<p>really wanna go to ny for college..<em>love</em> the city:)</p>
<p>African-american female in good ol jersey
public school- sends 1-2 kids to top schools per yr
major: mayb bio</p>
<p>3.97 uw GPA 4.2something w
Sat: 1980-2100(projected)
SAT II..taking Bio, History and English Lit</p>
<p>Currently taking
AP US HIstory-A
AP Biology-A
Enriched eng III-A
sociology..ect-A</p>
<p>Will take
AP World
AP Physics B
AP English Lit
Student Research internship with bio dept teacher (rec from her should be really good)</p>
<p>Ec's
-Cornell nanobiotechnology summer research internship
-Lockheed martin Engineering program
-Varsity Tennis (captain)-4 yrs
-school news staff-3 yrs
-Model congress leader-3 yrs
-model UN
- habitat for humanity-2 yrs
- Hospital volunteer work-2 yrs
- applying to Mites this yr
- Science league team- 2 yrs
- tutoring-2 yrs
- MSAA/MRI Institutes volubnteering-VERY involved (3 years)
-Babysitting for a christian foundation 4 yrs
-youth achievers committee
-national society of black engineers youth initiative
-tennis instructor at summer academy this summer</p>
<p>various awards..great essays!..my favorite part
recs will be very good as well</p>
<p>parents emigrated here in 92 with my 3 sisters in order to give us a better chance at a good education</p>
<p>i did post this before in the chances board a while ago.. but i want to see opinions from here specifically</p>
<p>My opinion comes from D-Sr this year-WL at Columbia-SATs should be higher(hers were MUCH higher)---otherwise your stats seem to match--with competition fierce amongst female applicants due to high numbers born durning this time---consider Columbia--and keep others on the radar screen just in case.Good Luck-you have worked hard!!!</p>
<p>good chance. one advice i want to give you is to not write "i love NY" for the reason why you want to go to columbia. an admissions officer told me that they will just question why you didn't apply to the handful other "great schools" in nyc.</p>
<p>with so much engineering stuff under your belt, why not apply to SEAS instead? a little bit easier to get into and it seems your interests tailor better to it</p>
<p>also, ditto on raising the SATs, try for over at LEAST 2050...2200 would be much better</p>
<p>not sure where else u should apply until you can answer my first question about engineering</p>
<p>ah...well then you'll have to major in an engineering discipline...biomedical or chemical would probably work well for you...do you plan on going pre-med?</p>
<p>as for other schools...i can tell you where i applied which might help:
Rennselear Polytech Inst.
Worcester Polytech Inst.
Cornell Eng.
Carnegie-Mellon
VA Tech (tho i was a VA resident at the time)
and MIT</p>