<p>I am a junior, and I will be applying for early decision to all of my top choices this upcoming fall. </p>
<p>Schedule</p>
<p>IB Psychology I: A
IB Theory of Knowledge I: A
IB Math Studies: C
IB Biology I: A
IB World Literature: A
IB Spanish I: B
IB European History: A</p>
<p>Accomplishments
200 Service Hours
2 years of Tennis
2 years of Soccer
Debate Team for 3 years</p>
<p>Weighed GPA: 4.6
Unweighted GPA: 3.5</p>
<p>i can tell you are a junior cuz you don’t even know what early decision means. </p>
<p>You can only apply to ONE and ONLY ONE school for early decision. </p>
<p>You can apply to as many early action schools as you want. (Chicago, MIT, Cal Tech, </p>
<p>Stanford, Yale) BUT!!! if it’s Yale or Stanford they have this thing called Single Choice </p>
<p>Early Action which means you only get to do early action to this school. It’s basically </p>
<p>early decision but nonbinding, which means you don’t have to go to that school if you </p>
<p>get admitted. For ED if you get accepted you HAVE to go there.</p>
<p>and please do not post chance threads if you don’t even have an SAT score.</p>
<p>While leoris90 is correct about the ED/EA/SCEA stuff, the last line was unnecessary. Some people don’t even take the SAT - with so many factors considered in an admissions decision, it’s silly to say that missing one statistic makes it impossible to give any sort of chance. Most juniors have not even taken the SAT yet.</p>
<p>All that said, I’m not an experienced chancer for anywhere and actually think chancing is a pretty silly concept. You’re taking advanced classes - be proud about that. Try to work on that math grade (I know IB math can be insane!) and be sure your applications reflect your devotion to and leadership in your extra-curricular activities.</p>
<p>i’m sure you know either the SAT or the ACT is a requirement for admission. how is he </p>
<p>supposed to get any feedback when he has one of the most important things missing. i </p>
<p>don’t think it’s possible to chance him without an SAT score because just because his </p>
<p>GPA is high doesn’t quite necessarily mean that he’ll do well in his SAT and vice versa. </p>
<p>with his course load and grades, i would say 2100 is a good enough score. After certain </p>
<p>SAT score and GPA, schools will decide whether to admit a person by looking at other </p>
<p>things such as essay and such.</p>
<p>But my real reason for saying that was to tell him not to be so ahead of schedule. He doesn’t seem to be ready to even worry about ED, EA and things like that. Take the SAT, finish junior year, find a true interest, find the schools that has the programs that he wants to be part of, then write chance threads. u kno what i mean?</p>
<p>Have you taken any practice tests for the SAT or ACT for an estimate? It’s kind of hard to chance without that.</p>
<p>And yeah, you can only apply to one school Early Decision.</p>
<p>I think your unweighted GPA is going to hurt you… Unless you’re class rank makes up for it.</p>
<p>SAT: 1900
ACT: Haven’t taken yet
Class Rank: 40</p>
<p>40 out of how many? It’s the percentage that’ll matter…</p>
<p>SATs a little low :/</p>
<p>With that SAT, without anything special about you, no.</p>
<p>Grant it–as you may have surmised—a 3.5 GPA, a 1900 SAT are both statistics that typically do not bode well for admission to Brown, Dartmouth or NU. If you consider these schools as “reaches”, and include applications to Likely and Safety based on your stats and those stats of accepted students you will benefit. It is not to say you won’t get accepted, you do have your EC’s and your abilities to craft a strong essay that could put you over the top. Just be sure to include others as well. G’Luck-APOL</p>
<p>I have somewhat similar stats - if you PM message me in early April I’ll let you know how it went for me.</p>
<p>IF YOUR A JUNIOR YOU HAVE THE ENTIRE SUMMER TO STUDY FOR THE SATs AND BRING YOUR SCORE UP TO A 2200+. IF YOU WANT NU - THEN WORK FOR IT!</p>
<p>well, my GPA is about the same as the OP’s, but I have a 2310 SAT</p>