Am i reaching too high?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>White - Male - NJ - 1st Gen
GPA weighted - (98)
Top 10% - ~550 in class (doesn't give specific ranks)</p>

<p>Mostly All honors courses through High school. 1-2 APs</p>

<p>Senior Sched:</p>

<p>Spanish 4 Honors
Calculus Honors (maybe AP)
English 4 Honors
AP Macro-Economics
Anatomy Honors</p>

<p>SAT results (first try):
M-720
CR-610
W-600</p>

<p>SAT #2
M-710
CR-620
W-680</p>

<p>Best Sections...M-720,CR-620,W-680 - total=2020</p>

<p>I'm going to take it one more time and I am scheduled for USH and Math 2 SAT IIs</p>

<p>Working experience-</p>

<p>Pizza Shop - 9th to 11th - 12 hours per week
Babysitter- when needed</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>-Vice President of my class for 2 years
-Member of student council (all four years)
-Interact club - officer next year - club that does community service
-Italian-American Club
-Student Alliance
-Philosophy Club
-Basketball league in which i've been playing since 2nd grade
-Another league in which i started playing since 6th grade
-National Honors Society
-Spanish Honors Society</p>

<p>Volunteer:</p>

<p>Mentor to an autistic child
- Each week I spend one or two hours with an autistic child of a Families Fighting Autism family I know. Started in 11th grade to present.</p>

<p>Animal Orphanage
- Walk dogs at a local animal shelter</p>

<p>Highschool’s Annual Easter Egg Hunt
- Event when children come to Eastern and have a variety of acitivites to and food to eat. At the end, there is a egg hunt for all of the age groups.</p>

<p>Walk-a-Thon</p>

<p>Breakfast with Santa
- Annual event that children attend with many events going on and every child receives presents donated by the volunteers.</p>

<p>Senior Citizen Luncheon
- Annual event where the volunteers serve, talk, and entertain the the senior citizens who attend</p>

<p>Elementary Fair
- Volunteer at a elementary school (that i attended) annually when they have their fair</p>

<p>So what do you think my chances are at the following schools?:</p>

<p>Boston College
Bucknell
College of New Jersey
Lehigh
Northeastern
Penn State - UP
Rutgers NB
University of Delaware
University of Maryland - College Park
University of Michigan
University of Virginia
University of North Carolina
University of Pennsylvania (big reach)
University of Florida
University of Miami
Villanova</p>

<p>What do you guys think? Any other schools to look at?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>If you’re looking at Boston College and Northeastern then I’d check out Boston U.</p>

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<p>no your definately not shooting too high, you have a nice spread out list</p>

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<p>For what major?</p>

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<p>For looking at some of these schools, you clearly haven’t challenged yourself very much. That few APs? (unless your school offers that few) You may be a fairly smart person, but there are multitudes more people who have done more and worked harder with the same intelligence who will be applying to these schools. I’m not talking the folks who amass 10+ APs over their HS tenure, but those who amass 4-5. </p>

<p>Most of the colleges you have listed are kinda reachy. Penn is pretty much out of the question. BC, UMD, UVA, UM, Nova, and perhaps UF are less than targets. Especially out of state. </p>

<p>I;m not saying they’re impossible or improbable. But don’t consider them safe at all.</p>

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<p>school doesnt offer too many APs…AP Bio and Chem are offered in 11th and 12th grade when i already took those classes in 9th and 10th. They offer a few elective APs, like economics, which i am taking.</p>

<p>Im thinking about majoring in bio or biochem or one of the pre-med majors</p>

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<p>Even though you took Honors Bio and Honors Chem, you can still take AP Chem. Usually much more quantitative. Almost like a different course. It looks like you need it to show you are stretching yourself in your interest area.</p>

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<p>I think you have a fair shot at BC.</p>