Chances at top schools- high school junior

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi,
I am a junior from New York who is looking for advice on choosing colleges to apply to next year. I have a starter list and any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.</p>

<p>Stats:
GPA:94.5/100
SAT:2190
Math-710
Verbal-750
Writing-730
SATII:
World History-750
Biology-690 (will retake in June. just finished AP biology so hopefully 750-800)
Math 2 take in June</p>

<p>Schedule:
All honors classes except for 2 half year electives (philosophy and bioethics)
AP World History (5) sophomore
AP Biology (will find out this summer)
AP US History (will find out this summer)</p>

<p>Senior Year Schedule:
AP Physics
AP Spanish
AP Calculus AB
AP Literature
AP European History
Economics/Public Affairs</p>

<p>Extra Curriculars:
Science Research (worked in lab at Yale University for sophomore summer + will work this junior summer and senior summer on cancer biology)
Competed in regional fairs and advanced to two regional fairs </p>

<p>Founder/President Biology Club 10,11,12
Socratic Debate Club 9,10,11,12
Secretary now president Mock Trial 9,10,11,12
Model Congress (awards at several conferences)10,11,12
Newspaper9,10,11,12
Junior Varsity Soccer 9,10
Varsity Golf9,10,11,12 (probably captain next year)</p>

<p>Recomendations:
AP World Teacher 10th grade
AP Biology Teacher 11th grade
Mentor at lab (head of lab)</p>

<p>Possible Colleges:
Yale
UPENN
Brown
Georgetown (early action probably)
Johns Hopkins
Northwestern
Boston College
University of Virginia
New York University
Boston University
George Washington University</p>

<p>Any comments/suggestions/chances on admissions for these schools would be helpful</p>

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<p>ethnicity? </p>

<p>raise SAT scores</p>

<p>yale, UPenn, Brown are all high reaches, the rest are possible / good shot. the research seems impressive</p>

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<p>race: white
I forgot to mention national honor society, merit scholarship semifinalist, high honor roll all quarters of high school.</p>

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<p>I am probably going to take SATs again in October and hopefully get them into the mid-low 2200's.</p>

<p>thanks explode for your response</p>

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<p>with your recs, i dont know if youve already asked the teachers or if its (really) bad taste to 'unask' one but I think colleges prefer if both your teacher recs come from 11th grade teachers</p>

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<p>and yeah, choose carefully bc sometimes recs and essays can put u over the top</p>

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<p>I know ideally 2 11th grade teachers are the best but I think my 10th grade AP World teacher will write me a better recomendation than any other 11th grade teacher. What do you think? Should I sacrafice that one grade below for a better and more personal recomendation or should I find another 11th grade teacher?
Also, is there a way to edit my first post?</p>

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<p>no you cant edit your first post after 10 min or something like that
depends on how well the 11th gr teachers know you/ like you</p>