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i live in louisiana. i attend a small private high school with a senior class of about 65, and my school doesn't give ranks, but i do know from my college counselor that i am in the top 10%. i am an indian and am currently a senior at this school, and i wish to apply to the following colleges:

harvard, princeton, stanford, upenn, wash. u. in st. louis, duke, rice, michigan, and tulane.

i am taking the following classes this year: creative writing, calc ap, econ ap, eng iv ap/humanities, bio II ap. (last year i took three ap's: chem, eng lang, and us hist)

some ec's: editor of school paper (served 4 yrs. on staff), key club 11-12, snr class vice president, JETS team 10-12, cross country 11-12, natl honor society 11-12, worked at lsu med. ctr as a lab assistant this summer, habitat for humanity volunteer, MDA telethon volunteer, asthma walk volunteer, wash. u. book award winner, natl merit semifinalist, 3-time LA high school district and state literary rally participant, and LA Boys State representative

test scores: SAT (4/2003) - C: 1390 (V:710, M:680)
(will retake 11/1/03)
SAT II - will take next week 10/11/03
ACT (2/2003) - 31 (will retake 10/25/03)
AP: english language - 5
united states history - 4
chemistry - 3

i plan on going into pre-med and business in college. what are my chances for getting in to the colleges i listed? am i worrying too much or should i worry?

By Serdu (Serdu) on Saturday, October 04, 2003 - 12:20 am: Edit

If you are an underrepresented minority, I think you have excellent chances. Question is: Have you made use of all resources available to you? Have you challanged yourself?

By Lemmego2college (Lemmego2college) on Saturday, October 04, 2003 - 10:48 am: Edit

i dont know what you mean by underrepresented, but i am indian and at most of these colleges i think the indian population is kinda high, so that might hurt my chances a little. as far as making use of all available resources, we don't have a whole lot of EC's at such a small school, and i've done as many as i can, time permitting. and i've taken every AP class i could possibly take depending on schedule and level of experience in that particular subject. Anywhere i knew i had enough experience for and my schedule would allow it, i took an ap course. so basically, i think i have made the best use of all my available resources.

By Hertish (Hertish) on Saturday, October 04, 2003 - 11:57 am: Edit

Indians are not underrepresented

By Carolyn (Carolyn) on Saturday, October 04, 2003 - 02:21 pm: Edit

I think you need to add some more matches and at least one safety to your list. Right now, the only matches I see are Tulane and possibly Michigan--and I don't see a single safety. Drop one or two of the top schools and find some more matches/safeties. Good luck.

By Texan (Texan) on Saturday, October 04, 2003 - 02:45 pm: Edit

whats ur target tho? u have too many on ur list

By Lemmego2college (Lemmego2college) on Saturday, October 04, 2003 - 06:40 pm: Edit

i really can't say i have a target because i'm really thinking here in terms of where i'd get the best financial aid package. i'd be happy at any one of these schools. as far as my list, i really can't cut it down that much because of the fact that i'm looking for the best aid package. if i absolutely had to though, i'd probably cut harvard and princeton and maybe stanford, and add emory as a safety/match. but regardless of whether i cut my list or add safeties or not, what do you all think my chances are for getting in to the schools that i listed? maybe with some opinion it might help me cut my list a little further

By Texan (Texan) on Saturday, October 04, 2003 - 06:53 pm: Edit

rice might be a reach because of your sat scores and unless u have some extraordinary EC's and honors...everything else is a reach except tulane

By Clickspring (Clickspring) on Saturday, October 04, 2003 - 07:10 pm: Edit

You probably won't get into any of those schools unless your GPA is 4.0 or so. You need to apply to some safety and match schools to ensure you will be able to attend a 4-year school next year. What's your GPA?

By Lemmego2college (Lemmego2college) on Saturday, October 04, 2003 - 07:41 pm: Edit

ok the whole gpa thing is a little weird for a few reasons: first of all, my school does this stupid 9-point scale thing instead of a 4-point scale. it has to do with giving 9 quality points for an A+ and then 8 for an A and so on and so forth. I'm not quite sure what my gpa on this scale is, but my college counselor said that from a 9-point scale to a 4-point scale, my gpa converts to a 4.1, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me because i have gotten two B+'s for semester grades in 3+ years of high school. right now through about 7 weeks of senior year my grades are all some kind of A (at least an A- in every class)

By Lemmego2college (Lemmego2college) on Sunday, October 05, 2003 - 04:07 pm: Edit

bump

By Lemmego2college (Lemmego2college) on Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 07:16 pm: Edit

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