<p>Here are my credentials:
GPA- about 3.7 (my school does not rank due to the disadvantage it would pose for such small classes with a high percentage of qualified students)
SAT- 720 CR / 700 Math / 730 Writing
Courseload- toughest available courses available (my school offers no honors courses because of the student body of roughly 100)
Athletics-
Ski racing: all year round, Junior Olympian, top 40 in nation in 3 events, 24/7 commitment.
Lacrosse: 3 seasons of varsity (will be 4), leading scorer, multiple awards
Soccer: 3 years of varsity (will be 4)
Extracurricular- newspaper writer/editor, debate, working 40 hours a week in the summer since i was 14 (should be noted that my school is a winter sports academy and offers little to no extracurriculars, i have maxed out my involvement in my environment)
Comm. Service- working at an elderly hospital, habitat for humanity, working at a homeless shelter and tutoring underprivileged children, helping out locally on an organic farm.</p>
<p>*my school is unique in not being able to offer any honors courses, but students are regularly accepted as athletes and as students at some of the best schools in the country like dartmouth, brown, and harvard. i believe my advantage in applying to college is that i have pursued a passion to the fullest extent, focusing on it completely, something most kids look past while too interested in padding their applications with meaningless activities.</p>
<p>here are some schools i’m considering so far- i’m looking for some opinions as to whether they are reaches/matches/safeties. also, i would like to add more schools to the list which is mostly a result of advice from friends and family.</p>
<p>Dartmouth
Middlebury
Williams
U. of Denver
U. of Michigan Ann Arbor
USC
Northwestern
Vanderbilt
Bucknell
Harvard
American U.
UVA
Tufts
Georgetown
Duke (mother is alumnus)
Vanderbilt
Wake Forest</p>