Prep School Grades: Lost In Translation

SsPixie17x
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:58:15 +0000

Oops – I meant a 1-6 scale.

I probably should explain – a 5.0 is anywhere from a 85 - 92 and a 6 is a 93-100, so it’s not really an 83. At Andover, it’s Honor Roll. I’m aiming for a 5.5 next year, but that will probably kill me, since I want to take on Japanese as a sixth class. Oh, and don’t worry, it’s not just Yale… I don’t really expect to get in. Right now:

Reaches: Yale and Brown
Hopefuls (I may be hoping too much): Cornell, Duke, NYU, Claremont McKenna, Georgetown
Safeties?: BU, UNC-Chapel Hill (I’m an NC Native), maybe American U.

I’m trying really hard to find colleges that are good matches for my level as an applicant, but I’m not getting much help yet. Both my parents are from Africa, so the only colleges they trust are the ones that everyone’s heard of… aka HYP. Which is kind of annoying, because I’m only interested in the Y.

Oh, by the way – classes next year:
AP English Lit
AP US History
French Literature
AP Biology
AP AB Calculus
Hopefully Japanese 100 – if my request is approved.

Thank yooouuu Any ideas on the safeties? Anything I could do outside of academics to kick the apps up a notch? And how much will SATs, APs, and SATII’s help me out with the high-school transcript aspect of admissions?