<p>White Male from Texas
Very competitive high school that is well known to many Southern colleges</p>
<p>GPA: 3.6
SAT: CR 700, M 710, W 760 (2170)
SAT II: Plan on taking US History, Literature, and Math I
Class Rank: Top 35%</p>
<p>Senior Schedule:
AP Government
AP Economics
AP English 4
AP Europeon History
AP Psychology
Physics I
Pre-Calculus
Meeting Modern Problems</p>
<p>Extra-Curriculars:
-Volunteer at Students of the World for the past year, plan on going on a trip with them to New Orleans in August to help with the recovery process
-Volunteer at Settlement Home for Children
-Volunteer at Mobile Loaves and Fishes
-Co-Manager of the Environmental Club
-Member of the Clean Up the Environment Club, done volunteer work with them
-Member of the Spanish Club
-Two years of guitar and voice lessons
-Internship at advertising agency
-Internship at local recording studio
-National Student Leadership Conference in Summer 2006, “Inside the Arts” in Chicago</p>
<p>Schools:
Georgetown University
George Washington University
Tulane University
Colorado University
University of Wisconsin
University of Michigan
Boston College
Boston University</p>
<p>Everything looks on target except rank and GPA are a little low, but if your HS is very competitive and well known, colleges will take that into account. You have a nice set of ECs and you attended a leadership conference, but do you have any official leadership roles? That would give you a great boost. </p>
<p>Overall, you are a match for most of these schools: exceptions being Georgetown, Tulane, U Mich where it is more of a high match or low reach, but very plausible that you’ll get into one if not all of them. If you like the more prestigious schools, I suggest you add a few reaches because you have just as much of a chance as the next guy of getting accepted. It’s better to apply to the top schools and get rejected than not apply and wonder if you would’ve made it.</p>
<p>The killer here is your rank, which may very well keep you out of UMichigan. Afer that Georgetown has TONS of political science majors. You need to give them a reason to take you and I don’t quite see it. Georgetown is a reach, but if you write a good application it’s achievable.</p>
<p>Tulane is desperate for students post-Katrina. I was getting special, no-fee applications from them through March, so I think it’s actually less of a reach than the other two reachier schools.</p>
<p>Yeah, my rank is the only thing I’m worried about that’s kept me from applying to more prestigious colleges. I guess it can’t hurt to apply though. </p>
<p>Would you reccomend applying undeclared to Georgetown?</p>
<p>^No, it shouldn’t make that big of a difference. That track is a type of kid (MUN, Debate, etc). There will just be a lot similar kids in the applicant pool and many of them will have stronger numbers.</p>