<p>I will be a senior next year and I was wondering what type of colleges I should be applying to. I'm not exactly sure what I want to major in, so I figured a good strategy would be to apply to a good all around school and then pick a major.</p>
<p>Sex: Female
Ethnicity: half Taiwanese, half Indian
Parents: divorced</p>
<p>GPA: 3.5 unweighted
SAT Score: 2060
Bio SAT II Score : 760
History SAT II Score : 710
History AP Exam Score: 5
-I will be retaking the SAT I's in October and taking Math II SAT II's in November
-I am also taking the AP Calc, AP Lit, AP Gov, and maybe AP Spanish tests in my senior year</p>
<p>Editor in Chief of Yearbook
former Photography editor of Yearbook
Historian of National Honors Society
member of Social Studies Honors Society
attended two semesters of UMDNJ's Premedical Program
shadowed a doctor at Newton Wellsley Hospital
nine years of commitment to one swimming team</p>
<p>around 50-70 hours of community service (I plan to get 100+)
participated in 4-5 annual Rose Bud swimathons for Cystic Fibrosis
participated in 3-4 annual Breast Cancer walks in New York and at my local JCC/YMCA</p>
<p>My main goal is to go to Medical School. I think I might want to major in Biomedical Engineering, but again, I am not sure. If anyone can give me a good list schools that I should apply to, I would really appreciate it. (reaches and matches please)</p>
<p>I’d say Michigan, NYU, USC, Duke, UVa, Northwestern, Rice, Berkeley, Stanford, UCLA, UCSD and Wisconsin would fit in to the category of “best all-around” colleges. I’m not sure if your stats would get you in to any of those colleges though.</p>
<p>Yeah I know. Those schools are out of my league. Can you give me a list of colleges that I should realistically, not idealistically, be applying to? Thanks.</p>
<p>I’m from Edison, New Jersey. I don’t care much where I stay; I’m open to an entirely new environment. I will most likely end up staying on the East Coast though.</p>
<p>Do you think Vanderbilt is a good school for biomedical engineering?</p>
<p>With 1,500 colleges in the country, it’s hard to help narrow the list without some more choices on your part. I would suggest that an undergrad major in BME would suggest a large and probably technically-oriented university which might be at odds with the “all-around” college experience you’re seeking (or at least, rule out some very good schools that you might otherwise wish to consider). I can’t believe that it’s necessary to have an undergraduate major in BMR to access the field in grad school.</p>
<p>If you have not done already, try computing your expected family contribution (EFC). May use calculator on College Board & Finaid websites. That should give you a realistic picture of how much your family is expected to contribute toward your undergraduate education. Confirm that your family will be willing to contribute to the extent called for in the EFC. If you can gain admission to your State flagship schools, the tuition will be that much lower. Don’t know that much about quality of NJIT education but it seems to have some good BME / ChemE-pharmaceutical offerings. Although your GPA is lower for BS/MD programs, but two semesters of UMDNJ’s Premedical Program & shadowing a doctor at Newton Wellsley Hospital might be very attractive for admission. You may want to discuss it with Dr. David Kristol at NJIT. [NJIT:</a> Biomedical Engineering: David Kristol](<a href=“http://biomedical.njit.edu/people/kristol.php]NJIT:”>http://biomedical.njit.edu/people/kristol.php)</p>
<p>University of Minnesota (Twin Cities) is reasonably priced (~$14K tuition) for out of state students and has very good offering & choices in Biomedical & chemical engineering. Their UG ChemE program is ranked in the top 3 in the county. </p>
<p>Since Michigan Tech is located in a somewhat remote location (Northern Michigan - Upper Peninsula), it goes out of its way to attract good students by offering scholarships. An Asian female student applicant from east coast may contribute to geographical diversity in their UG student body. For students interested in a medical career, their BME program might be of interest:
"* Biomedical engineering graduates have high success rates for gaining admission to medical schools and top graduate schools.
The biomedical engineering department is developing programs with our local hospital for student shadowing of health care professionals".</p>
<p>TCNJ & Pitt, as suggested by tb0mb93, are also good choices, assuming that you will likely get some scholarships, especially for Pitt.</p>
<p>Trinity7 has some really great advice for the OP.</p>
<p>OP—read and re-read Trinity’s first paragraph in particular. The cost of college is not a factor to ignore—particularly since you are currently hoping to go to med school eventually.</p>