<p>Major: Double major in biomedical engineering and business management and administration (engineering and business)
Schools: Bucknell, Lehigh, UVA, NYU, UCONN, Syracuse, UNC Chapel Hill, Northeastern</p>
<p>GPA: UW: 3.9, W: 4.35
Rank: top 2%
ACT: 30 (English: 31 math: 28 reading: 31 science: 28 essay: 9)
SAT: 1780 (not submitting)
SAT 2's: Math I: 660, Bio: 560 (not sending)
AP's: (Junior year)Bio (3) Lit (4) probs not gonna submit that one
(Senior year)Calc AB, psych, lang</p>
<p>All classes are honors or ap; only received a b+ twice (freshman year bio, ap lang senior year)</p>
<p>Work experience:
-Retirement home for 2 years
-Kid's gym for 1 year</p>
<p>Volunteer Service/leadership:
-Owner of my own jewelry business since 8th grade (20% of proceeds went to JDRF and Susan G. Komen)
-youth wrestling tournament volunteer
-Caritas club (service events to raise money for medical disease awareness)
-Key club bake sales/ other fundraisers</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
-Manager of Varsity Wrestling team 4 years
-Member of executive council
-Member of key club
-Member of caritas club
-Member of Deca</p>
<p>Region: CT
Income: Lower middle class, will need aid
Sex: Female</p>
<p>UVA is a reach because you are an OOS and your ACT score and ECs are not competitive enough to out-compete in state kids.
If you need aid a lot, scratch off NYU. It has really bad aid, and the reputation is so bad that the school is trying to gain some funds.
UNC-Chapel hill is a reach too because of same thing: SAT and ACT. UNC Chapel Hill for OOS is harder than Cornell, if I remember correctly. </p>
<p>Northeastern/Bucknell may be a low reach-high match.</p>
<p>Syracuse-probably low match
Uconn: match</p>
<p>How much can you pay per year?</p>
<p>@paul2752 You think my ACT is too low for UNC and UVA? i thought it was at least in target range. And for extracurriculars, I devote a large amount of time to DECA and the wrestling team while participating in regular service activities weekly for key club so it’s hard to add much more on top of working 20+ hours at my jobs a week and having my own business on the side. Would you say my grades and gpa may make up for losses in those areas? I am also ranked 9 out of my class of 600 students.</p>
<p>@paul2752 I forgot to add in that I tutor twice a week and I’m in national honor society</p>
<p>Well yea 30 is in the lower target range but you are an OOSer who needs aid 
this makes uva and unc very difficult but I have heard of several kids with lower scores achieving it by writing a killer essay or having ECs that hooked the adcom. Just put your all into your app and hope for the best 
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<p>UVA- reach (might be less of a reach as UVA loves a high gpa)
UNC- reach
Lehigh- high match / low reach
Bucknell- high match
Northeastern- match
Syracuse- low match
Uconn- low/mid match </p>
<p>All the best!!</p>
<p>UNC and UVA are public schools that are incredibly competitive for out of state students. This is due to the fact that they are mandated by the state to accept a certain amount of instate students. Due to this, the spots remaining for OOS students istare more competitive than those instate. Your class rank is competitive (I’m impressed that you own your own business alongside this), but so will many of the other applicants. Added to that UNC-CH and UVA are one of the few publics that meet aid for OOS students, then it is a reach due to many students out there</p>
<p>I currently attend W&M, another VA school with a similar acceptance rate as UVA. (Coincidentally also from Connecticut) Two of my other good friends (who went to nationals with me in an academic competition) also applied, but unfortunately were rejected, so I understand how competitive it can be.</p>
<p>Other than that, I agree with the above, putting Bucknell and Lehigh at a low-reach, high match. Northeastern as a high match, and UConn as a safety</p>
<p>Green girl, these two are most competitive state schools for Oos, and you have to have much better score than in state kids.</p>
<p>UNC only takes 25% OOS. UVA takes about 30% but meets financial need. It is worth a gamble on UVA if your scores are competitive. In VA VCU has both of your majors and gives aid. The engineering school is only 20% female so maybe you’d get some aid. You need some safeties.</p>
<p><a href=“VCU College of Engineering - Wikipedia”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCU_School_of_Engineering</a></p>
<p>@kinaralah Overall you would say that I have a decent variety of schools I am applying to though? Do I need to add another safety or remove any?</p>
<p>I genuinely believe you should add more safeties or low matches. I do feel you will probably get one of your reach ish schools but just in case right? There are several cases of people not getting any of their schools here , you never know! Just add some just in case :)</p>