<p>So I'm going to be a senior this year in High School - and applying to college in a few months time. My parents have been bugging me to put together a preliminary college list, so they have an idea of what I'm doing. Only problem is, they have Ivy aspirations for me, and despite trying to convince them otherwise, they think I can get into Harvard, Princeton, etc; which, I can't. (college list below). </p>
<p>My Credentials: (Nothing too impressive...if anything, average)</p>
<p>Sex: Male
Ethnicity: 1st gen, parents from nigeria
Location: Washington State</p>
<p>Total AP Classes Taken/Going to take: 7/4
two 5's, a bunch of 4's and one 3 (AP chem)</p>
<p>School Doesn't Rank
GPA: 3.83 (School doesn't weight grades...probably a 4.4ish weighted)</p>
<p>Planned Senior Courses: AP Econ, Lit, Calc and Physics + Spanish (3rd year) and Digital Photo</p>
<p>Extracurriculars: Basketball (1 yr), Football(2yr) and Track and Field(4yr)
-Football team was 2nd in State,
-Track team 2nd in state, I came in 6th place in 100m, 4th in 4x100 and 9th in 400 two years in a row
-Scholar Athlete + Most Valuable Player
-National Honor Society, Key Club, Spanish Club
-Science Olympiad
-Volunteer at Hospital</p>
<p>PSAT: Don't worry 'bout it
SAT: 1880 (I know...its horrible... I'm going to retake it in October) Math 610, CR 630, Writing 640</p>
<p>SAT II: Biology E/M: 740, World History 650 (I'm not letting any college see this)
Plan to take: Math 2 and US History in November or something</p>
<p>Awards:
All the regular stuff...Honor roll, scholar athlete, diversity stuff, etc</p>
<p>Other:
I'm a URM? 1st gen, parents from nigeria</p>
<p>Umm...thats about it...I haven't invented anything or cured cancer or whatnot...</p>
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<p>Chance me at these Schools please:
I'm not listing any safeties, cause ill know ill get into them...</p>
<p>HYPSM (just for kicks)
Stanford (same as above)</p>
<p>The Claremont Colleges (Panoma and Harvey Mudd)
Washington University in St. Louis
University of the Pacific
University of Washington</p>
<p>Plus if anyone has any suggestions for schools to apply to, post it. I'm more interested in private schools, cause they tend to give better scholarships. Which is why I didn't apply to any UCs, cause I'm not going to get any money (California is hella broke) and ill have to pay the out-of-state tuition. I'm mainly looking at schools on the west coast, but hey, if anyone has a suggestion, post it.</p>
<p>My parents have a limited amount for college (I mean, extremely limited), so trying to get into a private university is probable a better choice. I'm aiming to become a pharmacist - or something in a med field, cause i like science more that i like history (I HATE history).</p>