<p>Hello all-
While not accuate, there is something reassuring in making a chance thread, is there not? Even though I feel rather dirty doing so, my anxiety has reached a level where the post new thread button seems so tempting…anyways, here we go</p>
<p>** Me **
White Male
Kentucky
Attends a school that sends three or four students to top universities each year
IB Diploma Candidate (one of two schools in Kentucky with IB)
No legacies to any schools of interest</p>
<p>** Testing **
ACT: 35 Composite (36 S, 33 M, 34 E, 35 R) , 11 Essay
PSAT: 218 (probably NMSF in Kentucky)
SAT II:
-USH 770
-WH 690
-Chem 640
(going to retake Chemistry and WH October, expect 700 + each… IB courses are two years, so I hadn’t learned half the material on the test)
IB Music SL: 5</p>
<p>** Grades **
3.94 Unweighted
5.04 Weighted
Rank: 5/408
Classes: All advanced first two years of school + arts and humanities by correspondence
Junior Year: 4 IB SL, 3 IB HL, two advanced
Senior Year: 3 IB SL, 3 IB HL, 1 advanced, AP Stats</p>
<p>** Extracirriculars **
Church Choir (8 years)
Youth Symphony Orchestra (2 years)
Academic Team (3 years)
Governor’s Scholars Program (5 weeks in summer)
Royal School of Church Music (4 years)
Leadership development program through the chamber of commerce
Spanish Conversation Club (3 years)
Kentucky Youth Assembly (three times)
Kentucky United Nations Assembly (1 time)
Kentucky World Language Bowl
Viola Ensemble (10 concerts)
Beta Club (3 years)
NHS (2 years)
Viola lessons (8 years)
Church youth group (2 years)</p>
<p>** Volunteerism **
Hospital Volunteering (50 hours)
Food Bank (10 hours)
Counselor at Reading Camp (25 hours)
Teaching Basic German to a 6 year old (20 hours)</p>
<p>** Awards **
Medical Society Science Award
Outstanding Orchestra Student (2 times)
Outstanding French Student (2 times)
Almost certainly National Merit Finalist
Kentucky World Language Association State Qualifier
Kentucky World Language Bowl Champions
1st Place Varsity Social Studies (Academic Team League)
3rd Place Varsity Humanities (Academic Team League)
Academic Team 1st place overall (two times in a row)
Ranked Distinguished by Federated Music Club (4 times)
Rank I viola solo in solos & ensembles (4 times)</p>
<p>Essays: Probably pretty good
Recs: Certainly good, hopefully excellent</p>
<p>** Colleges of Interest **
Colleges of Interest:
<p>good test scores, class schedule (i’m in IB too, yay!), and awards. as mentioned before, volunteering is lacking a bit. maybe focus on that this summer or over the next few months. other than that i think you’re good for most of the schools you’ve listed</p>
<p>UChicago- low reach (they LOVE IB kids)
JHU- low reach
Georgetown- low reach
upenn- reach
bu- safety
washu (st.louis, yes?)- reach
michigan- match
sorry i’m not sure about the others</p>
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<li>Chicago sends out a ridiculous amount of spam mail to unqualified applicants.</li>
<li>WashU rejects overqualified applicants because it thinks they won’t attend, so being a highly qualified applicant there actually makes it harder to get in.</li>
</ol>
<p>Awk.</p>
<p>And IMO you shouldn’t bother retaking the Subject Tests. I got in to Georgetown with lower scores (though US was actually the same exact score!). It’s more worthwhile to take new tests, but even better to just not take any.</p>
<p>But my chem score puts me in the 39th percentile. I know my score isn’t the worst, but if I can do better, why not? And as I am sure you know, GU strongly advises one to submit three subject tests. What would be the consequences of submitting only 2?</p>
<p>I think for the higher range top20 schools like Duke, Vanderbilt, Stanford, etc, it might be a good idea to get your SAT Subject scores, like you said, up to 700+. Other than that, I think you have as good a chance as anyone else, you are competitive :)</p>
