What Type of Schools Should I Aim For?

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>I have ideas of my own, but I would appreciate some unbiased opinions too.</p>

<p>Here’s my life in a nutshell - </p>

<p>School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Whitey McGee, parents are divorced</p>

<p>SAT
2110 (700v, 720m, 690w) retaking in June</p>

<p>SATIIs
US History – 740-750ish</p>

<p>GPA
UW: 3.86 (3.8 fresh, 3.55 soph, 4.0 junior)
W: 6.7/7.0</p>

<p>Class Rank
Top 3%
(in top 16 out of 432)</p>

<p>Classes Taken:
Highest level possible with only exception being Chemistry (2nd highest level)
Junior Year APs – Calc AB (probable 3), US History (probable 4 or 5)</p>

<p>Senior Year schedule (not for sure):
Calc BC/Advanced Topics (not technically an AP, but I’ll take the test)
AP Comp Lit
AP Physics
AP Psychology or Geography
Some necessary electives
Honors Spanish</p>

<p>So, 5-6 APs by graduation (school offers about 10, languages excluded, but not really possible to take that many due to other requirements. I will take more than most people I know)</p>

<p>ECs:
Football – all four years, Captain senior year, all-academic team
Flag Football league in spring
Rec-league basketball – all throughout high school, maybe school team senior year
Weightlifting – 3-4 times a week for football, usually about 1 hour in length, every year and year round
Stock Market Club – 9,10
School Newspaper – 11,12 (sports editor 12th)
Chess Club – 11, 12
Political Discussion Club – 11, 12
Built and maintained website for school baseball team (volunteered) (8-10 hours per week for two months) – 11th grade, maybe 12th
Work – landscaping – 11, 12 (10-15 hours a week)
Little league umpire – 10, 11 (3+ games a week)
Won schoolwide volleyball tournament  </p>

<p>Other stuff –
Probable recruit for D3 football
Built own computer in summer before junior year
I’ve done a lot of stuff with my family tree, traced it back to some notable figures and back to Europe
Will have gone to 10+ football camps over the course of three summers by application time
Going to Spain this summer for a couple of weeks, just for fun (not sure if this matters or not)</p>

<p>Probable major: Philosophy, Economics</p>

<p>Evaluate me with and without football recruiting help please.</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>bump, anybody?</p>

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<p>Apply wherever you want. I’m sure you’d be a strong applicant anywhere.</p>

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<p>Do you feel nervous? I would say you have splendid chances at almost any schools, IF you were to become recruited, even better.</p>

<p>*caution I’ve seen this happen- don’t depend on your sports and slack off on the essay, write something that a sportsy person wouldn’t really think of, get essays that comment on your academic abilities as well.</p>

<p>I also noticed that you joined many other random clubs during your 11th and 12th grades, just wondering why?</p>

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<p>Thanks guys. I definitely won’t slack off though, but thanks for the reminder. It’s probably a good thing I’m not a better athlete, or I might be tempted to. It’s not that I feel nervous per se, more like uncertain. I don’t have the academic awards that it seems most of the applicants on here have, as my life has been geared towards sports and self-academics (not really a word), meaning I read on my own and have taught myself a lot about computers and sports nutrition. I’m not trying to toot my horn, and I hope I don’t come off that way.</p>

<p>Well, I was worried about that too. It’s not a case of trying to make stuff look good. Both the political discussion club and chess club were started this year, one by a friend of mine, they just happen to both interest me. I had never really considered the newspaper, but they came around to my class recruiting people, and I thought it might be fun. I pretty much got the Sports Editor job by default. I kind of want to start a philosophy club, but I’m not sure how much interest it would get, or if I could find an interested advisor.</p>

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<p>I think you have a shot at basically any school. As someone else said be sure to write about an interesting subject/passion that you have for something in your essay.</p>