What are my weaknesses?

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Analyze my profile and tell me where i seem weak (please dont everyone say ec’s. thats lame, be specific):</p>

<p>User Name: sriharifez
Gender: M
Ethnicity: Sri Lankan
College Class Year: 2008
High School: Public
Location: Wyoming, USA
High School Type: rarely (like really rarely) sends grads to top schools
Will apply for financial aid: Yes</p>

<p>Academics:</p>

<p>GPA - Unweighted: 3.98
GPA - Weighted: (school doesnt weight)
Class Rank: top 9%
Class Size: 297</p>

<p>Scores:
(Sat scores are predicted)
SAT I Math: 800
SAT I Critical Reading: 710
SAT I Writing: 740
ACT: 32
SAT II Math Level 2 (IIC): 780
AP Calc AB-5
AP Calc BC-Yet to take (prob a 5)
AP Phys C Mech and E&M-Yet to take (prob a 4 or 5)
AP Gov’t-Yet to take (prob a 5)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
-AMC 10 2006 1st in state (score : 114)
-Wyoming State Math Contest (either first place or second place for five years)
-Baseball-Traveling team (American Legion. So its at or above varisty level.)
-Tennis-JV
-Swimming-JV and V
-Track-JV</p>

<p>-Coaching Little League this summer</p>

<p>-Summer Research Apprenticeship Program 2006 (a program at the University of Wyoming where I studied Computational Relativity)</p>

<p>Work Experience:
-Amateur Jeweler, have sold necklaces and such at Christmas Fairs for the last two years.</p>

<p>Junior classes(this year):
-AP Gov’t
-Chemistry 1
-Intro to Art
-Writers Workshop (sem1) and Survey of Fiction (sem2)
-Physics 2
-AP Physics C-Mech and EM-Ind. Study
-AP Calculus BC-Ind. Study</p>

<p>Dual Enroll University classes:
-Foundations of Geometry (Fractals and Projective Planes) (semester 1)
-Classical Mechanics (Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Mechanics, not the easy stuff) (semester 2)</p>

<p>Planned Senior Classes:</p>

<p>note: college classes are dual enroll at University of Wyoming.
-Some lit course
-Advanced Art</p>

<p>College Classes:
-Calculus 3
-Applied Differential Equations
-Linear Algebra (stuff like eigenvectors and calc based matrices)
-Circuits and Systems w/Lab</p>

<p>So, where do i suck?</p>

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<p>First, it depends where you are trying to go to college. Secondly, I would say that you need more ECs that involve community service. I think that your SATs are fine. If I were you, I would just concentrate on my grades to make sure they don’t slip, adn I would get involved with my things such as community service, clubs, etc.</p>

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<p>1)rank
2)leadership in ecs and community service</p>

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<p>ok, as a guideline, here are my schools (that i think i might have a shot at, not my entire list)
Caltech
Harvey Mudd
Carnegie Mellon
Reed
Pomona
UC Berkeley
Cornell
UCLA
UCSD
and for the hell of it, MIT, and HYPS.</p>

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<p>oh and how much better is coaching a little league team than community service? (is it better?)</p>

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<p>Your weakness are your class rank and CR score. If you come from a school that rarely send kids to top schools top 9% isn’t good, you will need to be val or sal for top colleges. WY will help as would being a baseball recruit…</p>

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<p>dont care about how things look to colleges, if u want to coach little league, do it. plan a big service project for summer and start a club next year if ur that worried, does the valedictorian of ur class have the same courseload as u and a 4.0/others applying to similar schools? cuz then u wont look good at all and itll just seem like u go to the biggest inflating school on the planet. u post alot on this site, get some opinions from people u know and can trust rather than me and suze arguing.</p>

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<p>lol okay. actually the valedictorian doesnt have a courseload as heavy as me. in fact its not even close. my HS doesnt rank based on difficult classes at all, so there are some people who are still in algebra one who have a higher rank than me. sigh…
oh and hell yeah im gonna coach. its gonna be sweet.</p>

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<p>I don’t think class rank is going to play a big deal because the colleges will see that there is no weighted GPA and he seems to be missing only one A</p>

<p>As for the whole baseball coaching bit, I would do that over community service if I were you. You seem to be very passionate about baseball, and I think it would look just as good, so do what you are more comfortable with.</p>

<p>Your weakness I would think is that nothing in particular stands out. But then again, there is no weak spot to you. You seem to be extremely well-rounded, and coming from a school that sends no one to Ivies in the middle of nowhere and being a URM is going to look really good on college apps. I don’t see reason to bother taking any of your tests again, or to join any other random clubs or classes just so it can show up on college applications. You have everything you need. :)</p>

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<p>thanks a low erhswimming! okay, so that means i can assure myself that im doing the right thing.</p>

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<p>Most definitely! You have a decent hook (really, how many Sri Lankans are there in Wyoming?) and nothing is lacking on your application.</p>

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<p>haha ok good. and yeah, im 99.99 percent sure im the only sri lankan (in my age group) in all of WY.</p>

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<p>bumpity bump bump</p>

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<p>just out of curiosity, do you speak tamil?
i’m asking only because i do. :)</p>

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<p>you can’t turn water into wine</p>

<p>tsk tsk</p>

<p>no college for you</p>

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<p>yeah i do speak tamil. thats cool!
and elihj, what? fine screw you too.</p>

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<p>You should apply to Amherst.</p>

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<p>um, amherst? hmm ill do some research on it. thanks kenshinsan. oh and im guessing you mean amherst college? not umass amherst</p>

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<p>my best friend from elementary school was sri lankan (totally irrelevant)</p>

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<p>shesh man chill, it was a joke on the idea that people get so worked up e.c.'s grades, AP’s, and other crap to the point that if you can’t preform a miracle (i.e. turning water into wine) you might as well give up on college.</p>

<p>btw you stuff seems gravy ecept for the wymoning part. Not to dis the state or anything, just public schools and wymoning don’t seem to go together. Though, i must, the state is trying; last year it gave 500 million dollars to the univeristy of wymoning. you might be to early to see that money mature into a something, i dunno, you may want to look in to U of Wy in money be an issue.</p>