<p>Don’t take the 6 APs. Eight total is plenty. Any more will not help your chances, and you want to have SOME fun senior year. Come April, after you’ve already submitted all those apps and essays and have heard back your schools, do you really want to still be busting your butt with 6 APs? </p>
<p>Your strength at the elite schools is that you’re full pay. Full pay changes things. Elite schools will take the money of the full pays (about 55% of the students at Yale) so they can give it to the less-capable of paying. The 4.13 and the abundant APs will help. The CR+M will help. But there will be lots of applicants ahead of you with all this and more. Some of their “more” will be ECs like you and I can only laugh at. Don’t get me wrong. You worked very hard and did very well. </p>
<p>But even with your full pay hook, the 4.13 and the 1470 are going to make Hopkins, Mudd, and Texas tough. The Cali schools, PSU, Northwestern, and UMich probably will be glad to take your money. Georgia Tech might take a flyer on you; I don’t know the behavior of the school when it encounters this hook.</p>
<p>So in traditional format (for a non-traditional student):</p>
<p>Reach: Hopkins, Mudd, Texas (look at their admissions rates for OOS students, and they’re sitting on billions in oil reserves)</p>
<p>Match: Georgia Tech, UCB, UMich, Northwestern, UCLA</p>
<p>Safety: PSU, UConn, USD, UCSD</p>
<p>I’ve never heard a student say they wouldn’t mind going to JHU! </p>