Junior stats

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Well, now i feel like posting my stats here too since ppl give such good insights. keep in mind that i’m a junior and i do have a life…</p>

<p>School: Boston Latin School, founded 1635, very prestigious exam school with ties to Harvard (~40 kids accepted yearly, original school for BLS grads), Amherst (even share the same school colors!), and BU (gives many full rides)</p>

<p>Awards:
· MassStar Leadership Conference 2004- 1 sophomore per school
· Approbation Prize (A’s all year) 2003
· Modern Prize (A’s year average) 2002, 2003, 2004
· Fidelity Prize (express leadership) 2003
· National Latin Exam 3-yr. gold medallist
· Who’s who among high school students 04 (scam?), also National Honor
Roll, USAA, NSHSS (all scams though)
· National Youth Leadership Forum (NYLF) on Medicine- 2004- prestigious
career exploration program
· NU-Trons Robotics semifinalist at Annapolis - bronze medal
· President’s Education Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement-
2000
· Women’s Voice for Democracy essay contest 4th place- 2002
*National Honor Society nominee, pending finalist standing</p>

<p>Activities:
· Girl TV (BNN 9)- Co-host, in association with G.I.R.L.S. Initiative -staff
member, student overseer
· Boston Herald- Teen Correspondent
· Teen Voices national magazine- Editorial Board (work for $)
· NU-Trons Robotics- secretary and team member
· SAT Prep- Secretary/Treasurer
· School Magazine “The Register”- Art Assistant/Associate, Ed Board
· School Newspaper “The Argo”- A&E writer
· Red Cross Society- staff board
· Science Mentoring Program for science fair (worked in Harvard Med<br>
guy’s pathology lab)- 2004
· Science Olympiad- member/participant, group leader
· BPL (Boston Public Library) Teen Club founder 2004
· Gospel Choir- alto singer
· McCarthy Institute for Transition and Support- tutor in many subjects
· MassStar alumni leadership meetings 04
· Amnesty International volunteer
· Premed Society member
· International Showcase member
· HPREP (Health Professions Recruitment and Exposure Program) at
Harvard Medical School
· MFA (Museum of Fine Arts) Art Scholarship Program (on transcript!)
· Teen Ink Student Advisor
· Aspire Boston: high school member 2003-04
· Animal Care Team volunteer at Winslow farm Sanctuary- Norton, MA
· Classes at Harvard Extension/Summer (Psychology, neurobiology,
statistics and ethics) and MIT HSSP Program
<em>at least over 500 hrs. volunteer hrs now</em></p>

<p>Past Work/Volunteer:
‘Writer’s Workshop’ at UMass Boston- high school mentor (paid)
‘Chinatown Restaurant’ (dad’s) -front desk: take calls, orders, etc. (paid)
Museum of Science Boston- 150 hrs.
School library- library aid (35 hrs)
School main office- attendance collector (during hr)</p>

<p>PSAT Score: 224: 99+ Percentile (2004)
SAT 2: World History: 650, Latin: 720, Writing and Italian pending (>700)
AP: Psychology-4 (sophomore self-study), take 5 APs this year
Harvard Extension and Summer Courses:

  1. Psychology: A 2. Neurobiology: B 3. Stats: A- 4. Ethics: pending</p>

<p>Straight A’s school record
GPA: UW: 4.2 (honors curriculum), W: 4.4
no rankings but should be in top 5%</p>

<p>hook: first college-bound generation, parents no college education, brother only went to a community college</p>

<p>So, what are my chances at Harvard, other ivies and Stanford? i will have better and more impressive stats come senior year…
Consider that my school is very old and Harvard naturally likes us…</p>

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<p>The fact that you are first generation will help a lot but you never know. I would say you have an excellent shot but the ivies are a unpredictable. I wish you the best of luck.</p>

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<p>well, do colleges know that i’m first-gen college-bound? Where do I tell them?</p>

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<p>bUmPP…BuMpp…BBUUMMPP!l!</p>

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<p>bu…MP</p>

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<p>oh new stats… 650 Italian SAT 2 and 750 writing SAT 2, SAT 1 + Writing SAT 2= 2250</p>

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<p>bro, you have GREAT chances, just do not get hooked onto one school, you are like the whole package, i think if you are looking at stricky ivies + stanford etc, you should def. get into 1 or more, so don’t worry about anything, just keep up the good work =)</p>

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<p>do you have to be latino, african american, or native american for HPREP??</p>

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<p>“Consider that my school is very old and Harvard naturally likes us…”</p>

<p>you think that, and watch yourself be rejected. they’re so unpredictable, its laughable to say that.</p>

<p>650 in italitian sat II is pretty bad</p>

<p>“hook: first college-bound generation, parents no college education, brother only went to a community college”</p>

<p>not a hook, period. </p>

<p>" i will have better and more impressive stats come senior year…"</p>

<p>who doesn’t say that?</p>

<p>the point is, it seems you are overconfident and will be really disappointed if and when you get rejected. you’re sats are only average for the ivies, so look into more realistic schools. you probably shouldn’t bother apply to HYP, Dartmouth, or Duke, look into Stanford, Cornell, and Columbia for your reaches, due to your resume. that’s my advice</p>

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<p>um…okay. Yeah, HPREP is technically for the lower minorities but I got in because I knew the person heading it.</p>

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<p>@zxchen06: What you said about HPREP is despicable. I think that behavior underscores the problems you will face once in college. Being an over-privileged student, you have nowhere to go but down. I don’t want to incite a flamewar, but you should get off your high horse. If you are so confident of your chances, you shouldn’t post here. If you want to masturbate your ego, you can do so in the privacy of your home network.</p>

<p>You mention that your unweighted GPA is 4.2. That is impossible. I don’t care if you take Oxford level classes, your unweighted GPA cannot be higher than 4.0. The manner in which you mention your SAT scores (“>700”) is extremely arrogant, especially given your mediocre 720 Latin score (your activities suggest you slacked off when preparing for this test). If you infuse your current attitude into your application, admissions boards will question your character. As for your professors’ opinion of you once you’re admitted, I have no doubt: You will be treated like a self-important snob.</p>

<p>I admit, the view I’ve gotten of you is rather narrow. But you must realize, this is the same view that colleges get.</p>

<p>Edit: What, may I ask, is a “lower” minority. This is absurd.</p>

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<p>it seems many will laugh when you get rejected</p>

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<p>I won’t laugh. I look forward to her enrollment in any ivy league school other than Harvard. That is, any prestigious and competitive school that lacks grade inflation. I think she deserves a challenge - not everything in life is a daylight hayride.</p>

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<p>I have to agree with Nom and Ranger29, no offense or anything. Also, I can’t judge you really without out your SAT scores. I mean your PSAT scores are great, but they really don’t say much, when colleges really only look at your SAT scores. You know, going to that prep school doesn’t say as much as you think. My school is “great” too, but according to this site, it isn’t enough! Best of luck though.</p>

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<p>Nom, HPREP @Harvard Med also specifies it as “lower minorities” in their app if ur wondering. “Lower minorities” are minorities who are not Chinese. This is because the Chinese population is very large in the US. Many authorities now use “lower minorities” to differentiate this fact. there are no negative connotations involved; it just means that these people are fewer in population. And my UW GPA is a 4.2. If you don’t know what an honors curriculum is, your school sucks. Regular classes at my school are as challenging as honors classes elsewhere so our UW GPA is out of 4.3. Some other kids on CC mentioned an UW GPA over 4.0. Also, I’m not overconfident. I do have bad times, I hang out with perhaps the “worst” kids in my school and I do realize that my stats are not awesome. That’s why I asked for opinions in the first place. If I thought life was a breeze, I wouldn’t question it.
There. Thanks for the replies.</p>

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<p>Bro, honors classes count as a weighted GPA. That’s what weighted means. AP/Accelerated/Honors/IB courses etc. are all “weighted” if your school does do weighting.</p>

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<p>U didn’t get me. Regular classes are as hard as honors classes at other schools. We do have honors and AP courses. The W GPA is out of 5.3 (6 APs with A+'s)</p>

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<p>@zxchen06: Yes, he did get you. The fact of the matter is, colleges don’t care what your school thinks of itself. The score is, by definition, weighted. It’s very similar to how colleges don’t care what YOU think of YOURSELF.</p>

<p>My school is excellent. The fact that you pass judgment on it knowing only that it does not offer a particular course level is extremely revealing. The school I attend just happens to be one of the very top public schools in the nation.</p>

<p>What I find most significant is that less socio-economically fortunate students are given the same opportunities as regular students in BLS, if not more. Outside of your posh little school of padded egos, there is a world you’re going to have to face. Your button-shirt prep school cannot prepare you for this world. There are people far more intelligent, motivated, and jaded than you. Public school, if administered properly, does prepare you. You will meet formidable social and academic opposition from these students when you enter college. Again, I’m looking forward to your acceptance.</p>

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<p>I don’t get you. I wasn’t looking for criticism; if u need to let ur anger or jealousy out, do it somewhere else. Public schools are great and although some of my friends never attended or will attend college, they still support me every step along the way. I believe in myself but am in no manner, too overconfident.</p>

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<p>My school, like yours, probably weights differently I suppose. At our school, an A+ is 4.33, and I’ve gotten several A+s so far, so I have an “unweighted gpa” of 4.14. However, since so many of you people just go to schools that don’t weigh as such, it just becomes natural to believe that your school is the same as everyone else’s.</p>

<p>BTW, zxchen, NYLF isn’t prestigious at all. People who get 3.0 (weighted) can go. It just depends on how much money your parents have since it costs like 2000dollars. I’ve gotten the packet approx. 4 times in the last 3 years. And saying that your school is old so Harvard will like you is just bs. That’s like saying the rest of the high schools founded in the 1950s like mine have no chance even if we have the same stats as you.</p>