<p>Stats:</p>
<p>Michigan public high school
GPA 3.4 unweighted
all AP Honors all the time
SAT nearly perfect
ACT 34
AP 5 on Calc BC, Stats, World History
AP 4 on Eng Lit, Physics B, US History</p>
<p>Passion for politics, debate, music, maps, editing Wikipedia
Drumline, band, written own marching band music performed by school band
Decent marimba player
3 years debate - state champs
2 years We the People - team was 4th in nation</p>
<p>Issue: I don’t do homework unless I’m interested so GPA drops
Aced Calc without ever doing one problem in homework</p>
<p>Interested in Regional/Urban planning at a school with strong music.
Ideas?
Chance me at:
Cornell
Haverford
Bowdoin
U. Michigan
MIT
Tufts
Oberlin</p>
<p>Thanks for any help!</p>
<p>Cornell, MIT, and Tufts are your reaches. A 3.4 will likely not cut it, unless your school has ridiculous grade deflation and you are somehow still in the top 10 of your class.</p>
<p>The others seem reasonable.</p>
<p>Will you get decent recs? At our school you could never get an A if you did no homework.</p>
<p>It all looks good, the only problem is that there are many gifted/unique/etc. young people who apply to these schools who also had strong work ethic in high school. I’ve got a friend like you (did slightly better with grades because of extreme parental pressure) and he eventually just gave into doing work he didn’t necessarily feel like doing because it fit his overall goal of going to a good college. I would suggest getting awesome grades first semester of senior year to prove you are capable, and then explain why homework is, in general, ■■■■■■■■ in high school on your essay (not necessarily that…but explain the discrepancy between grades/tests.)</p>
<p>Why do you want to go to college? It’s all about homework. . .</p>