How good are ECs?

<p>Basically, I have a 3.4 GPA as of this moment in my junior year.</p>

<p>My father died when I was entering ninth grade and I did really bad in ninth grade, ending with like a 82% average.</p>

<p>I took around 4-5 AP classes and I am taking after school classes at a community college - Physics II and Microbiology.</p>

<p>I was also accepted to the selective biotechnology research program in my school for my senior year, which is a dual enrollment class in which we drive to a lab and do research work.</p>

<p>I’m leaning towards a science degree and MBA dual.</p>

<p>I got a 700 on my Chemistry Subject test and 800 on MathII.</p>

<p>My ACT is a 34 and my SATs are ~2180 - still going to retake it to get a 2100+. I think my ACT is good though.</p>

<p>The main highlight of my education is the fact that I own and operate my own business. I do my own taxes, payments, etc. I established my company credit and I work with large companies to provide website
hosting and technical services as well as media application programming. The company is two years registered and is an incorporation.</p>

<p>I also have a part time job at a tutoring center and my duties include tutoring students ages 5-16 and data entry into a software.</p>

<p>I work at Best Buy as well on their technical team.</p>

<p>My GPA is on a highly upward trend. My GPA for the above college classes is 3.95.</p>

<p>I see that colleges like Johns Hopkins accept 15% of students in the 3.25-3.4 range
of GPA. Assuming that’s where I want to go ED, what are my chances?</p>

<p>Some other schools:</p>

<p>University of Pittsburgh - Second choice, I am in state</p>

<p>Carnegie Mellon - good
for business</p>

<p>Penn State University Park </p>

<p>Drexel University - easy fit?</p>

<p>Thanks guys!</p>

<p>Oh, I forgot to mention that I did bad in ninth grade directly because of my fathers death - my mom was sick and my father was very influential in my life as he had a PhD in msthematics and I excelled at math - I used to get all As in school before he died. Also, I am in Calculus I now and will be in BC Calc next year.</p>