Am I aiming too high or too low?

College Search & Selection
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<p>Heres my stats:
Senior, South Asian (Indian), Male at a pretty competitive school in TX (was ranked in top 50 Schools in TX . Most students can get into Top Private Schools but most students choose to go to state schools or schools out-of-state probably due to cost reasons; Top students go to Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Columbia College, Tulane, etc)</p>

<p>Proposed Major:
-Pre-Med/ BioEngineering (Biomedical)</p>

<p>GPA:
-UW GPA: 3.85
-W GPA: 5.0119 on a 6.0 Scale ( Scale is way messed up; This homeschooled girl who didn't take ANY AP classes is ranked higher than me.; Val has a 5.3 W GPA )</p>

<p>Rank:
- Top 3.87% of my class.(17 out of 400)
- 6 Honors/Pre-AP classes out of 7 classes every year
- ACT w/ Writing: Composite= 32 (10 on the Essay)</p>

<p>Community service: over 400+ hours in hospital, nursing homes, charity banquet, nursing facility, Red Cross, doctors offices, etc.</p>

<p>During the summer:
-Working a office assisting job at a physician recruiting center
-Volunteered at a hospital
-Had a job as a C.N.A. Trainee (worked with the hospice patients; did pretty much every dirty job possible)
-Intership at 2 doctors offices (one ENT; one Family medicine)
-Ran a business that built and sold custom computers on auctioning and classifield sites; Also provided virus removal and hardware installation.</p>

<p>Senior year:
-5 AP classes (Gov, Eco, English Lit, Bio, Psych, Calc BC)</p>

<p>Junior AP classes:
-English Language=4, AP US History=4, AP Comp. Sci AB=4</p>

<p>Total AP Classes: 9</p>

<p>EC'S
- Youth Group (9,10,11,12)
- HOSA (Officer) (10,11,12)
- School districts Tech committee ( i was my school's representative and leader; lead the change for innovative use of technology in the classrooms to help students gain knowledge) (11,12)
- Youth Leadership Group (10)
- NHS (11,12)
- NTH (11,12)
- Spanish Club (11)
- Reading Rocks Program (promoted literacy to senior citizens and children) (team leader) (9,10)
- Hospital Volunteer Group (Officer) (9,10,11)
- C.N.A. Certified & CPR Certified (11)
- National Technical Honor Society (11,12)
- Senior Clinical Mentor for Clinical Program (10,11,12)
- Building/selling/repairing custom computers (9,10,11,12)
As seen from my EC's i have an interest in technology and medicine.
All of this at the top of my head.</p>

<p>So if i aim for Rice and Vanderbilt, is that too high of an aim or low of an aim? I really want to go to Rice but everyone is discouraging :(</p>

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<p>Bumpppppppp</p>

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<p>I am pretty sure you could make it into either--nothing's forsure though. Good luck!</p>

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<p>Google the Common Data Set of any school you like. Sections C7 to C12 give the profile of the last matriculating class. Because of the way yields work, you have about a 50% chance of admission if your stats are near the 67th percentile, but lots of other factors interfere. The CDS entries also show what a school considers important for admittance.</p>

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<p>If you are considered in-state for Rice, then I say your chances are pretty solid. Same with vandy, just from seeing other people's stats that got into that school. If I were you, I would hit up the Vandy and Rice forums and look at stats of people who got in. Each school has its admission stats on their website too, so give it a look.</p>

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<p>Your reaches look just right, realistic but not a shoo in.</p>

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<p>What does in-state have to do with Vandy and Rice? Aren't they private? I like the collegeboards "how do I stack up" for GPA and standardized test comparisons. Doesn'tt factor in EC's and letters of recc though.</p>

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<p>i would say, ur reaches are within ur reach.</p>

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<p>I would say you are looking at the right level of schools. However I would suggest also looking at</p>

<p>Emory University Eagles
Washington University in St. Louis Bears
Duke University Blue Devils</p>

<p>All of those schools would be reaches, but not too far off</p>

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<p>y are u adding all the eagles, bears thing after their names..i know it represents them..just curious y, cuz it sounds a lil strange to me</p>

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<p>It's just something I do.</p>