Could Haverford be a reasonable reach for me?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Haverford College
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<p>Please help me complete my list. Posted below is my partial list and stats:
So what would b some good schools to add to my list: I want 2 or 3 reaches, 3 to 5 matches, and 2 safeties</p>

<li>University of Michigan (insert either match, reach or safety here) </li>
<li>University of Washington (insert either match, reach or safety here) </li>
<li>UC System through common app (insert either match, reach or safety here) </li>
<li>University of Oregon (insert either match, reach or safety here)
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<p>I posted here because I’ve posted on others, and no 1 helped me out. I also want to know for my reaches, which 2 should I apply to out of: WUSTL, Northwestern, Penn, Cornell, and any of the top 10 LACs</p>

<p>demographics
*I am an Asian Indian Male
*From a competitive public high school in Oregon, Beaverton High School, which was also rated the best AP school in Oregon, so yeah, its a smart school.
*student body at school = 500+</p>

<p>what I look for ranked in order of preference:

  1. Want to study medicine so would like a strong biology or anat/phys program
  2. Perfer a medium-small institution
  3. I hate going to a school that no1 knows about, or is considered to be “average”
  4. I dont care very much about the location. I’d perfer, however, to be close to a large city, but not neccessarily IN the city. A nice campus works 2 tho </p>

<p>The Numbers/ECs
*Freshman year:
4.0 with honors in 2 classes for both semesters</p>

<p>*Sophomore Year:
3.8125 overall for both semesters
Bs in AP Chem 1st sem, Precalc 2nd sem, Social Studies 1st sem</p>

<p>*Junior Year (projected)
Human Anat/Phys-A,A
IB Bio HL 1-A,A
Spanish 3-A,A
IB Calculus-A, A (might be at worst 1 “B”)
IB Psychology-A,A
Team Sports-A
IB English-B,B (might get "A"s)
IB Tok 1-B</p>

<p>*class rank UW right now = 38/515. Weighted = 30/515 (will go up because not many kids have taken hard classes yet)
*IB Diploma Candidate (to be)
*Will take AP exams in addition to IB exams, so I could be AP Scholar w/ distinction or just AP scholar as well.
*Varsity tennis 4 years (will have 4)
*Science Team 4 years (will have 4)
*World Quest Trivia 4 years (will have 4)
*Science Club Treasurer (1 year)
*Science Club VP (2 years)
*Math Club VP (2 years)
*Portland Youth Philharmonic (3 years)
*Mathfest Algebra 2 1st place freshman year
*OIMT Participant Fresh Year
*Mathfest Participant sophomore year
*Oregon Museum of Science and Industry Rising Star Program (will have 175-200 hours done)
*Mathcounts Tutor (about 50+ volunteer hours)
*will try to get 2000-2100 on SAT, 30+ on ACT</p>

<p>btw I’ve posted these stats many, many times</p>

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<p>probably...</p>

<p>It seems to me you're applying to mostly large universities and then to... Haverford? Universities and LACs can provide for tremendous but disparate college experiences. As you're pre-pre-med, you're like a 4th year medical student saying you're interested in both a procedure based and non-procedure based specialty and doing a "shot-gun" approach and applyng to both.</p>

<p>You need to 1st think about what type of environment you want. In your case, I don't think your academics will particularly help (and maybe not even hurt) your application, but not knowing why you want to go to HC will.</p>