im interested in california, new york, boston, chicago, and dc.
sats
cr- 610
math- 640
writing- 790
i know i can do better in math. i plan on retaking them.
i got like 67 on my math psat, and i tend to be good at math, so yeah.
my gpa from 9th & 10th grade combined is a 3.86. 10th grade alone was a 3.9 something, all A’s and A-’s except for in a half-year (equivalent) social studies course where i got a B+.
9th grade i took geometry (which was the advanced class) and honors science, and then academic spanish (no honors offered) and then academic english and social studies.
10th grade i took honors everything.
so far this year, i’ve had well above a 4.0, but in averaging it out with my finals and my 9th and 10th grade gpas, i’m hoping for somewhere between a 3.95 and a 4.05 by the end of this year, although i could luck out and get higher.
my classes that i’ve completed so far this year are AP english language, AP physics newtonian mechanics, and cooking. i got a B in english and
a B+ in physics.
the rest of the year, i’ll have AP calc ab (which i’m expecting to continue maintaing an A in), honors chem, honors spanish, and then gym and communications.
i’m expecting to do fairly well, although i can never be sure.
next year i’m not taking science, as i doubled up this year, but i will be taking AP stat in addition to AP calc BC. and i’ll be taking AP spanish. and then academic english, social studies, and then cooking and two photo classes.
i’m interesting in math and science.
i’m considering a computer science or engineering major.
however, i have an interest in physics and the stars and such.
so if a school offers it, i’d like a physics minor, just for the sake of expanding my knowledge, not for a career or anything.
i don’t have extracurriculars.
i could stretch it to contain some community service and maybe like, one club that i’ve sometimes showed up to, but like, yeah. not big on extracurriculars.
i do have a job though.
i’d love to get into somewhere real competitive like UCLA, but i don’t know if i have a realistic chance.
based in the areas i listed above, although you can give other options (although those are really the main places i’d consider going. and maybe florida. so let’s go with california, new york, massachusetts, illinois, dc, and florida), can someone give me a basic list of reach, good match, and safety schools?
thanks so much.
i don’t want a really small school.
preferably something medium-large, and nothing really really rural.
i’d love to get into somewhere real competitive like UCLA, but i don’t know if i have a realistic chance.
based in the areas i listed above, although you can give other options (although those are really the main places i’d consider going. and maybe florida. so let’s go with california, new york, massachusetts, illinois, dc, and florida), can someone give me a basic list of reach, good match, and safety schools?
thanks so much.
i don’t want a really small school.
preferably something medium-large, and nothing really really rural.
Try your best to get your test scores up. I disagree wholeheartedly with shygal9. Competitive universities rely heavily on test scores. This is due to the large variation in grading throughout the high school systems nationally. You could be going to a school that gives out A’s and B’s to everyone or you could be attending a school where only one out of 100 will get an A. This will directly impact your GPA.
Or, you could even be home schooled and receive only Passes and Fails from your parents.
The only means by which a university can make a quantitative measure is by your test score. The same test that all applicants have to take. That is the ultimate yardstick and the great equalizer.
Also:
USC — good school, bad neighborhood (not safe) med/large
UCLA — good school, upscale neighborhood Westwood/safe large
Stanford — half of Palo Alto is bad, the other half is up scale/safe med/small
Berkeley — North Oakland is bad, the hills are up scale/safe med/large
Cal Tech — nice safe place, smallish school, great astro-physics, home of JPL
ASU — good astro-physics, nice neighborhood/safe med/large
UW — good school, safe med/large bad weather
No question: Cal Tech – astronomy, astro-physics.