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Here are my stats:

-1440 SAT I (760 V, 680 M). Taken once + hopefully will only take once more.

-SAT II:

Writing: 800
Spanish: 750
US Hist: 740
Math IC: 680

-I go to an extremely competitive private high school . . . we usually send ~10-15/70 to Ivy League / comparable schools in each graduating class. I have about a 4.2 wtd, 3.7 unwtd. I've taken 5 AP classes through end of junior year.

- Senior Schedule = Ap Physics, AP Art Hist, AP Spanish Lit., AP English Lit, Calculus (normal)

-White male

-AP scores:

English Lang: 5
Spanish Lang: 5
Bio: 5
US History: 5
Chemistry: 3

ECs:

-4-year Varsity Letterman, 3-year starter for football. I have been all-league and have been getting mildly recruited by some good schools.

- I have an autistic brother and need to babysit him and accompany him to various doctors' appointments year-round. This takes up about five or six hours per week.

- I own and operate my own website. It's a locally famous humor website with about 10K hits right now and I've been featured in some newspapers.

- Fluent in Spanish (English spoken at home) + went on a Language Study program in Argentina this past summer.

- Junior Class President

- Worked at a Law Firm for about 2 months one summer for 8 hours/day.

- 4-year writer for School Newspaper

- In school orchestra for two years, school musical orchestra for two years.

- Various community service activities . . . most pertain to working with Spanish-speaking kids and things of the sort.

Anyway, as far as school choice goes . . . I am trying to come to a final list. Here is what I have in mind right now. I think I need 1-2 matches, though. Tell me your opinions (yes, I know I have a lot of reaches!).

Reach
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Princeton (ED)
Yale
Dartmouth
Amherst
Swarthmore
Georgetown

Middle
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University of Chicago
Davidson
UC Berkeley (I am a California resident)
UCLA

Foundation
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Oberlin
Kenyon
UC Irvine
UC San Diego
UC Santa Cruz


This comes out to twelve applications right now, which is A LOT. But if you guys have any ideas feel free to share.

By Pimpdaddy (Pimpdaddy) on Sunday, October 05, 2003 - 11:11 am: Edit

i would highly suggest against princeton ed.
This is only because i am also doing princeton ed and feel that you have a very good chance of getting in, like 9/10.