will i get accepted to my top choices?

frappuccino90
Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:06:15 +0000

Ok so I’m currently a junior at High School. I have traveled the world for most of my life. I have lived in Tunisia, Indonesia, and Italy prior to living here in New York. I speak 4 languages fluently(English, French, Italian, and Arabic) and took courses in 3 others (latin, Indonesian, and Spanish).

My stats are not too good GPA: 3.7, SAT: 1930 (i took it in May and did alot worse than i expected. Assume I got over a 2000 because I’m re-taking it and i know i could do alot better.), AP French (5), AP US History (expecting a 4). Most of my other classes are honors. My GPA is not too good because I didn’t do too good when i first moved here but this year i have a 95 average).

I did alot of community work, most with my school (such as seasonal volunteer for the elderly shoveling snow and raking leaves depending on the season), helped build a playground in an elementary school, among others. I volunteer every wednesday to help out with autistic kids and am planing to volunteer a month with some UN or SOS program abroad.

Last summer I interned at the a major newspaper for a month and received an outstanding recommendation from them.

Awards i have received include the Rutgers Book award, 7th place in the National french contest in 2005 and 4th place in 2006, Bronze in the Annapolis Music Festival in 2005. I received a couple of MUN awards. I also got nominated to represent my school at the Youth Leadership conference thing, and am a member of the NAtional Society of High school scholars.

School Activities: french club, yearbook (maybe editor in chief next year), debate club, student council (president this year), newspaper (writer and photo editor), and the young democrats club.

So out of everything i’ve told you, do you think i could get into an IVy league school of even a top school? I plan to be an ambassador or a reporter for CNN when i grow up so my top choices are Georgetown University, Northwestern, Washington University in St. Louis, Boston College, Dartmouth, and Swarthmore.

Please let me know what you think and if u have any advice or colleges matching my situation and goals.

Thank you :]