Gimme gimme gimme some good schools!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Okay, instead of posting my stats and asking what my chances are, tell me which schools you think would be a good match for me. Please. If you will.</p>

<p>I already have my list of schools ready, but I'm just doing this b/c I'm curious.</p>

<p>Class Rank: 2/~300
GPA: 4.20 W (I don't know UW GPA, probably around a 3.9-ish?)
SAT: 780 V, 720 W, 660 M (retaking)
SATII: 770 US History, 720 Chem, 630 MathII (retaking)</p>

<p>Course load is the most difficult that my school offers. For all four years (meaning all honors and AP work)</p>

<p>EC's (probably the weakest part)</p>

<p>Environmental/Science club (president, 9-12)
Girls' Varsity Tennis (9-12)
Math Team (9-12)
National Honor Society (10-12)
Hospital volunteer (9-10, ~200 hours)</p>

<p>Work (16 hours a week, hospital food service)</p>

<p>I'm also love drawing/painting, and I'm planning on submitting a portfolio.</p>

<p>I'm thinking of majoring in bio or chem. Perhaps on a pre-med track.</p>

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<p>If you had more honors/awards and some debate-type stuff, you could get into all the Ivies. As it is, you still have a good shot at lower Ivies and even other top national universities and LACs.</p>

<p>For bio and chem majors, I say apply to some of the easier Ivies, and maybe one of the tough ones--so Penn and Brown (easier ones), and maybe Princeton (tough one). For LACs, Swarthmore has a great bio program--that would be my first choice among the LACs. Also you could play sports there.</p>

<p>Other schools to consider for the sciences John Hopkins (naturally--although it's in a tough part of Baltimore), Ohio State, Boston University, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, Clemson, and Duke.</p>

<p>I guess I would also consider UCSB (great chemistry school) and maybe someplace like Michigan or Northwestern (also great medical schools).</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>

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<p>You might want to consider looking into one of the five US Service Academies</p>

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<p>Holy Cross-Top 30 LAC 1 hour from Boston- has very good pre-med program.</p>

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<p>With a 1440 cr+m and 2160 total SAT, all the Ivies (except Cornell), and schools like Stanford, Duke, Williams, and Amherst are reaches. And, if you can't push your M score above 700 and your total above 2250, they'll continue to be reaches. Your best bet is to look at good, but somewhat less selective schools. Here's some you might want to consider:</p>

<p>Northwestern
Wesleyan
Johns Hopkins
Cornell
Carleton
Vassar
Carnegie Mellon
Tufts
Washington and Lee
Emory
Vanderbilt
Notre Dame
Georgetown
Bowdoin
Haverford
Macalester
Davidson
Colby
Colgate
Brandeis
University of Michigan
William and Mary</p>

<p>I'm not sure which are strong in bio, chem, or pre-med, but based on your stats, you'd fit at any one of them.</p>

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<p>Acrylicz:</p>

<p>Assuming you are a California resident,
UCB/UCLA: Match</p>

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<p>EC's aren't weak. They aren't big but you are committed for all 4 years for almost all of them. Colleges like that.</p>

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<p>what about the EC's? That's what i'm most worried about.</p>

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<p>UCB/UCLA - slight reach to reach</p>

<p>Work on those SATs. A little late to worry about ECs.</p>

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<p>Calcruzer, where do you come up with theses assessments. CR plus math is below average for most ivies. SATIIs not there either.A 660 math as an ivy science major? Weak ECs and we don't know essys and recs. All the ivies???!!!</p>

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<p>Why does everyone assume I'm from California?</p>

<p>East Coast, people, East Coast.</p>

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<p>good shot = reach for "lower ivies"</p>

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<p>Huh? (to above)</p>

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<p>Acrylicz:</p>

<p>UCB/UCLA: Slight Reach (out of state)</p>

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<p>lol, thanks Flopsy.</p>

<p>But seriously. I'm totally worried about my EC's. Are they really that weak (especially for some of the schools that Amptron named off on his list)?</p>

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<p>Bump??????</p>