Colleges I Should Consider?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Hi guys, I was wondering what colleges I should put on my list/would find a good fit with based on my stats. I'm interested in pursuing pre-med and want a medium-sized school preferably in an urban or semi-urban environment.</p>

<p>Objective:
• SAT I (breakdown): 2340 (760CR, 800M, 780W, first time single sitting)
• SAT II: Not taken yet, predicting 750+ on math 2/us history/bio m
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.28 on 4.33 scale, probably 4.0 on 4.0 scale
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/115ish
• AP (place score in parenthesis): Bio, USH, Calc AB, Environmental (self-study), Psychology (self-study)
• IB (place score in parenthesis):
• Senior Year Course Load: Exhausted most of my school curriculum so only AP Gov and AP English. Maybe taking online APs, self-studying Chem, Calc BC and Stats. A few honors courses. Generally the hardest possible courseload I could take
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): NMSF qualifying score (first in school in over 5 years, maybe closer to 10), likely AP Scholar with Distinction, school awards
Subjective:
• Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): JV Soccer (varsity senior year), Varsity Indoor Track (#3 in D4 in state of MA in event (#1 junior), #20 in All-States in event (#7 junior), other state meet medals, Most Improved Award, likely captain senior year), Varsity Outdoor Track (similar achievements to Indoor), DECA (#1 in district in event, #1 in state of MA in event, competing at nationals, Head Voting Delegate for chapter at states, officer senior year), NHS (President), GSA (Founding member and VP since sophomore year), Student Council (elected class representative, elected to regional student council for senior year), Academic Decathlon/Quiz Show (Captain/President), Along with another student I'm working with a teacher and the principal to revise the mission statement/core values of the school to ensure accreditation, Key Club, Xylophone lessons, two clubs I did only freshman year
• Job/Work Experience: Paid weekly tutoring, pet-sitting, yard work
• Volunteer/Community service: Decent amount: volunteer at elementary school in between sports seasons, volunteer at cat shelter every Saturday, volunteer tutor 2-3 times a week, some Key Club hours
• Summer Activities: Summer soccer, track camp, Summer @ Brown sophomore summer, weeklong lab program at BU, possible internship/volunteering at hospital this summer</p>

<p>General comment: Not the greatest on paper but in the context of my school I'm decently successful. Skipped a grade in math in 6th grade and doubled up to get ahead on sciences sophomore year (explains why I've exhausted my math/science curriculum), first to get NMSF in a while, maybe highest GPA in school history (have to find out for sure), only person on track team to qualify for All-States as an individual, only kid in DECA chapter to qualify for nationals/get top 3 placement at states, first person in school to self-study AP exams, first to have more than 2 APs junior year, avg SAT score at my school is around 1600, etc</p>

<p>So what do you guys think? I'm generally a passionate, open-minded person and I want a school that would be a good fit. Definitely more math/science oriented than humanities oriented. Also I'm a white (half-middle eastern) male who goes to a MA public school and I'm thinking of applying to 10-15 colleges</p>

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<p>well, there’s MIT and Harvard in your backyard… IF you are looking around US, then John Hopkins, Stanford, Emory, and Northwestern (among others) for pre-med.</p>

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<p>Do my stats really put me in that league? I’m looking all around the country if that helps, and thanks for your input :)</p>

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<p>Honestly, you have amazing stats, and you should definitely apply to schools that would be considered unattainable for others (ie the Ivies/Stanford)… Maybe since you like math/science you should look into MIT, Cal Tech, and Johns Hopkins?</p>

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<p>“Do my stats really put me in that league?”</p>

<p>Your stats seem to indicate intelligence; you probably should have figured this out yourself…</p>

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<p>Apply for em, but with your stats, I am happy to throw down that acceptance is not guaranteed. There are folks like you such as a captain of with national science olympiad team with medals and the 2300+, ridiculously high GPAs, etc. Yet, they get the rejected from basically every top college they apply to.</p>

<p>~You should consider the cheaper in state colleges too. Us lesser prestigious schools want competition too, well somewhat, you can be on top there :)</p>

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<p>Thank you guys so much! I know my stats are pretty competitive but sometimes CC makes me doubt myself. Tangentline, I’m afraid of that happening to me too and that’s why I’m trying to create a proper mix of safeties, matches and reaches. For safeties I am thinking BU and Northeastern. Matches would probably be Lehigh, Carnegie Mellon, Brandeis, and Tufts. My problem is reducing the number of reaches I want to apply to. I want to maximize my chances by applying to multiple schools but I want to make sure they’re all good fits. On my radar are Duke, Harvard, WashU, Middlebury, USC, Swarthmore, Princeton, Columbia, UVA, UNC, Emory, and UPenn. The ones I have visited and am definitely applying to are Brown, Hopkins, UChicago and Northwestern. For a science-oriented person who wants a work hard/play hard lifestyle, which ones can I eliminate without having to visit them? I’ve done a good amount of research and each of the ones I have mentioned seems to be social enough for me, but I could be wrong. Any thoughts?</p>

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<p>Your interests scream Harvey Mudd.</p>

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<p>Have you posted this in College Search and Selection? People over there have way more experience.</p>

<p>Also your stats are competitive for any school; it’s just a matter of finding fit and hoping you get lucky.</p>