What do you think? Accepted or rejected?

flipchick1127
Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:27:11 +0000

Hey! I would really appreciate your opinions on my chances to the following universities:
Stanford EA
Duke
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Northwestern
John Hopkins
University of Pennsylvania
Indiana University
Brigham Young University

I realize that I have a few reaches and a couple safeties, but do I have a chance for getting in to these schools? I appreciate your help. Here are my stats:

Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Intended Major: Physics (or biophysics if offered)
GPA: 3.97 unweighted, 4.369 weighted
rank: 3rd of 364
SAT: 1430, 710 verbal, 720 math (will be retaking in Nov. and maybe Dec.)
SAT II: Have not received scores yet, should’ve recieved about 700 or more in each.
ACT: 32, will be retaking the 23rd, should receive 33 or 34
AP: AB Calculus (4), Physics, Statistics, English, and Microeconomics (Our school offers 10 but several were just added this year and I couldn’t take them due to scheduling conflicts. Should this be mentioned in the school report?)

ECs: Varsity Gymnastics (4 yrs., been in my whole life, lettered each year), Varsity Cheerleading (3 yrs., lettered each year, NCA All-American, Motions Award, Sportsmanship Award), Class Officer (Treasurere, Secretary, VP, VP), Key Club (2 yrs., read to elementary school kids), Church Youth Group (4 yrs., President 1 yr.), Band (4 yrs., Marched 1 yr., band letter, alto saxophone).

Work Experience: Gymastics Instructor for about 7 months. Babysit for various family members.

Awards/Honors: National Merit Commended Student, Marion County Principal’s Award (3 yrs., given to top 1, 2, and 3 percent of class respectively), Who’s Who Among American High School Students ( 1 yr.), scored in 90th percentile on American Chemical Society end of year exam, National Honor Society, Straight-A Honor roll each semester, various honor ribbons for the highest percentage in individual classes.

Miscellaneous: I attend a seminary class (scripture study class) before school each morning for about an hour. I attended the Richard Lugar Symposium for Tomorrow’s Leaders and Mayor’s Teen Summit (both 1 day events). I watched my grandma for about an hour each day for 1 summer because she had alzheimers.