Help for a close friend? CHANCES

<p>Posting for a friend. Please reply.</p>

<p>Background: Male, White, California
High School: Large competitive public school (part of the top 50 in the nation)</p>

<p><em>NOTE: He screwed up majorly freshman year, and has been working his butt off ever since. Without freshman year grades, his GPA is a 4.0, 4.4</em></p>

<p>GPA: 3.76, 4.12
Rank: 22/570 (top 4%)
SATI: 740 Math, 760 Critical Reading, 750 Writing (2250)
SAT II’s: 800 Math IIC, 800 French, 760 Biology M
AP’s: 5 Calculus BC, 5 Chemistry, 5 Biology, 5 French Language, 4 English Language, 4 Macroeconomics, 3 Statistics</p>

<p>Community College GPA: 4.0
Elementary Statistics and Probability (5 credits)
General Psychology (4 credits)
Human Anatomy and Physiology (4 credits)
Principles of Macroeconomics (4 credits)</p>

<p>School EC’s:
President of the Speech and Debate Team for 2 years
President of Class ASB for 2 years
Founder and President of Young Democrats Club for 3 years
Secretary French Honor Society for 2 years
Member of National Honor Society for 3 years
Member of Student Council 2 years
Member of CSF 4 years
Varsity Track and Field 3 years
300+ Community Service hours</p>

<p>Other EC’s:
Principal Clarinetist in Youth Orchestra 2 years
Eagle Scout (? years)</p>

<p>Awards:
National Merit Semifinalist (230 on PSAT)
AP Scholar with Distinction
AIME Qualifier
State awards for Speech and Debate</p>

<p>Summer Activities:
COSMOS UC Davis
Intensive French Summer Study Program
Europe Tour with Youth Orchestra
Asia Tour with Youth Orchestra
Research Internship at Santa Clara Univerisity, Microbiology</p>

<p>Special Activities:
Organized blood drive in connection with CSF and Red Cross Club
Foreign Exchange Program in France for 1 semester</p>

<p>Work Experience:
5 Hours at local store for 2 years (not in the summers)–college savings</p>

<p>Colleges:
ED at Princeton
Brown, Cornell, Harvard, Penn, Yale
Stanford
UC’s: UCB, UCLA, UCSD</p>

<p>Possible ones:
Northwestern, Duke, UChicago</p>

<p>Great stats. But your friend needs a hook, and those are the same stats that are in the rejection and the accepted pile, so I do not know what to say…</p>

<p>except applying to Northwestern and UChicago should really get her or him in to one of those schools</p>

<p>Northwestern: 50 percent acceptance rate
UChicago: I know that it is higher than 40 percent.</p>

<p>Thank you so for for your response!</p>

<p>remember studentforever, those stats for early decision</p>

<p>Um, he’s only applying early to Princeton?</p>

<p>bump bump…</p>

<p>studentforever:</p>

<p>UCB/UCLA: Match
UCSD: Safe Match</p>

<p>Thanks for the help, flopsy</p>

<p>bump…</p>