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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you a student? You sound like a student rather than a parent.[/quote]A student.  Does that make a difference in my quest to obtain sincere, objective responses?  I think I'll try my luck at College Confidential.  [/quote]

These schools generally want an unweighted GPA of 3.9 or 4.0, and if your english/history classes are dragging your GPA down, then your chances may be lower. Not impossible depending on your overall GPA, but you need to take this into consideration. Can you view your english/history classes as an "investment" for the next year or two, and work flat-out on them to up your grades? Is it possible to rock your History and English APs and send the (hopefully really high) scores in? If it's any consolation, the exact reverse is true for the history/english types who are trying to get into ivies or top colleges. I say this as the parent of one of those history/english types who had to work to get As in calc, stats and science classes. The good news, in DC's experience at least, was that you can get into a really great (top 5) university without taking APs in all of your non-strong subjects - it worked for DC to go the honors route for a few of the science classes, with just a few AP math or science classes.

Also, as you probably also know, in order to demonstrate your passion for science and particularly if you want them to ignore your other subjects, you'll need to show some great achievements in the way of competitions or activities. It's depressing, I know, but the schools you mention have to choose from so many great candidates and you really need to figure out a way to make yourself stand out.

Sorry, there are some jerks here on DCUM. Unfortunately I have to say, as a denizen of College Confidential myself, that I fear you may not always get sincere or objective responses there, either. You will, however, get many more posters who are familiar with the schools you're interested in. As with DCUM, after a little while you will figure out how separate out the chaff. Good luck, and I mean that sincerely![/quote]

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