<p>...but you clicked it anyway, didn't you?</p>
<p>Hi everyone-</p>
<p>My little sister is just starting the college application process, and she's less of a go getter than I was when it came to the application process. I'm trying to help her out as much as I can, so I was wondering if you guys thought this seemed like a balanced list for her...</p>
<p>A little about her - she's a wonderful person (at least I think so!) who's VERY dedicated to community service - not just for college apps either! (She doesn't believe in recording her hours for this very purpose, but I'm sure she has well over 1000, just from freshman year on). She's very active in our school's YCS program, and has been an officer for the past two years. She's a great writer, and has been on the school magazine for the past two years (longest you can be on). Now she's the business editor, which entails a lot of work and dedication, and she always puts it in. She managed to sell 8 ads last year alone, making over $2000 for the magazine (the minimum students have to make is $600, most barely reach that). She's been a Girl Scout for the past year (to help a friends dwindling troop from disappearing into nothingness), and she's on her school's yearbook committee. In addition, since last summer, she's held down a steady 20hr/wk job at an ice cream parlor. Last summer, she was almost full time, while also taking Econ in summer school. She's very interested in Spanish (took the 4AP test last year, and received at 3 due to a poor teacher, almost no one in her class received a 4 or a 5), and spent a month in Spain two summers ago.</p>
<p>Now I know that to most of the incredible CC kids who won a Nobel prize at the age of 2 for their work in nuclear physics, but to me, it seems like she does a LOT. She has a very strong work ethic, and a lot of times when I would give up on my homework and crawl into bed, she would stay up til well past 3 finishing up those last problems. She has a strong 3.75UW GPA (her high school doesn't weight GPAs or rank), and SATs in the mid to high 600 range (she plans to retake and is confident she'll break that 700 mark; she's not much of a standardized test taker). She took the SATIIs, and received a 780 Spanish and 650 Math 2C, 660 Math 1C.</p>
<p>She's looking at some UCs (in state) and some schools on the East Coast, looking to possibly major in business and go into advertising eventually, or perhaps in psychology. She wants a bigger school, and isn't interested in anything rural. Ideally, she'd like to apply to 7 or 8 schools, and what she's looking at so far include:</p>
<p>UCLA
UCSD
UCSB
Tufts
NYU
Columbia (major reach, we know, but she really wants to go there - any advantage to applying ED? That's her plan now.)</p>
<p>The list is a bit top heavy, wondering if anyone can help me out with a few suggestions for her/evaluating her chances at these schools.</p>
<p>Forgot to add, nearly all her classes are honors/accelerated, and her schedule for senior year looks like:</p>
<p>Yearbook
Magazine Journalism
AP Environmental Science
AP Calculus AB
AP Psychology
World Classics 12H
Creative Writing
Work Experience</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>