Am I aiming too high?

<p>Florida Female</p>

<p>GPA: UW:3.6 W:4.1
Many AP and Honors/gifted classes with MAJOR upward trend (All A's Junior and Senior year including 8 AP classes)</p>

<p>SAT: CR:740 M:680 W:700
ACT:29</p>

<p>ECs:
Marching Band (9-12)
-Drum Major -12
-Clarinet Section Leader-11
-Marching assistant-10
Wind Ensemble (school's top concert band) (9-12)
-Band received Superior rating at district and state levels all 4 yrs
-Superior District and State solo performances
-All County Honor Band (12)
School Musical Orchestrah (10-12)
-1st chair clarinet
Interact (community service club) 9-12
-Historian(12)
Chess Club (11-12)
-Secretary(11 and 12)
Freshman class rep.
Spanish Honor Society(10-12)
National Honor Society
English Honor Society</p>

<p>-I've won various awards for psychology and Spanish </p>

<p>-Summer programs at UF and UCF for robotics and Biology </p>

<p>-Over 100 hours of Community Service</p>

<p>I am very interested in Neuroscience/cognitive psychology </p>

<p>List:
Duke
Northwestern
University of Florida
Emory
Boston U
Rice
(I'm open to suggestions!)</p>

<p>Any input would be wonderful! Thanks!</p>

<p>University of Florida- Safety-Match
northwestern- reach (your GPA is a little low for their taste)
Duke- Match-Slight Reach
Emory-Match
Boston U- Slight Reach
Rice- Match</p>

<p>Would you be happy at BU or Florida?</p>

<p>You do have Bright Futures right? If so, I'd suggest University of Florida.</p>

<p>Yes I do have Bright Futures and Florida prepaid so I would be going there for pretty much nothing. That's probably what I'll end up doing. Is it really worth it to pay oodles of money to go elsewhere?</p>

<p>Polloyo...I think your predictions are a little...off. My stats are almost exactly the same as rchip's. I have a 31 ACT, 3.6 UW and my EC's are better also. </p>

<p>Boston U - Match/Safe Match
U of Florida - Safe Match
Rice - Slight Reach/Reach (GPA below average by alot, SAT 30ish percentile)
Northwestern - Slight Reach/Reach (GPA below average, SAT 40ish percentile)
Emory - Slight Reach/Reach (GPA below average, SAT average)
Duke - Reach (GPA below by alot, SAT 25ish percentile)</p>

<p>To be honest, you are aiming a little high :/. You might want to throw in some more match schools unless you don't mind going to U of Florida.</p>

<p>polloyo are u on crack or something?
how is duke a match when northwestern's a reach and u call BU a reach while duke and emory are match??? hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha</p>

<p>i will have to agree with zkevin</p>