What's the forecast?

<p>I’m a current Junior and was wondering what the outlook for my college chances were.</p>

<p>GPA: ~4.05 w, ~3.7 uw
Class Rank: 9/250
SAT: 1890, retaking in June</p>

<p>These are the classes I’ve taken and the grades, final are in parentheses, and projected are in double parentheses.</p>

<p>English: Freshman-World Lit H (A), Sophomore-American Lit H (A-),
Junior-English Lang AP ((B+))
History: Freshman-World H (A), Sophomore-American I H (A-), Junior-US History AP (B+),
Science: Freshman-Bio H (A-), Sophomore-Physics H (B+) & Chem H (A),
Junior-Anatomy H ((A))
Math: Freshman-Geometry H (B+) & Alg II H (B+), Sophomore-Adv Alg&Trig H (A) &
Pre-Cal H (A-), Junior- Calculus AP ((A))
Latin I-III all A’s
Art I-III all A’s
I’ve also taken the required health/gym electives</p>

<p>This is my tentative Senior year schedule: AP Eng Lit, Government H, AP Chem,
Math History, Latin IV, and AP Studio Art.</p>

<p>Ec’s:
Girl Scouts will be twelve years and counting. I’ve earned my bornze, silver and working on my gold award.
Varsity tennis for four years
YMCA swim team for four years
I volunteer at my local library which had major budget cuts. I’ve run a culture program for kids since freshman year, but have been volunteering there since fourth grade.
I’ve been an altar server for six years but would like to be a lector once confirmed. I volunteer at a homeless shelter through my church every few months, it’s a rotating schedule.</p>

<p>Random things that may or may not be important about me: I traveled abroad Freshman year, I was a camp counsellor at a local college summer of sophomore year, and am taking a summer@brown course this summer. </p>

<p>I’d like to major in anthropology and maybe go on to grad school…</p>

<p>The colleges I’m currently interested in are:
Tulane (currently my dream school)
Brown
Sarah Lawrence
Amherst
William&Mary
Oberlin
Ohio Wesleyan
Swarthmore
U Rochester
Skidmore
Bryn Mawr
and NYU</p>

<p>So what’s my forecast at these colleges: Bright and Sunny, Cloudy, or Raining on my Parade?</p>

<p>Need to know your SAT. Depending on that, I’d rate your chances as anywhere from decent to great at Tulane, no at Brown, and varies for the others. If Tulane is your dream school, why apply to Brown as that’s much harder to get in?</p>

<p>I just realized I left my sat off and edited it on sorry…
I do like Brown, but right now Tulane is ahead…why do I have no chance there?</p>

<p>Brown’s an Ivy League school and your EC’s aren’t amazing enough to make up for your low-ish GPA and low SAT. Even if you got your SAT to a 2200+ I wouldn’t like your chances at brown. With the 1890 right now, depending on your breakdown, I would put Tulane at a high match.</p>

<p>“If Tulane is your dream school, why apply to Brown as that’s much harder to get in?”</p>

<p>You can’t get in unless you try, dude.</p>

<p>@wordgirl: You are a solid applicant, but because of the rigorous admissions process lately, admissions to top schools in the country are crapshoots, for lack of a better word. lol I won’t give you my opinion on your ECs because those are subjective, and opinions may vary. About your SAT score: if you don’t reach your goal score on your second try, I recommend trying the ACT. It might be the better test for you. </p>

<p>In terms of the weather, assuming your SAT score goes to 2000+:</p>

<p>Tulane: match / possibly an either-way (sunny with maybe a few sprinkles)
Brown: reach (stormy for everyone)
Sarah Lawrence: match / solid (sunny)
Amherst: reach (cloudy and raining, but not stormy)
William&Mary: reach (if you are out-of-state, you will have to be exceptionally exceptional to be admitted into W&M)
Oberlin: match / either-way
Ohio Wesleyan: solid
Swarthmore: reach (possibly stormy)
U Rochester: either-way
Skidmore: match
Bryn Mawr: either-way / reach
NYU: either-way / reach</p>

<p>Please take all of this with a grain of salt, and remember that I’m assuming that your SAT score will go up. :-)</p>

<p>Thanks violistchan, and I’m taking the sat II’s in May and the sat I and act in June, so fingers crossed and study books out!</p>

<p>The Gold Award is the equivalent/slightly harder to achieve than the Boy Scout Eagle Award…it’s not something you get by making s’mores around the campfire and singing kumbaya.</p>