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My friend is being lazy and won't register so I am going to post her stats on my screen name, well here goes......

Name: Scarlet (rising Senior)
-white female
School: Public School in Maryland
Rank: 40-60/400-this was in the middle of 10th grade and I know for sure that she is at least in the top 10% now, if not the top 5%.
GPA-3.8uw/ 4.2w

She has taken 5 AP's, but will have 10 by graduation:
U.S. History-2, Chem.-4, Lang. and Comp.-4, World History-5, and Satistics-5.
Next year she will be taking AP Literature, AP Latin IV, AP Bio, AP Euro. Hist., and I can't remember the other ļ.

SAT-1450(700v) said she will take again
SATII's-750,w 750,m 750chem. (can't believe she got the same score on all)

Plans on having really good essays and recs, but you never know.

EC's
CS club-(10,11,12)-11 Info. Officer
Latin Club-(9,10,11,12)-10,11,12- President for all
National Honor Society-(11,12)-12 Vice President
Math team-(11,12) Won 1 competition (only one comp. a year)
Youth Jury-(11-12) 130 hours-this was very interesting and it is a very vital program in our community. She will have another 130hours after senior year.
She started a club at her school and will be the president next year.
Part of a Cancer research club at another school in county (11,12) no officers.
Varsity Tennis-(11,12)
Piano-10years
Bi-lingual self taught second language

Over 300 community service hours so far
~130hours youth jury-where you sit in on cases of other teens and sentence them like a real jury.
~ 65hours of school beautification projects
~ 6 hours drug program
~ 103.5 hours at a family support center on Air Force Base.
~ 50 hours in CS club
Ran in several marathons
She plans many programs and school events each year.
CC classes- Fencing, sign language, pre-calculus, and psychology.

Awards-
5 scholarships- about $11,000
Several academic, Piano, and national CS awards

So what are her chances at these schools..

Yale, John Hopkins, Rice, Columbia, MIT, NYU, Duke, William and Mary, Emory, Wellesley, Williams, Amherst, Cornell, Brown, and Dartmouth

By Deerhunter (Deerhunter) on Sunday, August 01, 2004 - 10:52 pm: Edit

Sorry, but I'm too lazy.

By Zantedeschia (Zantedeschia) on Sunday, August 01, 2004 - 11:48 pm: Edit

lol the fact that she's too lazy to put this stuff on herself says a lot...

By Jordana (Jordana) on Monday, August 02, 2004 - 12:09 am: Edit

Yeah that is exactly what I told her, thanks anyway.

By Jordana (Jordana) on Monday, August 02, 2004 - 02:04 pm: Edit

Will anyone rate my friend even though she is lazy?

By Hype (Hype) on Monday, August 02, 2004 - 02:45 pm: Edit

sat's need a boost. needs to clearly define who she is; she has done much stuff, but it seems as if she needs to focus on finding out what her passion/true talent(s) is/are. colleges like to see a one or two / maybe three things that you have done in extreme depth. in general, talented girl, she should study sat stuff and apply. oh yeah, i'd play up the self taught language thing (possible creative essay topic?) and send in a tape of her music...if yale takes supplemental materials, i can't remember if i sent any in. she should be proud of her accomplishments and ready to knock out senior year.

By Path1 (Path1) on Monday, August 02, 2004 - 07:07 pm: Edit

post this in the parent section and add something about what your friend wants to study and what type of campus interests her urban, rural, suburban, public, lac... You'll get a more ideas.

By Nicoleyale (Nicoleyale) on Tuesday, August 03, 2004 - 01:23 pm: Edit

She looks good to me. Try the SAT again.

By Hdotchar (Hdotchar) on Monday, August 09, 2004 - 12:09 am: Edit

i just dont see MIT fitting into all those other schools. does she know what she wants to do? i hope she doesn't want to major in liberal arts type major at MIT. actually your friends SAT fits into all of those colleges upper quartile of scores. the only school where her score does not is MIT, where it would be in the lower quartile.

By Hdotchar (Hdotchar) on Monday, August 09, 2004 - 12:10 am: Edit

one more thing. how did she get a 2 on an AP exam?

By Scarletbluesky (Scarletbluesky) on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 - 05:06 pm: Edit

Well thank you all for answering. I am the friend Jordana is speaking of. All of your advice has been very helpful, and to Hdotchar, I got a 2 on the U.S. hist. exam, mostly because I don't like history. The class sucked and I absolutly hated studing anything for it. I do regret not studing now, but hey geting and 2 and not studing at all isn't all that bad.