<p>SAT (retaking in fall): 2080 (cr: 630, w: 690, m: 760)
ACT (retaking in fall): 30 (32/32/30/25)
Math IIC: 800
USH: 710
Physics: taking in fall
GPA: 4.4</p>
<p>ECs:
Dance:10-15 hours a week (I will go more in depth on this for my application cause it's my main EC and we perform at a lot of community venues... but for the sake of people's time, I won't go fully in depth)
Treasurer of dance team
Treasurer of key club
Tutoring in math: 2-3 hours a week</p>
<p>Summers:
SWIM at Princeton
WTP at MIT
Cultural dance exchange in China
Ballet program (4 weeks)</p>
<p>Awards:
1st place writing contest 10th grade
Academic awards: Geometry, French, Healthy living, English 10, AP Stats, APUSH, Pre-Calc</p>
<p>Applying to (I live in CA):
Berkeley
UCLA
UCSD
UCSC
UC Davis
Pomona
Harvey Mudd
Occidental
Reed
MIT
Princeton
Brown
University of Chicago</p>
<p>Does my list look reasonable? Thanks and I really appreciate any feedback!</p>
<p>UCLA-low reach
UCSD-match
UCSC-saftey
UC Davis-saftey/match
Pomona-reach
Harvey Mudd-reach
Occidental-never heard of it
Reed-never heard of it
MIT-high reach (unless great math stuff)
Princeton-high reach
Brown-reach
University of Chicago-reach</p>
<p>Its perfect. YOu may want to cut down some of your reach schools if you wanna save money, but they are all resonable. good luck</p>
<p>Berkeley HIGH REACH
UCLA HIGH REACH
UCSD DON’T KNOW
UCSC DON’T KNOW
UC Davis DONT’ KNOW
Pomona OUT OF REACH
Harvey Mudd OUT OF REACH
Occidental REACH
Reed REACH
MIT TOTALLY OUT OF REACH
Princeton YOU’RE KIDDING, RIGHT?
Brown TOTALLY OUT OF REACH
University of Chicago HIGH REACH</p>
<p>You need a lot more match and safety schools.</p>
<p>What is your un-weighted GPA and class rank (if applicable)? I am going to assume it is around a 3.7 or 3.8 for the purpose of this post:</p>
<p>You are matches at UCD and Occidental College. UCSD is a high match, and UCB, UCLA, H. Mudd, and Reed are low reaches but still still very realistic choices. I think you will need to do better on CR if you want a better shot at Reed, so re-taking your SAT/ACT tests are a good idea. This will also help you be more competitive for the top-tier UC’s. You are a high reach for the Ivies, MIT, and UChicago but apply anyway. Get some great recs and write some awesome essays. Good luck.</p>
<p>I edited my post to include H. Mudd, but it reverted back to my previous post. This is a reach school for you as well, but one that you should apply to anyway. You have a shot, but only if you apply.</p>
<p>If you are into dance, and it appears to be the case by number of hours you are dancing, then you should “audition” for any school with a dance program, and let the school know that you will minor in dance. It would help with your admission.</p>
<p>If you could bring your SAT scores up a bit, MIT may not be as out of reach as some people are saying. Admittance rate for girls at MIT is a lot higher than for boys.</p>
<p>Dean of William and Mary, on girl-guy discrepancy:</p>
<p>2) I believe that self-selectivity within applicant pools is an often overlooked factor to consider. In the data U.S. News reported in its article, MIT exhibited the largest relative discrepancy between the admit rates (in 2006) for men (10%) and women (22%). Now, should the public believe that MIT’s admissions office holds its women to lower standards for admission than those employed for men? Of course not. Women who apply to MIT are a highly self-selected and academically capable group despite being a comparatively small group within that particular applicant pool.</p>
<p>I would also still say MIT is more likely than some of your other reaches, as math is clearly the subject at which you test best, and a math-dancer is more interesting than math-compsci or whatever. Even Chicago and Brown remain high reaches unless your SAT score (mostly CR) goes up a lot. If writing breaks 700, that’s a respectable and do-able score on that section. To my untrained eye, a CR of 680-690 would cease to be a deal-breaking score because you are otherwise a pretty strong applicant. (Higher is of course better.) Your list of California schools seems reasonable, too. Are you guaranteed admission to some of them? (UCSC has such a nice location!) Incidentally, why both Chicago and Brown? They have similar feels, but the Core vs. not-even-distribution-requirements is quite a difference. You would be okay with both?</p>
<p>Thank you so much for your replies!
To answer questions: my unweighted GPA is a 4.0 and my rank is 15/360 (I will be writing a note on my application explaining that my rank is lower because the bulk of my AP courses landed senior year)</p>
<p>About Brown vs. U Chicago- I would be okay with either. I’m applying to a wide range of schools so when decisions come in I will (hopefully) have a lot of very different types of schools to choose from. This way, no matter how I change in the next year I should have a school that fits me.</p>
<p>And I will work on cr. It is definitely my hardest section but I have already been taking many practice tests for it.</p>