<p>I wrote a terribly long post in the What are my chances thing, and people probably won’t read it. So i’ll just condense it here
White male, low to middle class, 1st gen college (except for 2nd cousin), CA)</p>
<p>9th: AP Human Geo; Algebra 2 H; English 9; AP Environmental; AP Music Theory; Spanish II</p>
<p>10th: AP Bio; Precalc H, English 10, PE/Health, Spanish 3, APWH</p>
<p>11th: AP Physics B, AP Calc AB, US History, English 11, Spanish 4, AP Psych</p>
<p>12th: AP Chem, AP Calc BC, AP compsci A, AP Econ (1 sem Macro 1 sem Micro), AP Eng Lit, AP German Lang</p>
<p>UWGPA 2.89 WGPA 3.44</p>
<p>SAT 2380 single try ACT 36 single try PSAT ~228 (natl merit)
Sat subject- Math 2c 800, German w/Listening 800, Biology M 640 (omg fail, idk what happened)</p>
<p>ECs- Harp 15 years - abrsm grade 8 w/distinction, art supplement (getting a rec from harp teacher); Crew 7 years - state + national competitions, Astronomy Club founder + president (4 years), NHS member (4 years), 600 hrs service total</p>
<p>AP scholar awards; probably great recs from AP calc aB + bc teacher, school counselor, and AP psych teacher (IS THIS CONSIDERED CORE?)</p>
<p>Grades aren’t because I’m lazy, but I just found standardized testing easy, I’m not really that smart. Kinda Upward trend. If you guys want a fuller explanation of stuff look here: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1224510-where-should-very-bad-student-strong-test-scores-apply.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1224510-where-should-very-bad-student-strong-test-scores-apply.html</a></p>
<p>Need target schools. Currently have 3 super-reaches: Stanford, UC Berkeley (instate), Dartmouth (should I apply ED? Friends with admissions officer/head, but might want to wait for upward trend senior year grades? again if you want to know more check the other thread)</p>