Question about my chances

jkane99
Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:58:58 +0000

My information (I’m entering my senior year in the fall):

SAT: 800 Critical Reading, 660 Writing, 620 Math.

AP: Have taken 5 AP classes, one sophmore year, four this year. Got a 5 on my sophmore year test (AP US Government). Took AP Biology, Psychology, US History, and English Language this year. Am taking four more senior year.

Grades: 3.74 GPA on a 4 point scale. Top 10% of my class, about 220 students in my class. Only two non-honors classes this year, and neither were fluffy extracuriculars, one was a Classics course, the other a course studying different Eastern/Western philosophies. The closest to a fluff course I’ve taken is Gym in 9th grade, because it is required to graduate.

Extracuriculars: Soccer for four years, was JV Captain in my Sophmore year, junior year my varsity team won the district championship and went to the state semi-finals. I was voted Unsung Hero for the season. I’ve played tennis since my sophmore year. Also am a member of the Ski-Club since freshman year, and am now a member of the National Honor Society.

Background: I come from a white, middle class family in Mass. My father went to MIT, and my mother went to Penn State. Two younger sisters, one entering college two years after me, the other four years after me. I’m very well read. Sometimes I get obsessive about certain subjects- for example, in a two week period I read 5 biographies of Julius Caesar. Nothing extraordinary has happened in my life. I work full time during the summer in a warehouse, have since sophmore year.

Recommendations: Probably from my AP US History teacher, who graduated from Northeastern, and either my AP Psychology, AP Government, or AP Language (graduated from Georgetown) teachers, I can’t decide. Advice there would be helpful.

Major Interests:
Political Science, Economics, Business.

Colleges I’m looking at:
George Washington University (would like to get into the Honors Program)
Northeastern University (would like to get into the Honors Program, third choice)
University of Michigan
Georgetown University (would love to go here)
Boston College (second choice)
Boston University (would like to get into the Honors Program)
New York University
American University (would like to get into the Honors Program)

I really appreciate any advice, including other schools to look at, thanks in advance!