College Chances?

Question

What are my brutally honest chances at:
1. Boston College
2. Boston University
3. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
4. University of California at Irvine
5. Tufts University

1. 3.9 GPA
2. About 1000 Hours Of Community Service
3. SAT 600, 600, 600
4. Advanced Drama (Lighting), Play Production
5. Cast Member Of Television Show At School
6. President of Future Medical Careers Club
7. CSF
8. NHS
9. Honors Classes- Geometry, Algebra, Chemistry, Math Analysis
10 Pre IB Classes- Spanish 3
11. AP Class- Physics
12. Student Of The Month (Does That Matter In Admissions?)

If you have any other colleges in mind, let me know. Thanks to all! (This is what I will look like next year when I am a senior)

Answer 1

Okay, your GPA is good, if thats the unweighted of course. If it's weighted, eh, not that impressive..

Community Serive - Wow! That's impressive!

SAT - decent, but not really outstanding

Drama/Play helps for extra activities

NHS helps as well

Honors Classes...could be more, but good.

Spanish 3 is good! Three years is what colleges like to see.

AP Physics is good.

Student of the Month is just a small thing.

I'm assuming you live near Boston? I think you have a fair shot at BC and BU. UNC-Chapel Hill...the SAT and lack of high academic classes might hurt a little bit. Chapel Hill is VERY hard to get into outside of North Carolina. Not sure of Tufts or UCI.

Hope this helps! Biggest thing your senior year: Keep up your grades. Don't slack off; colleges hate that.

Good luck!

Answer 2

Your chances are out? That's completely BS. My advice? 1) Score well on the ACT. A 22 isn't bad, but you need to improve it. Take it as many times as you can. It's annoying, but the closer you get to 30, the better. 2) Get out of the accelerated classes. You're right - excuses are worthless. Do something better and get into the lower-level classes. In the end, colleges aren't really going to pay THAT much attention to the fact that you received a D in an accelerated class. They just see a D. If you get an A in a more traditional class, it's going to look better. 3) Get involved with sports, even as a manager. Colleges love sports. 4) Also...big one...VOLUNTEER. It shows colleges that you would make an excellent choice to their school. In the end, college isn't out. You just need to make the decision to work hard and achieve. Maybe it's a good thing to head to a community college for a few years first to save money and get those grades up. Maybe it's a good idea to look at a state program. I will say this: not making excuses is great. HOWEVER, high school is free education. You fail a class and you aren't out anything other than having to retake the class. Fail in college and you still own $200+ per class. Focus on WHY you're failing and work on that.

Answer 3

Other than SAT's which aren't bad, but not outstanding either, it looks great. It's hard to tell whether you'll get accepted by those schools, since they'll have a large number of other applicants who also have great backgrounds and the SAT scores might hurt you a bit there. And by the way, are they really 600-600-600, or are you rounding? Those numbers look a little unlikely if they're exact - maybe they are, but if you're rounding, that's not what the admissions people will be looking at, they'll look at the actual numbers.

Good luck. Apply to a "safe school" also, one that you wouldn't mind attending.

Answer 4

Your chances are good to great. You may want to also research the amount of financial aid (non-loans) awarded by these schools or any other school for that matter. A heavy debt load is an increasingly unrecognized penalty for prestigious schools while lesser known but equally challenging schools provide more academic reward/scholarship funds. Oberlin College www.oberlin.edu, is an example along with Duquesne www.duq.edu and Walsh www.walsh.edu

Answer 5

You, sir, are an admission officer's dream! Harvard is not entirely out of your league.

Improve your chances? Can you get letters of reference from your senator or the former president of each of those universities? Know anyone who's a big contributor to the school? Famous graduates?

What are you going to major in? If it's theatre (looking at your extracurrics), give a serious look to Yale or Maryland.

Answer 6

It is very difficult for a random person on yahoo answers to really give a good answer for your question. College admissions are all up in the air once you apply. Apply to all the schools you are interested in and see what happens.

Answer 7

Your community service is good. Your acceptance to those universities is up to the university.

Answer 8

Very impressive stuff! You'll probably be accepted at any college.