What are the Chances?

dreads
Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:38:52 +0000

Rising senior from tri-state area, competitive high school, please chance me =D Also, I might need to narrow down my list, so if someone could help eliminate some, that’d be appreciated.

Parents are immigrants from Europe who came in their late 20s/early 30s

GPA: 4.4 weighted (i’m not sure unweighted) Will have taken 7 AP tests by the end of high school however classes wise, some of them were two year classes (for example I took AP Eng jr year and will be taking it sr year however I only take the test sr year. Same thing for US except that was soph and jr)
SATs: 710 m 730 cr 750 w
SAT IIs: 700 bio m 760 us
Top 20 people in grade out of 400+. Not sure where, because school doesn’t rank

Honors/Awards:

Recipient of Bryn Mawr Book Award

NHS

NSHS (spanish honor society)

Silver/Gold/Silver Place for National Spanish Examination (frosh/soph/jr)

2 Writing Contests

Published in a Book

Activities:

Co-Editor-in-Chief of lit mag

Officer of NHS

Sec of REBEL

Freshman mentor

Student tutor

Darfur club member

Youth Advisory Council

30 hrs of community service in the carribbean + language classes there as well

job since 10th grade

Schools:

Columbia

Tufts

Wesleyan

Hamilton/Colgate (not sure which one I’ll do yet)

TCNJ

NYU

Maryland

Lehigh

Lafayette

Muhlenberg

(maybe Vassar)

Some of the schools don’t have supplements to fill out, so I don’t mind doing the applications, however I think that I have too many schools as of now. Any suggestions to help narrow the list down would be great. Thanks so much for your help!