Chance me please!

Colleges and Universities A-Z Columbia University
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<p>I'm a junior and will be applying to schools in the fall. I haven't quite decided what some good schools would be though. Which ivy leagues and UC's do I have a change at? Also what about Johns Hopkins,USC, Northwestern, or U of Chicago. Thanks so much, I appreciate it!</p>

<p>SAT: 2250 (M-760, CR-750, W-740)
Sophomore GPA: 4.0 unweighted, 4.15 weighted 1 AP (5)
Junior GPA: 4.0 unweighted, 4.5 unweighted 3 AP’s (5,4,4)
I’ve only gotten one B through High school in my freshman year in PE.
Next year I’ll be taking AP stats, AP calc, AP gov, AP microeconomics, AP italian, AP Physics
Hopefully a national merit commended student, 220 on my PSAT (I find out in the fall)
150+ community service: tutoring, hospital
I started a club called lets (lets erase the stigma)
LETS Educational Foundation is saving kids today from tomorrow by ERASING the stigma of mental illness.
2 instruments- I play very very well (Piano-12 years, Flute-7) with many awards
2 varsity sports
I speak another language fluently, I can read and write.
I have worked at nordstrom and many camps (tennis camp, educational camp)
I’m in a top orchestra in my area and wrote a score of my favorite movie that my orchestra played
I take lessons to further improve my farsi (the language I am fluent in)
SAT II: Math II: 760
Biology: 740</p>

<p>I plan on attaching my own short story written in farsi as well.</p>

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<p>Don’t just apply to a school for its prestige, apply because you think you’d be a good fit. I have a lot of friends who applied to 20+ “top ranked” schools who got incredibly burned out during the application process and ended up writing poorer quality essays because of it. Spend your summer researching a handful of schools that you think you’d be interested in and apply to them. Do you like the idea of living in an urban environment? Apply to Columbia or Penn. Do you prefer the suburbs? Apply to Harvard, Northwestern, etc. Your numbers and ECs are in the ballpark for the places you mentioned, but nothing that jumps off the page, which means that you’ll need to kick ass on your essays. Good luck.</p>