<p>Hey everyone, I'm Noah, this is my first post here. Here's a little about myself, I'm from Texas, my GPA is roughly a 3.6, my sat scores are 670 math, 610 reading, 660 writing, 11 on the essay. 27 composite on the ACT but im retaking it. I was involved in the all state matching band for 3 years, played on the Drumline for 2 and was a leader for one (possibly the most demanding program at school, in the summer it's almost 60 hours a week). I've been taking my schools engineering program for 3 years, will be 4 after next year. I'm a junior about to be senior. I've been in UIL, Chess, debate, rocketry club, I created an aviation club with over 30 members, almost a dozen of which have flown private pilots lessons through the club, and I am president of that, president of NTHS, I've been in NHS for 2 years, played in the jazz band, varsity swim team for two years, and I've taken the hardest available classes all throughout highschool. Other achievements, top 10% of the class, 1st place state chess champ (back in middle school). I have job experience with my parents' business, been working for over a year. By the end of this summer hopefully ill have 200 hours of community service. My GPA will be going up quite a bit senior year. At least 4.0. </p>
<p>When I was younger I lived in Florida, but that was ten years ago. After that is was California. Now in Texas, I want to go back. Florida is ideal, but only UF really has a good reputation. I plan on applying to a vast amount of schools, and I will rank them below by my preference. Please, recommend what I should do and where I should go. Intended major is between civil engineering, mechanical engineering, and computer science. Military service is very possible. If not, law school is something I'd really like to do, my parents are pushing for med school so maybe that also. </p>
<p>So my top choices (yes I know there's quite a few)</p>
<ol>
<li>Stanford (dreams)</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>UF</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>USC</li>
<li>USF</li>
<li>UT</li>
<li>UCSF</li>
<li>Texas A&M</li>
<li>FIU</li>
<li>University of Tampa</li>
<li>UD</li>
</ol>
<p>Just tell me what you think of all this, what you'd recommend, and what my chances are. Thanks a lot, I really appreciate it.</p>