Chance me/looking for college suggestions

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Gender: F
Ethnicity: Asian (Chinese)
College Class Year: 2011
High School: Public
High School Type: sends many grads to top schools
Will apply for financial aid: Yes</p>

<p>Academics:</p>

<p>GPA - Unweighted: 4.00
GPA - Weighted: 4.78
Class Size: 700 ish
Rank - Hopefully top 10% (school doesn't release until September)</p>

<p>Scores:</p>

<p>SAT I Math: 770
SAT I Critical Reading: 790
SAT I Writing: 750
Composite: 2310 (one sitting)
SAT II Literature: 800
SAT II U.S. History: 800
SAT II Math Level 1 (IC): 750
SAT II Math Level 2 (IIC): 770
SAT II Biology - M: 800</p>

<p>Significant Extracurriculars: Choir (3 years)
Debate (3 years)
SOS (science tutoring club; 4 years; officer position)
Red Cross (1 year)
If approved, starting a Literary Magazine senior year</p>

<p>Volunteer/Service Work: Summer volunteer at hospital (>200 hours)
Also volunteered at a local Chinese School and library</p>

<p>Work experience: Working as a TA for a theater camp for kids this summer</p>

<p>Honors and Awards: Scholastic Art and Writing (Gold Key) - also received a special Trustees Exemplary Award for the same story
UIL Spelling (5th in district)
UIL Solo and Ensemble (Silver Medal)
National Qualifier for Congressional Debate
NHS</p>

<p>I'm planning to major in Biochemistry or Biology (pre-med). The colleges I'm currently looking at are Yale, Stanford, UPenn, Duke, JHU, Emory, Rice, Wake Forest, UT-Austin, and Texas A+M. I'd like to be chanced for these colleges. I also welcome suggestions as to some good mid-tiered colleges for me to apply to.</p>

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<p>bump
Please? Anyone?</p>

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<p>Yale-JHU are all reaches for anyone, and the rest should be fairly secure.</p>

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<p>Your testing scores are pretty impressive, so you should be a good candidate for all of the schools</p>

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<p>Very weak extra curricular activites. Everything is a match except for Stanford, Yale, and University of Pennsylvania. For biochem you may also find interesting California Institute of Technology, Reed College, and Swarthmore College.</p>

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<p>Obviously you know what you’re doing, and are very intelligent. However, I would have to agree that your extracurricular activities appear weak. Just try reaching out and having fun! Honestly, I do a lot of extracurriculars but not once have I ever joined one simply for college. Find stuff you’re into and do it!</p>

<p>Also, might I recommend U of M and Madison? Great schools that you’d have no trouble getting into (although I believe Mad-town requires the ACT instead of the SAT)</p>

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<p>Madison doesn’t require the ACT, but because it is a midwest school, the vast majority of students there use the ACT (I’m from Wisconsin, and I know a lot of kids who go there - it really isn’t all that hard to get in).</p>

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<p>Thanks for the feedback, everyone. I know my ECs are weak, but it’s a bit too late to do much about them now, I’m a rising senior. I’ll look into the colleges everyone recommended. If anyone has more suggestions, please post!</p>

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<p>Might look at Holy Cross-great pre-med program. Holy Cross has very nice campus-1 hour from Boston.</p>

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<p>Unfortunately, I’m not religious so I don’t think I would fit in there.</p>

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<p>Sorry to double post, but I thought of some more questions.
Will my lack of science-related ECs hurt me since I’m most likely majoring in a science?
and What’s a good university (out of the ones I picked) to ED to (considering I’ll need financial aid).</p>

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<p>ED is for your one dream school above all others. Since you don’t have one, you should compare various FA offers at RD time.</p>

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<p>OP: About the science related EC’s, i think the SOS thing you mentioned is great and I’m assuming you took a lot of and did well in your science classes. That should be enough to show your passion for science, or at least i think so. Also, I’m not sure if colleges use the intended major in admissions…does anyone know?</p>