<p>Not really sure how this goes, but I'd love to have an opinion other than my mother and guidance counselor. </p>
<p>Gender: Female
Ethnicity: White
Grade: Junior</p>
<p>Courses
- AP Stats
- AP Chemistry
- AP English Lang
- AP US History
- AP Spanish
- Honors Pre Calc</p>
<p>Test Scores
SAT - 2230: 740M, 750W (10 essay), 740 CR
AP Human Geo - 5</p>
<p>GPA
- UW: 3.91
- W: 4.77</p>
<p>EC's
- Model UN since 9th grade (officer this year, hopefully president next year)
- Varsity Cheerleader since 9th grade (won nationals in 2012)
- NHS
- Spanish Honor Society
- Science Alliance (HS science students work with 5th graders on a science fair project)
- 200+ volunteer hours at local community center
- Mayor's Youth Commission
- Math tutor
- Intern with environmental policy/environmental engineering grad students at ASU
- Started a non-profit in AZ to equip low income housing projects with solar panels to lower energy bills
*Hopefully attending 6 week research camp at UC Davis this summer</p>
<p>I moved from the Phoenix metro area to Northern California this summer (between my sophomore and junior year), so I didn't really get a chance to develop my non-profit as much as I would have liked. However, I still maintain the accompanying website, that shares a variety of methods to lower energy usage while remaining conscious of the environment (what I was working on with ASU grad students).</p>
<p>I'm looking to major in Environmental/Alternative Energy Engineering and minor in Public Policy. </p>
<p>The schools on my list: </p>
<p>Out of State:
<strong><em>Columbia</em></strong> (the dream, Fu school of engineering and the core curriculum are everything I ever wanted)
Harvard
UChicago
Cornell (dad is alumni)
Georgetown
UNC
Vanderbilt</p>
<p>Instate:
UC Berkeley
UC San Diego
UC Davis
UC Los Angeles
UC Santa Barbara
USC</p>
<p>Am I a little too ambitious? What else can I do to secure my top choice (Columbia)? All opinions/help is necessary. Thanks!</p>
Your extracurriculars are really good and I think you should go for it. Do not be disappointed if you don’t get in. It’s not because you’re not good enough. Perfect applicants get rejected while non-perfect applicants may be accepted. Answer mine too please.</p>