Reaching too high?? Will Chance Back

basketballmj32
Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:46:58 +0000

White - Male - NJ - 1st Gen
GPA weighted - (98)
Top 10% - ~550 in class (doesn’t give specific ranks)

Just about all AP and Honors courses throughout HS.
Thinking about majoring in BIO or Biochem

Senior Sched:

Spanish 4 Honors
Calculus AP
English 4 Honors
AP Macro-Economics
Ap Biology

SAT results (first try):
M-720
CR-610
W-600

SAT #2
M-710
CR-620
W-680

Best Sections…M-720,CR-620,W-680 - total=2020

I’m going to take it one more time and I am scheduled for USH and Math 2 SAT IIs

Working experience-

Pizza Shop - 9th to 11th - 12 hours per week
Babysitter- when needed

Extracurriculars:

-Vice President of my class for 2 years
-Member of student council (all four years)
-Interact club -all 4 years (club that does community service)
-Vice President of club as a senior
-Italian-American Club - all 4 years
-Student Alliance - 11th + 12th (helps incoming freshmen)
-Philosophy Club - 11th
-Basketball league in which i’ve been playing since 2nd grade
-Another league in which i started playing since 6th grade
-National Honors Society
-Spanish Honors Society
-Accounting award for school
-Chemistry award

Volunteer:

Mentor to an autistic child

Each week I spend one or two hours with an autistic child of a Families Fighting Autism family I know. Started in 11th grade to present.

Animal Orphanage

Walk dogs at a local animal shelter

Highschool’s Annual Easter Egg Hunt

Event when children come to Eastern and have a variety of acitivites to and food to eat. At the end, there is a egg hunt for all of the age groups.

Walk-a-Thon

Breakfast with Santa

Annual event that children attend with many events going on and every child receives presents donated by the volunteers.

Senior Citizen Luncheon

Annual event where the volunteers serve, talk, and entertain the the senior citizens who attend

Elementary Fair

Volunteer at a elementary school (that i attended) annually when they have their fair

So what do you think my chances are at the following schools? (don’t have to answer all, just as many as you feel like or as many as you know about):

Bucknell
College of New Jersey
Lehigh
Northeastern
Penn State - UP
Rutgers NB
University of Delaware
University of Maryland - College Park
University of Michigan
University of Virginia
University of North Carolina
University of Pennsylvania (big reach)
University of Florida
University of Miami

So what do you guys think? Any other schools to look at?

Thanks!