Chance a junior

Applying to College
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<p>I know its kind of early being a junior and all, but I'd like to start figuring out what colleges I could get into/shoot for. I go to a top 100 public high school that sends 10+ kids to schools like MIT, princeton, caltech, yale etc. every year. I'm a white male and my parents make $150-200k.</p>

<p>Academics:
4.0 UW, 4.15 W gpa - the UW is definitely going to go down because my school used to consider any A as 4.0 but now 90-93 is counted as 3.67. So far this year I have 2-3 A-'s and the rest are A's</p>

<p>Rank - school doesn't rank, but probably top 10% in a class of 300</p>

<p>SAT/ACT - taking them dec 3/10. got a 31 on a practice ACT yesterday without any studying yet</p>

<p>Sophomore Year Course Load -
AP World (4) and AP Physics B (5), among other classes</p>

<p>Junior Year Course Load -
Honor Pre-Calc
English 11
AP US History
AP Chem
AP CompSci
AP Biology</p>

<p>(Probable) Senior Year Course Load -
Creative Writing
Health
Chinese or AP Environmental
AP Calc BC
SUPA (syracuse university equivalent) Macro/Micro Economics; will being taking AP
AP Government and Politics
AP Physics C EM and Mechanics</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Young Republicans
SciOly
Cofounder of the men's club (I know it sounds stupid, but we're working on doing a fundraiser for testicular cancer)
Business manager and writer for the school newspaper
Will be starting an internship at an immunology lab at a local university in the next couple of weeks
planning on volunteering at big brother big sister this summer
investing in the market on my own</p>

<p>Probable majors: microbiology, neuroscience, bioengineering, or aeronautical engineering</p>

<p>Rough idea of the schools I'm looking at:
Brown
Cornell
Johns Hopkins
Georgia Tech
University of Rochester (this is the school I'm I have the internship at. I also did a science program there last summer)
Ohio State (parents are alums)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute</p>

<p>Any comments are much appreciated</p>

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<p>Bump bump bump</p>

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<p>c’mon guys</p>

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<p>These are a bit hard to predict without definite SAT scores. The actual SAT and practice SAT were of different difficulties, at least to me. The Univ Rochester internship and program will definitely be helpful. Try to get a rec from your mentor at the lab. Also at Ohio, I think it is helpful having parent alums.That’s how it is at some schools around philly anyway. Your GPA is good though, so try to keep it that way. If you do well on the tests, then I think you have a somewhat decent chance of being admitted. Create another tread after you get SAT done (then you can begin intimidating other hopefuls with your app =]) Good Luck!
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<p>Thanks for the feedback. and I think i’m really gonna focus on the act because that’s the one that seems to be improving the most for me (bumped it up to a 33 today). will definitely make another thread once i get those scores.</p>