<p>These are my friend’s stats who is 1/4 into his junior year, and he loves Princeton. Like literally. What’s he doing right/wrong?
State : NY
GPA: unweighted 96.669 W: 98.87
rank: n/a
just got his PSAT back: 229 , he’s prob gonna be NMF
took one SAT II: bio, got a 690 BUT he was in regular’s bio (soph), not even honors/AP and did a s***load of self studying. At the end of this year he’s taking: Math I, Spanish
Took AP world in soph year (5)
Courses this year (along w/ grades from 1st marking period):
Algebra 2/trig H: 100 UW, 102 W
Chem H: 98 UW, 100 W
Spanish 4H (taking AP test at end of year:98 UW, 100 W
APUSH: 94 UW, 99 W
AP lang: 91 UW, 96 W
Science research: 100 UW, 102 W
band: 98
His major awards thus far: National Spanish Exam gold x2, All-county jazz band, NYSSMA outstanding score x5
ECs: Scrabble Club (co-founder/co-president), Hebrew Culture Club, Latin Club, Jazz Band, Wind Ensemble which placed in the Outstanding category at Disney (national comp.), JV baseball, Varsity Swimming, XC
His future: He started a research project over the summer at Sloan-kettering w/ mentor. Science advisor said it might be the most impressive project she’s ever seen (if he does well at siemens/intel could that impact his chances?). Will be AP scholar w/ honor, NMF hopeful
His worries: He thinks that since he is literally involved in EVERYTHING (3 sports, trumpet, 3 clubs, science, etc.), Pton will think he’s not committed enough to one thing and everything is just resume fodder. Also the fact that most of his peers are in the Honors/AP path of math and science (pre-calc and physics) while he is not. Although he has extremely high grades, does this mean anything?
thanks!</p>
<p>Seriously?</p>
<p>Yes seriously (?)</p>
<p>Your post history is available to everyone. What do you hope to gain from making up a bunch of stuff and asking for “chances?” It would make more sense to post where you actually are now and build from there. Your junior “friend” has the exact same stats as your senior “friend” in another post and the same stats as you when you presented yourself as a junior and as a senior, and all of them have the same info through sophomore year when you posted as a sophomore in your first post. My guess is that your first post is the only one that has any truth to it.</p>
<p>That is true, but it can’t hurt to see what kind of things I should get into and maybe stop being involved in. It IS true that I have a plan for high school, and I was just curious if maybe some of it isn’t necessary. Some of the stuff I do already have though. And the other day we got back our PSAT’s and I swear to god i got a 229 (sophomore). My guidance counselor said it’s the highest sophomore score she’s ever had and that there are no reasons why I can’t be looking at top colleges. But thank you for looking through my stuff and exploiting my flaws</p>