<p>Hey, I’m a white male from California. Wondering what my chances are for:</p>
<p>-Penn
-Columbia
-University of Chicago
-Northwestern
-NYU
-Yale</p>
<p>Academics:
GPA: 4.0 unweighted, not sure about weighted…probably 4.7ish
SAT I: 2260
-Critical Reading: 800
-Mathematics: 660 - don’t know what happend here
-Writing: 800, Essay - 12
ACT: 34, Essay - 11
SAT II German: 730
SAT II Math II: 750
SAT II Literature: 800
SAT II French w/listening: 800
AP U.S. History: 5
AP English Lang: 5
AP Latin: Literature: 4
AP French Language: 5
AP French Literature: 5
AP Human Geography: 5
AP Biology: 5
AP Calc BC: 5
AP Microeconomics: 4
And next year I’m taking:
AP Physics B
AP Euro history
AP English Lit
AP German Language
AP Psychology
AP Art History</p>
<p>Sports:
Fall: Boys’ tennis for all four years - captain
Spring: Boys’ swimming for all four years </p>
<p>EC:
German Honor Society
German Club
Literary Magazine, Editor-In-Chief
Biology Club- Founder/President
Gay-Straight Alliance - President
Choir (Men’s Ensemble and a Choral Showcase)</p>
<p>Volunteer Work:
Worked at hospital for 5 years, various hours.
Tutor for elementary schools</p>
<p>Jobs:
Worked at a public library for 4 years</p>
<p>Cool. Put together a great essay for Chicago (see my post on the Chicago threads for what I think constitutes a “great” essay) and I’d say you have as decent a shot as one could have. What are you interested in studying? And are you interested in swimming in college?</p>
<p>And about your username… UChicago has doc films, the oldest campus film society in the nation.</p>
<p><a href=“http://docfilms.uchicago.edu/[/url]”>http://docfilms.uchicago.edu/</a></p>
<p>I have no idea if I want to continue swimming or tennis yet. I mean, as far as on a team; I’ll still swim for exercise :). I’m very interested in film, but I like so many other subjects including languages and biology. I need to figure out which passion to pick pretty quickly.</p>
<p>No, you don’t, I was just curious… Chicago caters to students with a number of academic subjects because it has a core curriculum. One of the objectives of passing through a certain number of set requirements, other than deepening your knowledge in various fields, is to get a sampling of what’s out there and to delay the decision of majors and minors until the end of the second/ beginning of the third year (and even then, a lot of students change).</p>
<p>i would retake the SAT if i were you to improve on that math</p>
<p>in at all (including yale)</p>