<p>I am a rising junior at a college prep school in the mid-atlantic region. </p>
<p>Academics:
My freshman year, I had a 3.7 UW GPA. I took 3 out of 4 available honors courses.
In my sophomore year, I had a 3.9 UW GPA and took 4 out of 5 available honors courses.
I am going to take 2 honors courses and 2 AP courses my junior year and am going to work as hard as I can to maintain a 4.0 UW GPA.
As for standardized test scores, I did poorly on my practice PSATs that I took my sophomore year, scoring a little above 1600. Apparently colleges won't see these scores, as they were PRACTICE PSATs, but I don't know if that's entirely true because I received letters from colleges throughout the year after taking them. I also took the PLAN test and my score translated to a 34 on the real ACT. I wasn't trying as hard as I could with that test however and think I could definitely do better on the real ACT.
Now, after studying a great deal I have reached much better scores on practice SAT tests I am taking from the CollegeBoard book. I have reached 780s in both critical reading and writing, and up to a 640 in math (which could still use some work but I'm steadily getting better). I am aiming for 2200 or above.
In my state, which has lower scores to qualify for National Merit Scholarship than some other states, I am trying to get even just a Letter of Condemnation for the NMSQT but that's still a reach because of my math scores.
Senior year I expect to be taking two honors courses and 4 AP courses and to maintain a 4.0 GPA as well even though I know colleges probably won't see those grades.
As for SAT 2s I plan to take two or three and hope to score at least a 700 on all of them.</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
By senior year I will have played 3 going on 4 years of lacrosse, and hope to play the last two years Varsity.
I will have done multiple plays/musicals for my schools theatre, 2 years of newspaper club, 4 years of two different community service clubs, both of which I currently hold and will still hold leadership positions. I've had some of my writing published by my school. I also volunteer for my local soup kitchen all throughout the year, summer included. </p>
<p>I have legacy at UPenn, Duke, and UNC Chapel Hill. I am a white female and don't plan to need financial aid (I know some schools aren't "needs blind"). I have already visited multiple colleges on tours and plan to visit all of the schools I apply to at least once on record.</p>
<p>The schools I am thinking of applying to are:
Carnegie Mellon
Emory
Lehigh
UNC Chapel Hill
Franklin & Marshall
Wake Forest
Davidson
Boston College
Duke
NYU
Penn State/Shreyer College
UPenn
Villanova
Georgetown</p>
<p>I know this is a long list... If you could help me narrow it down that'd be great. Or feel free to suggest other schools, preferably on the East Coast, that seem to be good matches. Also, I know I still haven't completed Junior Year and therefore aren't yet sure what my SAT scores, ACT scores, junior year grades... will be. If you could give me a prospective outlook that'd be great, if I get a 2200 on my SATS (I know this is a difficult endeavor), a 34 ACT, 700s on my SAT2s... and the 4.0 I want to get... will my chances look good for any of the colleges above? I'm trying to be realistic and probably only going to apply to one Ivy, the one I'm legacy at. Thank you so much for your help, if you have any other questions I'd be happy to answer them. </p>