College Suggestions? help me narrow down and adjust list!

College Search & Selection
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<p>So recently I have had some trouble narrowing down my list but also I would like to know if there are any definite fit schools for me. Here are my stats:</p>

<p>Male, NY resident, Asian, attending well known and prestigious public HS</p>

<p>SAT: 1920, taking again in October expecting ~2050
SAT II's: Math and US: both in low 700's</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA 3.25 (I really didnt care freshman year, so there is a bit of an upward trend)</p>

<p>Taking AP Stat and Calc AB next year(Senior year)
-Course load is slightly rigorous in terms of math and science
EC's</p>

<p>lots of hockey, 3 year varsity + tier I teams outside of school
Lacrosse 3 years
~50 hours volunteer coaching hockey to disabled
~200 hours teacher assistant at local sunday school
2 summers research at NY Medical College</p>

<p>-good recs from english and chemistry teachers
-PRE MED
-money not really an issue, no alumni
-prefer big, urban or suburban schools</p>

<p>some schools that are already on my list are</p>

<p>BU
NEU
SUNYs
NYU
Syracuse
Towson
Trinity
Union
University of VT, WI (Madison), Pittsburgh, Maryland (CP), Mass (Amherst), Delaware, Miami
GWU
Lehigh
Marist
Loyola
American</p>

<p>As you can see I have some narrowing down to do..
Thanks!</p>

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<p>bumppppppp please help me out!!!</p>

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<p>You’re GPA is very low for most of the schools you are looking at. G-Town and NYU are definite reaches. I’d say that BU, Syracuse, and UPitt would be matches/low reaches, and I think you definitely have a shot there. Wisconsin-Madison is kinda pushing it too. I really don’t know too many of the other colleges, but they are all somewhat competitive.</p>

<p>You might also want to look at Fordham or the New School in NYC. Both are pretty well-known but they aren’t as competitive as most of the others on your list. With Premed, you can basically go anywhere. BU has a really good physiology program though.</p>

<p>Good luck! Eliminate the schools that you couldn’t see yourself going to, regardless of their name.</p>

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<p>Maryland (CP) is also a major reach due to your GPA. State schools tend to rely more on formulas in admissions, so your application isn’t likely to get the kind of careful review you might at a non-state school. Check out the Common Data Set for each of these schools to see where you stand on GPA, class rank and SATs compared to the admitted classes. (You can google this.)</p>