Chances (need help getting reaches, matches, and safeties

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>GPA: 3.98 uw, not sure about weighted
Rank: top 5%
SAT: 2210 (800 CR, 750 M, 660 W)
ACT: 35
SAT II: Math II: 720, Bio: 680, US: 660, Physics: 650
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Income bracket: $200,000<</p>

<p>EC's: Varsity Soccer (captain)
Varsity Winter/SpringTrack (captain)
Jazz Band, Band
Youth Wind Ensemble
Intern at NYU Neurology
Boys' State
Part time job
Academic Team (captain)
Peer Leadership Club
Economics for Leaders
Church Youth Group (associated charity work)
Plays trumpet for Salvation Army</p>

<p>Teacher Recs: Best in career
Counselor Rec: One of best in career</p>

<p>Please feel free to ask for additional information. Intended major is either CompEng, CompSci, Economics, or some combination of any of them. Thank you for your input!</p>

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<p>Most rigorous schedule available, Honor Society, National Merit something or other, Oberlin Book Award, Athletic Honors, academic awards, volunteer referee, coached disabled kids in soccer, 5 on AP Euro (awaiting this year’s scores), etc. Please excuse how disorganized this post is. Things keep popping into my head.</p>

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<p>Bump! Just need a little advice, CC.</p>

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<p>I think NYU would be a good match for you, to be honest its kind of hard to just pick out schools for someone as we don’t really know if their interests fit into the school. For instance your asking for safeties but you didn’t even tell us your state of residence. Anyway I wish you the best of luck, I suggest you use collegeboard and usnews to find schools that you could possibly be interested in.</p>

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<p>I’ve been researching a lot, but I need some objective advice. I’m in NY if it helps. I’d like to stay clear of SUNYs if possible. Anyone else?</p>

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<p>Wow, you seems like you could fit in almost anywhere, but your EC’s seem like they’re more spread out as opposed to having huge depth, though they’re still good. You should be able to get into NYU with your stats. Maybe for Ivy’s you could try Cornell, Columbia, Upenn, they’re bigger and seem like it’s more your style. So since your EC’s show a wide range of interest you should go to larger school. Some other ones maybe reaches like the Ivy’s, could be Northwestern or UChicago. For matches would be NYU, University of Michigan, UCLA, USC. Safeties would be well you, well since you’re into church, try Pepperdine, SMU. But you seem like you have a good shot to go to any college!</p>

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<p>Thank you @pikakei! Church affiliation is definitely not a factor, but I’ll look into both. Anyone else?</p>

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<p>Bump :slight_smile: hehe</p>

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<p>Anyone else? I’m looking at a CompSci/Finance double major or major/minor.</p>

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<p>Carnegie Mellon <a href=“http://www.cs.cmu.edu/[/url]”>http://www.cs.cmu.edu/&lt;/a&gt;
Cornell <a href=“http://www.cs.cornell.edu/[/url]”>Home | Department of Computer Science;
UMich <a href=“http://www.eecs.umich.edu/[/url]”>http://www.eecs.umich.edu/&lt;/a&gt;
MIT
Berkeley <a href=“http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/[/url]”>EECS at UC Berkeley |;
UVA <a href=“http://www.cs.virginia.edu/[/url]”>http://www.cs.virginia.edu/&lt;/a&gt;
University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign <a href=“http://cs.illinois.edu/[/url]”>http://cs.illinois.edu/&lt;/a&gt;
Georgia Institute of Technology <a href=“http://www.cc.gatech.edu/[/url]”>http://www.cc.gatech.edu/&lt;/a&gt;
University of Texas–Austin <a href=“http://www.cs.utexas.edu/[/url]”>Department of Computer Science;
Case Western Reserve <a href=“http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:B8-50laITWoJ:www.eecs.cwru.edu/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us[/url]”>http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:B8-50laITWoJ:www.eecs.cwru.edu/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&lt;/a&gt;
Penn Engineering CS <a href=“http://www.cis.upenn.edu/[/url]”>http://www.cis.upenn.edu/&lt;/a&gt;
Georgetown CS [Georgetown</a> Computer Science: Home](<a href=“http://www.cs.georgetown.edu/]Georgetown”>http://www.cs.georgetown.edu/)
BC CS <a href=“http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/cs/[/url]”>http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/cs/&lt;/a&gt;
Duke cs [Computer</a> Science - Duke University](<a href=“http://www.cs.duke.edu/]Computer”>http://www.cs.duke.edu/)
Brown CS [Brown</a> University Department of Computer Science](<a href=“http://www.cs.brown.edu/]Brown”>http://www.cs.brown.edu/)
Johns Hopkins</p>

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<p>@moltobene18, you are a scholar and a gentleman.</p>

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<p>Lehigh has a dual engineering/ business degree.
stevens tech has quantitative finance degree, which is a lot of finance, math and programming.
Cmu has a strong cs and qf ms degree.</p>

<p>Sent from my DROID RAZR using CC</p>

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<p>If you want a couple of reaches, I would say MIT and Berkeley may fit the bill, as they are both math and science heavy.</p>

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<p>Thank you @marymac and @UDUBHUSKIES. Anyone else for matches and safeties?</p>

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<p>Or reaches…any advice is gratefully accepted.</p>