<p>I'm a junior at a school that was given a Silver Medal by US News & World Report.</p>
<p>Colleges I plan to apply to:
-Harvard
-MIT
-Yale
-Princeton
-Duke
-Cornell
-Dartmouth
-Stanford
-UC-San Diego
-USC
-UC-Berkeley
-UCLA
-CalTech
-Pomona
-Amherst
-Boston College
-Boston University
-Brown
-NYU
-College of William & Mary
-Rice
-AZ State University
-University of AZ</p>
<p>-Half Korean, Half White (mom went to university in S. Korea)
-middle income</p>
<p>SAT (01.2013): 2170 (CR - 650 || W - 750 (10 E) || M - 770) - will retake in June
SAT IIs: Biology-M (06.2012 and 12.2012): 650 || Math Level II (06.2012): 800
PSAT: 227 (NMSF)
APs: Biology (4) || European History (4) (both taken sophomore year)
Weighted GPA: highest in class size of ~425.
Unweighted GPA: 4.0</p>
<p>Classes -
Soph: AP Bio, AP Euro, H. Physics, H. Chem, H. English, H. Precalc, Spanish, Band (1 sem)
Junior: APUSH, AP Lit, AP Chem, AP Calc BC, Spanish, Band (1 sem), Anatomy (1 sem)
Senior: 5 APs (not sure which yet), Anatomy (1 sem), Band (1 sem)</p>
<p>Awards/ECs - To avoid being google-fu-ed by colleges/friends (lul) I uploaded a pic of them here: part</a> 1 and [url=<a href="http://tinypic.com/r/x1el4y/6%5Dpart">http://tinypic.com/r/x1el4y/6]part</a> 2<a href="sorry%20for%20formatting%20but%20I%20copied/pasted%20from%20a%20summer%20program%20app%20lol">/url</a></p>
<p>Ivies: low reach
All else: match-high match</p>
<p>Thanks(:
Other comments would be appreciated ^__^</p>
<p>I agree with Omari</p>
<p>if you get your test scores up (specially your SAT) you have a solid chance at HYPSM etc</p>
<p>Based upon the experience of my son last year, his friends, my friend’s kids, and my brother’s kids, no matter how hard you may think it is to get into a top 20 school, it is even harder.</p>
<p>My son received lots of wait lists.</p>
<p>My advice would be to concentrate more on schools ranked 15-30.</p>
<p>No harm applying to Harvard and Yale, but the acceptance rates are so low that there is really just a slim chance. It is almost a waste of money.</p>
<p>I think your ECs are pretty strong, especially since they show several areas of focus instead of being randomly scattered. Your SAT scores might hold you back a bit though. Are you planning on taking another SAT II or just leaving it as it is (since I’m not too sure, but 650 might be a bit on the low side)?</p>
<p>I’m not too familiar with some of the schools you listed (especially the last few), but I think that the ivies are probably a low reach, since while you have the ECs, and GPA (and probably SAT scores when you retake) to have a good chance, those schools have extremely low admission rates. The other schools you listed are, in my opinion, mostly matches.</p>
<p>-Harvard - reach
-MIT - low reach
-Yale - reach
-Princeton - reach
-Duke - reach
-Cornell - high match
-Dartmouth - low reach
-Stanford - reach
-UC-San Diego - low match
-USC - low match
-UC-Berkeley - match
-UCLA - low match
-CalTech - high match
-Pomona - high match
-Amherst - high match
-Boston College - low match
-Boston University - safety
-Brown - low reach
-NYU - low match
-College of William & Mary - match
-Rice - high match
-AZ State University - safety, low match at Barrett Honors College
-University of AZ - safety</p>
<p>Oops I typoed my SAT II Bio score - it’s actually a 690.
Hmm so I should apply to more state schools like UMich and UWisconsin?</p>
<p>I would say Improve your Bio SATII and SAT 1… write killer essays… and you’re in all of them XP…</p>
<p>But again… don’t ask me! :D</p>
<p>bump? any other opinions?</p>
<p>Twenty universities is way too many. I think even 10 is too many but cut it down to at least 10. - 4-dream schools. 4 almost dream schools. 2 safetys.</p>
<p>Apply to universities like Umich or University of Wisconsin not Arizona State. Get the SAT score over 2250 and you have a chance at the ivies. You should be in at colleges like Boston University though</p>