketball (1yr), JV volleyball (1yr), Varsity Tennis (2yr), hopefully Varsity Vollyball this year
-Clubs: Participated in many including cultural and misc. ones but no leadership position besides participating in the Student Class Committee junior year…also was a member of National Honors Society
-Won the State Science fair and state poetry contest (3rd place) and won the state Air Force Award for my science project
-My main EC is probably heavily politically campaigning for candidates such as John Kerry and Bobby Jindal</p>

<p>I am applying ED to PENN and i would like to have your opinions for admission. I am also applying regular to tulane, vanderbilt (both of whom have seemed to take a liking to flooding my email and mail box), georgetown, lehigh, and BU…on a side note i am currently involved in a political project with professors from Tulane, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, and Penn…i wonder if that helps any. Am i on par with these schools and/or where else is good?</p>

<p>Thanks for reading and opinions are welcome</p>

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<p>Bump…help my cause please</p>

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<p>Honestly, I don’t think you’re into Penn, but I think you have a good chance at Vandy (indians are actually an URM there)</p>

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<p>I probably would say the same…but any opinions on the rest? What about other college suggestions?</p>

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<p>you shouldn’t have too much trouble getting into Lehigh, Vandy, BU, and Tulane.</p>

<p>some more good ones you should check out are Rice, Duke, Cornell, Columbia, and NYU</p>

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<p>well, id say you should be able to get on the wait list at penn, probably top 1%. There’s some scholarship at Tulane that you should be able to get easily at a school like Choate. And if you stay away from time-wasting activities like playing poker, you could probably get your grades up. But what do I know, good luck</p>