Chance//////Help with picking schools please

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>white male</p>

<p>SAT:
2360 on one sitting
2370 superscore (770 M, 800 CR, 800 W/11 essay)</p>

<p>National Merit semifinalist, scored 240 in ny...lol i dont think that i really needed to specify the state there</p>

<p>SAT IIs:
Math IIc: 800
US history: 790
taking Bio M in october</p>

<p>APs:
sophomore: Euro-5, Lit-4
junior: Chem-5, us history-5, macroeconomics-5
senior: calc AB</p>

<p>I am a IB diploma candidate also:
junior: Econ (SL)-7, Math methods (SL)-7
senior: English HL, bio HL, spanish SL, history of americas SL</p>

<p>GPA: 4.0 unweighted (all As and A+s final averages), lowest nys regents grade is 97. My school doesnt rank/tell us our weighted GPAs.</p>

<p>ECs:
-I have interned in a biology lab since 9th grade, and do around 25 hours per week there in the summer, around 15/week during school year. Emphasizing on common app/submitting abstract to colleges
-I also volunteer around 8 hrs/week starting this summer at a cancer hospital
-I work at habitat for humanity starting this summer, 6hrs/week
-Science/math tutor during school year
-math league since 9th grade
-fed challenge team leader for 11th/12th grade years
-geography team captain next year
-attended a 4 week long summer wilderness camp for 7 years
-newspaper writer for 11th/12th grades
-swimmer for both school and club team=our school division sucks, so i win a lot of stuff and go to sectionals by default. however, i am only ok and would not be able to swim at a level above D3.
helped coach middle school swim team-11/12
-lifeguard last summer</p>

<p>The schools (in order of preference):
Yale-SCEA
Columbia
UPenn
Dartmouth
Harvard - oh what the he** i guess i will try it :)
MIT
Amherst
Rochester - REMS program
UB (honors program)</p>

<p>now, that is 9 schools. i was hoping to keep it to ten, which means that i have ONE more spot...duh. </p>

<p>ideally, i would like to be pretty sure that i can get in this one so it would prob be #8 on my list. </p>

<p>my dad is really pushing WUSTL, why i do not know since unless it moves out of Missouri there is no way...</p>

<p>or northwestern. northwestern seems more sensible to me but what do you think?</p>

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<p>You have excellent academics.</p>

<p>Would you really want to go to Yale or UPenn over MIT?</p>

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<p>yes any...ANY day. i actually hated MIT when i went there i found it really dorky and i like the fact that yale and upenn balance studying with partying lol i try to be pretty normal.</p>

<p>the only reasons i am applying to mit are because its a good school and because my dad is making me lol because he wants to impress his brother who brags about my cousin going to mit ALL the time.</p>

<p>he is also making me apply to WUSTL because he is deluded and thinks that my research will win me a full scholarship there</p>

<p>but yeah when i went to mit the girl was like "we stayed up all night one time debating whethere pi or e was a better number!!!!!" and she was like actually excited</p>

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<p>Yeah, Northwestern.</p>

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<p>but yeah when i went to mit the girl was like "we stayed up all night one time debating whethere pi or e was a better number!!!!!" and she was like actually excited
MIT pretty dorky from what you said.</p>

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<p>yeah totally i dont know if i could handle it but my dad wants to go there so bad hahaha </p>

<p>i just hope i get in one of my top four that i listed and i will be completely happy</p>

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<p>Just make sure u make ur essays extra special.</p>

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<p>hahaha that is a tall order i have been procrastinating majorly on them...</p>

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<p>bummmmmmp anyone else want to chance/give advice?</p>

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<p>Nice numbers, SAT and GPA are excellent. What awards have u received???</p>