Chance Me for Northeastern, BC, BU, Binghamton, etc

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hi, I’m a current junior that would like some baseline advice. I understand that many factors can change between now and application time senior year, but I am pretty unsure about where to start in terms of my college admissions process so any advice is appreciated.

State: NY
School Type: Public, somewhat competitive
Ethnicity: Asian ORM
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: ~150k
No hooks

SAT I: 1530 and 17 essay, planning on taking a second in March
ACT: N/A, may take one in April
SAT Subject Test: N/A, may take one or two depending on how much time I have to study this year
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.75
Weighted GPA: 3.85/4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
APs: World History (4), Human Geo (4), currently taking Calc AB, Lang, US History, Physics 1, will take Statistics, Physics C Mech, Macro, Comp Sci senior year.
Honors/Awards: will most likely be NMSF, NHS

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): JV XC 10-12, JV Winter Track 11-12, JV Spring Track 11-12, board positions on two school clubs, but both clubs aren’t anything serious like DECA or MUN, and my positions are not very high up.
Volunteer/Community service: ~650 hrs as summer camp volunteer TA since summer before 9th grade.
Essays: Don’t know yet but probably average
Teacher Recommendation: ^^

Colleges I’m Looking At:
Northeastern
BC
BU
Binghamton
Stony Brook
Fordham

My college list is very tentative and at the moment, it’s largely based on what people from my school apply to. I’m assuming the first three on my list are matches/low reach, and the last three are safeties/low matches. Please let me know if you have any recommendations. I would prefer a school located in the Northeast that doesn’t have a crazy high tuition price. I know my stats are very average for the most part, but at this point most of it will end up how I listed here. I have no idea what my major will be, but I’m not sure if being undecided will hurt me, though I’m leaning towards STEM majors. Hopefully my slightly lower grades in math and science (5-6 B-/B/B+ compared to A-/A/A+ everywhere else) will not hurt me.

Thanks for any advice!

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BC is a match, but most likely you will get in. Other than that, the rest you’ll probably get into. The 1530 SAT puts you over the top, really. Schools love high SAT because they want their ‘AVerage SAT’ stat on the US news to be high. Expect big merit money from Fordham, Northeastern, and potentially BU.

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I actually just read the part about your STEM grades… You are still in decent shape, but you might want to apply as a non stem in the schools which allow you to switch majors easily. Have you checked out University of Rochester?

Don’t get too caught up in the price. Apply, then see what you get. Then decide.

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Alright, I really appreciate the insight. I only know a little about the University of Rochester, but I’ll definitely look into it, thanks!