do i need more safety schools? and chances while youre at it please

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey you guys, I would really appreciate your feedback on if I need safety schools or not.</p>

<p>Lists of Colleges</p>

<p>Cornell ED (reach)
Dartmouth (reach)
Princeton and Harvard (reaches)
Colgate
Vassar
Lafayette
Bucknell
Washington College in Maryland (safety)</p>

<p>(Not including Freshmen year bc i heards it not important)</p>

<p>Class Ranks 13/596</p>

<p>Sophmore Year
Honors Pre Calc (As both semesters)
Honors Chem (B first semester, A 2nd semester)
AP Euro (As both semester)
Honors English (As both semesters)
Spanish 2 (As both semester)
Art (As both semesters)
Varsity Swim</p>

<p>Junior Year
AP Physics (Bs both semesters)
AP Calc BC (As both semesters)
AP US (As both semesters)
AP Comp (As both semesters)
Spanish 3 (As both semesters)
Varsity Swim Team (As both semester)
Academic Decathalon</p>

<p>Senior Year
AP Stats
Honors Brit Lit
honors Anatomy
AP Econ
AP Spanish
I have straight As for senior year</p>

<p>APs
AP Bio (freshman)- 1
AP Euro (soph)-5
AP US-4
AP Physics-1
AP Calc-3
AP Comp-3</p>

<p>SAT I
Math:680
CR: 550
Writing: 640</p>

<p>SAT IIs
Math II: 650
US history: 680</p>

<p>Extra Curriculars</p>

<p>Scholarship Program since 7th grade and I did over 3000 hours of community service- I volunteered for over 90 non profit organizations (I will go into more detail later)</p>

<p>Volunteered for Special Olympics for 4 years
A member of the Assistance League: 2004-current and I help raise money and collect clothes, backpacks, toothbrushes, shoes, etc for children who can not afford these neccesities
Work and raised over $15,000 for a therapeutic horse back riding facility for disabled children- 2002-2006
helped raise over $8,000 for single mothers and abused women in my community
Worked for two months and helped raise of $50,000 for Tsunami victims in Asia Hurricane Katrina victims and I helped gather tons of food and clothes
Chairwoman of my school for Giving Tree Drive
Chairwoman of my school for Pennies for Patients Drive
Actively involved with American Cancer Society and Relay for Life
I work very closely with cancer victims and a non profit organization near my home ( I dont want to name it bc i am paranoid about stalkers, lol, pathetic i know)
Volunteer at the Homeless shelter near my home (over 80 hours a year)</p>

<p>School Activites
President of Environment Club
Treasurer of Cancer Awareness Club
Member of NHS (2004-current)
member of National Art Honor Society
Member of Spanish National Honor Society
Member of Spanish Club
Member of key club
Treasurer of California Scholarship Federation</p>

<p>SPORTS
Varsity Swim Team since freshmen year
2005 Athlete Scholar Award</p>

<p>OTHER AWARDS
AP Scholar
Principals honor roll from 2003-current
Academic award 2003-current</p>

<p>Great Essay (talked about my obstacles and how I grew up in a broken home)
Great Teacher Recommendations
Have an outstanding rec from a powerful politician in my area
first generation College student
raised by single mom/ never bet biological father</p>

<p>Female/ Japanese (Asian)
resides in California</p>

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<p>I'm sorry, but every school on that list is a reach for you, and some look impossible. Got a class rank? A 1230 SAT (old) is really low for all those schools not named Bucknell or Colgate, and being asian really isn't going to help. I suggest you trim some ivies off, add a lot more matches and safties.</p>

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<p>okay a 1870 with no hooks.... almost no way for cornell.....dont send ur AP scores ur 1s would look so bad...
and NO WAY FOR HYP...i mean...they expect more from us asians</p>

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<p>whats HYP?</p>

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<p>you have lots of ecs but your stats are low (1870 SAT??)maybe a few safeties from one tier lower..? i wouldn't count you in for ivies but 2nd or 3rd tier maybe..</p>

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<p>o and do you have some suggestions for matches? i couldnt really find appealing ones</p>

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<p>Edit: Saw class rank, that should help. </p>

<p>HYP is an acronym for Harvard Yale Princeton, representing the toughest colleges to get into</p>

<p>Why don't you tell us what you want in a college (geograhy, size, etc.), then we can help? I think you may want to do a little more research yourself.</p>

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<p>Boonies, do you have a college counselor or any help? I think everyone is saying that we're surprised by your list because your stats are not in range for most of your schools which you can see by looking up the common data set for each of your schools or spending $15 to access US News online.</p>

<p>Your best bet for match and safety schools is to post on the parent's board.</p>

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<p>umm ok, ill post it on the parents board
but i want to go to a school in a rural or suburban area on the east coast, preferably NY, PA, MD, or in that area (I have family there) and I live in CA
I want to go to a school that has a good pre med program too and a lot of clubs and organization to join
Im not big on frat/sorority schools either</p>

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<p>o and suze, my counselor is a dummy, i hate to say it. hes like the one in Orange county the movie.
I asked him how many SAT IIs i need for Cornell Univ. and he said, "I doubt that you need any to apply" ......hmmm....ok....lol
and everyday, he drives his BMW 740 to school and covers it with a car cover, its soo sad lol</p>

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<p>How bout Penn State, Pitt, Stony Brook, or the University of Maryland? The UCs might not be a bad idea, if you want to stay in Cali (I would).</p>

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<p>He's obviously not paying for the BMW with outside counseling!</p>

<p>You can get into pleanty of good schools. ucs are a good idea in that your sats are fine there, but your list seems to suggest you want small. Mayb4e a UC and then transfer?</p>

<p>For small, focus on the SAT optional schools: Middlbury and Bowdoin are good choices. Also maybe look at Occidental, Whitman, Reed, Trinity (CT).</p>

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<p>How about Hamilton College? SATs are optional there. Do i have a good chance?</p>

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<p>As long as your frewhman year was good and the ranking includes that year, I think you're a strong candidate at Hamilton and all the SAT optional schools.</p>

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<p>Might want to add Holy Cross-top30 LAC very similar to Colgate and Bucknell. Holy Cross has better location-1 hour from Boston while other 2 schools are more remote.</p>

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<p>Are there any other SAT optional schools?</p>

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<p>There are a TON listed here. Although there might be too many to sift through, it's worth a look: <a href="http://www.fairtest.org/optinit.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.fairtest.org/optinit.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>You're in.</p>

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<p>I don't think Hamilton is score optional in the same way that Bowdoin is - for Hamilton you have to submit either SAT I, or some combo of SAT II's/AP's - check out their website.</p>

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<p>Holy Cross is SAT optional and believe Bates is also.</p>