<p>Heyy, I was wondering if you guys could help me with some suggestions for safties, good matches, and reaches for me. I posted this earlier, but I got only 1 response(which i took into account when reposting this.) I hope its okay to repost it =] I'm planning to major in Computer Science and maybe Public Relations or Buisiness</p>
<p>I'm not too sure where i'd fit in but here are my guesses for a few so far, please correct me if I'm wrong. Could someone help me populate this list? what other colleges should I consider for Comp Sci major and Buisiness/Public Relations minor/double-major</p>
<h2>Reach</h2>
<p>Stanford
Cornell
Caltech</p>
<h2>Good Match</h2>
<p>Carnegie-Mellon
New York University</p>
<h2>Saftey</h2>
<p>Rutgers
Stevens Institute of Technology
NJIT</p>
<p>===Begin Stats=========================================
Gender: Male
School: Public Magnet
State: New Jersey
Freshman GPA: 3.492
Sophomore GPA: 3.793
Junior GPA: 3.761
Cumulative GPA: 3.669</p>
<p>Class Rank: The school says they don't rank.</p>
<p>Honors: All Non AP/IB courses are honors(for everyone.)
----APs-------------
I've taken no APs so far, and Will Probably not take one this year, because I do not qualify for the following AP classes available to juniors:
AP Chemistry(B+ in chem)
AP Calculus AB, BC(i'm in a lower level math class, will be taking it next year)
AP Microeconomics(need completion of the math class I am in now, to qualify)</p>
<p>However, I did do Independent Study...
AP Micro got a 5
AP Stats got a 4</p>
<p>I am currently taking IB English,
I did not try for IB Spanish(un-interested)
I did not try for IB History(would require an extra class next year for history, and I need that time to take AP classes)</p>
<p>My school only offers a few AP classes:
AP Chemistry
AP Physics [Senior only, I'm taking it this year]
AP Biology [Senior only]
AP Calculus AB, BC [I'm taking AB this year]
AP Computer Science [Senior only, I'm taking it this year]
AP Music Theory
AP Microeconomics[Self-Studied]
AP Statistics [Senior only,Self-Studied]</p>
<p>----SATs-------------
April 2006:
Critical Reading 680[Considerable lower than in October, I might get it hand-checked]
Math 740
Writing 670</p>
<p>October 2005:
Critical Reading 760
Math 710
Writing 610</p>
<p>June 2006:
Physics 660
Math IIc 710</p>
<p>----ECs-------------
1)200+ Community Service at Summer Recreation
2)Web Club: (Helped to redisign our school's website, and the county's special services district website <a href="http://www.bergen.org%5B/url%5D">www.bergen.org</a>)
3)Model UN: member for 3 years, starting from Sophomore year, competing at 3 Conferences per year, we also hold our own school conference in which I delegated during my sophomore year, staffed during junior year and will be on the secretariat during Senior Year.
4)Choir for three years, I know its not much, but i'm unsure whether I should try for county/regional/allstate, for now lets say no.
5)Fresh Angles, a school-run magazine, where I worked as the technical staff in charge of their website <a href="http://www.freshangles.com%5B/url%5D">www.freshangles.com</a>
6)Manager of School Fundraising. Since there are countless organizations and clubs etc in our school who all want money from the students pockets and always want bakesales and whatnot, I am in charge of organizing the fundraisers and making sure only one organization has a sale at a time and that all of it runs smoothly.</p>
<p>----Other-------------
Several Online Courses that serve as preperation for A+/Network+/CCNA certification tests. Had a list but figured its just wasting space so i'm not including it here.
===End Stats=========================================</p>
<p>Also, I have a question about my SATs..</p>
<p>the second time I took SAT 1, my reading score fell 80 points, i think that was most likely because I skipped a question but messed up on the answersheet cuz I got 9 wrong in one section, which was highly unusual.</p>
<p>would it even matter if the second taking scored that much lower if the first one was that high? couldn't colleges realize there was some flaw in the taking?</p>
<p>I'm getting it hand-scored just incase... results should be mailed to me this week.</p>
<p>Now I'm in a dilemma.... its definately very late to have such a short college list like this no? I must already consider what I should apply early to... Of these colleges I'm currently considering applying early to:</p>
<p>1)ED: Carnegie Mellon
EA: Caltech</p>
<p>2)SCEA: Stanford</p>
<p>3)ED: Cornell
EA: Caltech</p>
<p>whatever I don't ED/EA in that list I would probably(maybe not my reaches) apply RD.</p>
<p>Which option should I take? If Carnegie Mellon is a match, could I wait to apply RD for Carnegie Mellon and skip option 2? allowing me to SCEA at stanford? or is stanford so far a reach that I'm better off trying to ED and EA at two other reaches, not that I'd have a significantly greater chance their, but at Cornell/Caltech there is a significant difference in % of acceptances for ED/EA whereas stanford there isnt</p>
<p>from a table in the New York Times</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon EA vs RD: 53%/41% [difference of 12%]
Cornell ED vs RD: 44%/27% [difference of 17%]
Caltech ED vs RD: 36%/17% [difference of 19%]
Stanford SCEA vs RD: 20%/11% [difference of 9%]</p>
<p>Wow, that was a lot to ask, sorry =[
.. but thanks to those who reply!!</p>