could someone please suggest colleges that are match/reach for me?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>School type: public
location:maryland
race/gender: indian( the one from india.lol), female
prospective major: english or biology
current unweighted gpa: 4.0 ( hoping to keep it hat way through the rest og high school)
class rank: 1/430( at the end of 10th grade)</p>

<p>SAT- will probably take them in december and score in upper 2000's.
SAT II's took bio-700. will retake. and will also take english, math II, chem..and possibly ush. score about 750 + on all </p>

<p>Courses
9th grade
Gt english ( highest possible except for ap)
Gt math
AP biology- 5 on Ap exam
Gt american gov
french III
orchestra </p>

<p>10th grade:
Gt english
AP chemistry- 4 on exam
Ap statistic's 4
GT precalc
french IV
Gt world history</p>

<p>i thankfully still have a 4.0 unweighted. so straight a's</p>

<p>11th grade will take
AP english
Ap economics
AP french
AP U.S
AP Calc
hoping to ge 5's ( i know this is a lot of assming, but i'm going to work hard, bcause i'm pretty sure i'm capable of getting 5's)</p>

<p>12th grade </p>

<p>AP calc b/c
Ap Lit
Ap Psyc
AP french VI
AP euro
gym( cause i took ap bio 9th grade)
or i might not take two of the above and just take ap physics </p>

<p>Extracirricular -</p>

<p>-currently doing a summer internship at NIH in the lab of cardiovascular science and i've decided to donate all the money i earn to a charity organization. i might do the same intership next summer also, continuing on the same project
- so far i've had 2 years of varsity tennis in high school. have gone to county's , regionals, and states both years.and i'll be playing varsity tennis the next two years also.
- done a variety of frivolous clubs- key club, environmental club, french club, nhs, literary magazing ...in both 9th and 10th grade-etc
- 7th and 8th grades science fair. 7th grade- county fair- honorable mention. 8th grade- 1st place.
volunteering at joh's hopkins hospital weekly
-played violin since 3rd grade
- do indian dance rigoriously. will get my dance degree before graduation. typically takes about 8 years. I've been doing dance since 6th grade
- black belt in taekwando- 5th grade
- I think there's a few things i'm forgetting here</p>

<p>Awards-
-discovery channel young scientist finalist 2006- for excellent communitcation skills
- honorable mention/ 1st place scence fair
- first place in high school poetry competition baltimore county
- most probably/ hopefully will be an ap scholor
- awards for mainaing a 4.0 gpa during varsity sports seasons
- hopefully/probably will be an ap scholar
- might make nmsqt
- future business leaders of americal- 1st place at school and regionals, 2nd at states- topic was introduction to business communications
-24 game. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places
- and a few i don't remember </p>

<p>I'm quite sure i should be able to get good recs. some from my mentors at nih, who are well qualified. i think i have a good relationship withmy teachers also. I'll hopefully have good essays . I actually thought about essays and i don't want them to be fake or anything. I plan to be honest. I've though about maybe writing about issues/problems i've had with my parents living in a strict indian family. i dunno.</p>

<p>i know someone's gonna tell me that this is so much ASSUMING, but i just want to have a general idea for my situation, assuming that i'm capable of doing all these things.
and anyone have any suggestions for me?</p>

<p>and will my 2 4's harm my chances of admission? </p>

<p>thanks:)</p>

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<p>bumpppp:) thanks</p>

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<p>High Reaches
-Harvard
-Yale
-Princeton
-Amherst
-Stanford
Reaches
-Cornell
-Columbia
-UPenn
-Brown
-Dartmouth
-University of Chicago
Low Reach
-Georgetown
-Tufts
-Northwestern
Match
-Brandeis
-Emory
-Vanderbilt
-Rice
-Syracuse
-USC
Safety
-Boston University
-University Of Maryland College Park
-University Of Delaware</p>

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<p>damn your a strong applicant...</p>

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<p>Definately in at Rice, Make sure you also take the ACT. Score at least a 2200+ on the SAT or a 33+ on the ACT</p>

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<p>ok. thanks. how will taking the act help?..let's say i score in the upper 2300's for sat, should i still take act? and also, i was looking at stanford seriously. does anyone have suggestions for it specifically?</p>

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<p>and. raiderfan4eva...did you give me my reach/ match list assuming i was capable of maintaining all i said? and is there anything that will increase my chances for the reaches you suggested? thanks.</p>

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<p>if you score upper 2300's on the SAT dont take the ACT ... BUT you will have to take 2 additional SAT Subject Tests if you wanna apply at Rice</p>

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<p>i'm definitely taking at least 2 more sat ii's if not more. thanks:) ...do you think that i'm probably borderline ona few colleges and my essays and recs will mean a lot?</p>

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<p>Well Snowy, I have had 6 friends turned away from Stanford for lack of Extra-Curricular activity, but more so their community service... i mean if you maintain your stats in terms of grades and sure SAT scores are great too, but Stanford's getting thousands of other applicants just like you... make sure you sound diverse and wanted (by the school) in your Essays, thats important, but i would soup up your community service hours... lol and being Indian doesn't help... were not exactly underrepresented... yea, but seriously i feel diversity is key!</p>

<p>i had a friend who was an avid tagger, but he would only write Graffiti on Los Angeles Unified School Districts Headquarters, because the schools was very innercity... the district wasn't to fond of our school and its being very "hood" if you will (which factored into them not giving us money and what not) so he would write messages on the walls... he wrote his essay about that and also sent in a copy of his graffiti and he was accepted... lol i cant lie and say his working at an aids clinic for 300 hours of his h.s career didn't play a big part in his acceptance as well...</p>

<p>yea, so... this really wasn't cohesive, but really really really try to do more things for your community... Stanford loves that!</p>

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<p>id say borderline at
-Cornell
-Columbia
-UPenn
-Brown
-Dartmouth</p>

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<p>thanks raider. that really helps. what i've been thinking of doing is volunteering weekly in a cardiac center because i worked on cardiology for my nih internship. i dunno. it's just so much to do. lol. yeah. being indian is the not best thing for college apps. haha.</p>

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<p>thanks for telling me the borderline ones iambored.</p>

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<p>bumppppppppppppppppp</p>

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<p>anyone?...</p>