Am I out of my league?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi all, I'm beginning to start my college app process. My GPA/test scores are good, but I'm a little worried about my ECs, or lack thereof. I'm an Asian male :( living in Kansas.</p>

<p>GPA UW: 4.0 (4.79 W)
Rank 4/490
SAT: 2270 (740R, 800M, 730W)
SAT II: 800 Math IIC, 800 Chem</p>

<p>will probably take the ACT in September</p>

<p>AP classes:
European History, American History, English Lang and Comp, Calc BC, Chemistry
got all 5s on the AP tests</p>

<p>I'm taking AP Gov, AP English Lit and Comp, and AP Biology this year.</p>

<p>Honors/Awards:
Northwestern Alumni Book Award
AP Scholar with Distinction
Chosen to attend a leadership seminar by my HS in July 2012
HS photography awards</p>

<p>Extracurriculars
Piano (2002- ) Have won numerous regional awards/highest ratings at competitions, several master classes with regional professors.</p>

<p>Cello (2005- ) Actively involved in high school orchestra, KC Youth Symphony (5 years), founded a student string quartet in 2010 that plays at a lot of Chinese cultural events. I've also made KS state orchestra the past 2 years.</p>

<p>Worked as a summer student for 4 weeks this past July at a children's hospital genetics research lab, got to do a lot of interesting stuff with DNA.</p>

<p>That's basically it for my ECs :/ I'm planning majoring in Biochemistry and applying to:</p>

<p>Princeton
Yale
MIT
Brown
UPenn
UC Berkeley
Carnegie Mellon
Northwestern
Johns Hopkins
U Illinois at Urbana Champaign
KU</p>

<p>I know I have a lot of reach schools in there. Could you guys chance me/suggest any match schools for me with a good science program?</p>

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<p>I’ll list the ones that aren’t reaches.</p>

<p>Berkeley: High match
UIUC LAS: Match
KU: Safety</p>

<p>If you can stomach border procedures, perhaps you can try your hand at UBC, U Toronto or McGill… unless you cannot afford any of those.</p>

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<p>What about UMichigan? I forgot to include it</p>

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<p>UMI: High match</p>

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<p>You have a similar “high match” chance at UIUC as well, if you were in-state, you’d be in. Northwestern is a reach, and it’s probably you’re best bet if you were to apply ED.</p>