Chance me please!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Ok so I am getting ready to start sending applications but I'm not exactly sure which schools would be a reach and which ones would be a reality. Any advice would be extremely helpful.
My profile:
Unweighted GPA: 3.6/4.0
Weighted GPA: 3.8/4.0</p>

<p>Class rank: 52/515</p>

<p>Course load:
•sophomore year
-- AP world history ( exam score=3)
•junior year
--AP environmental science (exam score = 4)
--AP English III(exam score=4)
--AP US history(exam score=5)
•senior year
-- AP government
-- AP English IV
-- AP calculus BC
-- AP Phyisics C
-- AP Macroeconomics
^^^---( will take these AP exams in May 2014</p>

<p>SAT
Critical reading: 650
Math: 710
Writing: 570
Total: 1930
- I plan on taking the SAT again very soon, and 2 SAT subject tests(us history, math 2)within the month.</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Club Soccer: ~ 8 years
School soccer: 4 years</p>

<p>Community service/work
+60 hours of community service
Lifeguard(work):
• 4 years
-- +35 hours/week during summers
-- 10-15 hours/week during winters</p>

<p>Leadership:
-- varsity soccer captain: 1 year
-- head lifeguard( manager position): 1 year</p>

<p>Awards:
AP Scholar with honor
National Hispanic Merit Scholar</p>

<p>NOTE: missed over 20 days every year due to illness & diagnosis of common variable immunodeficiency disorder(immune disorder) which had to be treated monthly with blood transfusions</p>

<p>I am primarily interested in pursuing a degree in engineering or a natural science such as physics.</p>

<p>List of schools:
NYU
UT Austin
Missouri university of science and technology
Fordham
Cornell
Rice
CO school of mines
University of British Columbia
University of Arizona: flagstaff
SMU</p>

<p>Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thankyou!</p>

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<p>How much can your parents pay? What state do you live in?</p>

<p>By NYU I assume you mean PINYU?</p>

<p>Cornell is a high to impossible reach but you can try just to say “I tried”.</p>

<p>UT Austin: probably not possible since you’re not 7% for the sciences, and it’s even harder for engineering.</p>

<p>Rice is a reach but possible.</p>

<p>Missouri Tech, CO School of Mines, SMU : match</p>

<p>UBC = high reach (they like to see all 5s on the AP exam, or 700+ on each SAT test)</p>

<p>A big unknown with your list is financial aid (need based? merit?) If you’re full pay it may help you at the public universities since they’re so cash-strapped (in some states funding has been cut by 1/3 or more) that they’ll give preference to full pay applicants who meet the basic minimum criteria. Other public universities, like the UCs, figure it’s not their problem if they admit you and you can’t pay the $50,000 cost.</p>