Tell me where...

hopefuladmit
Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:10:21 +0000

Hey, I’m a sophomore and I was just hoping some of you genius CC chancemasters could tell me what kinds of schools I should be looking at. Do I have ANY chance at Ivies? How about Northwestern, Tufts, UVA? What other schools would you recommend for a prospective PoliSci major?

Stats:
Sophomore PSAT: 216 (W71, CR80, M65) no prep. I think I can bring math to 750 and writing to 800 and hopefully CR will stay where it is!
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.81 Honor Roll all semesters. bad grades are B+/A- in math and science courses, all honors - not related to any major I will possible choose.
Weighted GPA: 4.11 I haven’t taken honors classes in the subjects I’m actually good at yet (english, history, language) because school doesn’t offer them until jr year. really hoping gpa will go up.
School does not rank.
School is a competitive, small (120/grad class) private.
Hardest course load available.

I’m gonna have awesome recs if that helps at all.

Extracurriculars:

Service:
-founder and leader of one of the service programs (10)
-will be a leader of the schoolwide service program (11/12)
-involved in another service program - all of the service is working with kids which is, I guess, a “passion”
-service honor society (150 hours)
-hopefully, hopefully Presidential Medal for Service
-mission trips and events and stuff

Writing:
-minor Scholastics award (10), hoping for better (11/12)
-school writing club, leader (10,11,12)
-published in school literary magazine (hopefully 10,11,12)
-on staff of school literary magazine (10,11,12)
-Newspaper: writer (10), page editor (11), hopefully co-ed in chief (12). Hopefully some awards for articles (pretty good shot at that)
-other stuff (awards, summer programs, workshops)

Government:
-debate team (9) and likely (11,12)
-summer internship the summer before junior year (afraid it’s identifiable, but it’s a pretty sick gig)
-other stuff.

Hoping for Governor’s School summer before senior year; if not, another internship like this summer.

No diversity (white) except possibly geographic.

Thanks!!

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