ANY Chances for "Top Schools"? F/17/Int.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>avg: 96.1% unweighted
grades: 18 credits/all above 93% (except 2)
rank: 3-4 out of approx. 300
SAT: 2170 (CR:800, M:680, W:700)
SATII: Jan. Chem & MathIIC & Bio or World Hist.
International / Female / Middle Eastern</p>

<p>Essays: Good/Excellent essays (by the way, would anyone be willing to look over them?)
Recs: Excellent Recs. (teacher and external)
Misc: Well-traveled/In need of financial aid</p>

<p>EC:
-> Research: (1) National science competition award winner (2)300h university level research (environmental) (3) Pending paper publication
-> Environemental Activism: (1) Volunteer at environemental center about 100+hrs/ special recognition, (2) Counsellor at enviornmental camp for kids 40hrs (3) Environmental magazine contributer (4) Just very passionate about environmental issues!
-> school recycling program (2yrs)</p>

<p>-> Took part in national conference for Computer science
-> Excellent programming experience HTML/CSS/PHP/JS, database development, moderate C/C++, etc.
-> Website development/graphic development company (12-20hrs a week)
-> Have had a personal website (domain) for the past 5 years
-> Developed/maintain websites for school clubs, maintain database at enviornmental center (volunteer)</p>

<p>-> School's Robotics group (2yrs/co-founder) <3 /humanatarian group (1yr/Founder) <3 /Children's Fund (3yr/Management this year) <3 /Amnesty (3yrs/Member) /Tutoring (3yrs/Informal) /yearbook (2yrs) /Tons of minor Activities throughout the year (lighting for school play/musical, photography, student council activities,...) /Volleyball/Badminton (Informal/Intermural)</p>

<p>(My ECs aren't all -that- impressive, but they are things I've put -a lot of time- and passion into so I hope that comes across.)</p>

<p>Harvard/Yale/Penn/JHU/Duke/WashUSL/MIT</p>

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<p>Harvard, Yale, MIT seem like pretty big reaches. Take a look at the EA threads for these - it has been described as a "massacre."</p>

<p>I don't know about the rest.</p>

<p>There are an awful lot of great universities that provide the opportunity for educations that equal, or in specialties are better than, the high profile schools. Univ of Wis, for example, had a top 3 Chem E program when I was studying bar hopping there in the early 70's.</p>

<p>beprepn</p>

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<p>illinois insititute of tech.</p>

<p>look into that. quite good if you are into computers, etc</p>

<p>and it is in a great city</p>

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<p>Can you pay?</p>

<p>HUGE factor for internationals</p>