<p>Hey guys, so I have posted this before, but I didn't really have a solid list of schools.As said in the title I did have special circumstances, its explained at the bottom. Its still a work in progress so chance me and suggest if I need more safeties/ matches/ reaches. And suggest more schools preferably small, rural, in nh, vt, me or ny with great financial aid and a respectable physics/ astronomy department.</p>
<p>The schools:
-princeton
-dartmouth
-mit
-wesleyan
-barnard
-boston u
-alfred u
-hamilton college</p>
<p>Stats
-4.0 unweighted gpa
-33 ACT
-2220 SAT (first try on act and sat, will retake one of them)
-97 NYS Trig Regents (all regents are out of 100)
-97 NYS Bio Regents
-98 NYS Earth Science Regents
-95 NYS Geometry Regents
-I plan to take SAT II Math 2, Chemistry, and World History
-rank 1 (but only out of 35)
-I'm graduating from high school in three years instead of 4 ( will graduate next year)</p>
<p>ECs
-Senior band flautist (all county twice, very high scores at nyssma, playing a level 6 this year)
-Jazz band saxophonist
-marching band
-varsity ski team (since 7th grade)
-varsity tennis team (since 8th grade)
-treasurer of science club
-national honor society
-event coordinator for my class
-student council representative
-vice president of local interact rotary club
-Junior Olympian and nationally ranked for freestyle mogul skiing singles and duels ( the big one)</p>
<p>Community service
-Family severely affected by Hurricane Irene, my town was absolutely destroyed, over 250 volunteer hours cleaning up the town after the storm.
-Math and science tutoring for both young students and peers.
-~100 other hours</p>
<p>Other
-Kopernik astronomy camp on string theory
- applied to many research camps for this summer
-I co-own a business which involves many hours of making the product (fudge), selling it and traveling to fairs. I also work on weekends at a small gourmet store/cafe.
-Will have AP US History, AP English Lit, AP Calc, (that is all the AP my school offers) college course in government (freshman year), college course in economics (freshman year), 5 years of Spanish (2 years college level), college course in statistics
-I live in an incredibly rural part of New York in the Catskills, I don't think anyone from my school has gone to any ivy except Cornell (and that only happens once ever 8 years or so).
-I'm a white female and my family makes under 40k with tons of debt from irene
- my family had a really tough time, in quick succession my father was diagnosed with prostate cancer, then hurricane irene hit, then my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, then i got ankle surgery, then my grandma died, then my brother blew out his knee. Although my grades never dropped, this is something I will definitely discuss in my essays or an extra explanation.</p>
