Give me safety ideas and target schools please!

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Hi everyone! I’m formulating my college list (the fun part of the college application process haha) and I’m having trouble finding safety schools and target schools that I really, really love. I do, however, already know my reaches and where I intend to apply early. I was wondering if you could give my stats a quick glance and maybe suggest a few schools in reply? Thanks!!!

Demographics
Asian female at a top college prep school (HIGH matriculation to Ivys-- last year it was ~40-50% of the class because we have fantastic college counselors). Located in a large, urban city on the East coast.
I do have legacy at several top universities but I’m going to disregard that for the purposes of this thread!

Intended Major(s)
Environmental Engineering or English (LOL I KNOW THEY’RE POLAR OPPOSITES)

GPA, Rank, and Test Scores
Unweighted GPA 4.0
(my school doesn’t calculate weighted GPA, but I’ve never gotten below an A (94) in a class and I’ve taken 3 APs even though my school doesn’t teach AP courses)
Class Rank isn’t announced either, but I’d assume top 5%
36 ACT
5s on all AP tests

Extracurriculars
In-school poetry class (application only, extremely selective-- only ~5-8 students from the grade)
Poetry recognized by The Adroit Journal, Scholastic Art and Writing, NPR, etc
Screenwriter!! In talks with several producers for the rights to my first feature film script.
Cofounder and head of screenwriting club
Actor and model for ~15 years (practically my entire life) at a top agency, earning an average of 20k per year
Research internship with an embryologist affiliated with a major university (wet lab duties, etc, full time break position)
Varsity field hockey team for 4 years, elected captain in senior year
Science club head and member for 4 years
Founder and CEO of a STEM based business focusing on sustainability and climate change (profits upwards of $1 million)
School chorus member for 4 years
Member of audition only acapella group (award winning group, several albums released) for 4 years, also write original music and arrange pieces for the group
Songwriter-- over 100k streams on various music platforms
Two summers at JHU CTY intensive studies, scored top in my class on the final exams
Mentorship program at a major hospital / medical school (accepted as a freshman despite the program being for rising seniors)
College courses during the school year (september-may) at a nearby Ivy

note: I just realized this is literally me rambling. sorry!!!

Essays/LORs/Other
Essays will likely be strong. I consider myself a decent writer (lol) but several of my creative essays have won awards, so I think I have a fair shot at writing a killer common app essay as well as good supplements.
LOR will probably be fairly strong; I have great relationships with the teachers I’m thinking about asking. One is like a mentor to me and has told me that they want their daughter to be like me, and the other is a teacher who I absolutely adore and have known for FOREVER.

Thank you!!!

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OH also I qualified for the AIME and scored highest in my school on the AMC 10 as a freshman

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What are you looking for in a college? Preferred location? Size? Greek life? Sports? Budget?

And IMO, your GC is probably the best person to ask :slight_smile:

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The first thing that comes to mind is McGill. Admissions is very stats oriented, and a 4.0 will help you a LOT for admissions to McGill. Also, they are very good at both EE and English (possibly their most famous graduate as an English major was Leonard Cohen, or Justin Trudeau if you count literature).

For environmental sciences I think of UVM, but it then occurred to me that environmental engineering is not the same thing.

I am not completely sure what environmental engineering is. I take it as being different from marine engineering but I am not sure how it compares to civil engineering versus some sort of study of energy systems. From what I see on wikipedia it looks to me as if you might eventually specialize in some specific form of environmental engineering – although this would be many years in the future and possibly only after getting a bachelor’s degree.

What state are you from? For many potential answers to this question an in-state public university would be an obvious choice.

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English can be an easy major with few classes IF you have AP English credits, which could allow a double major with environmental engineering. A safety is your state flagship. Or see Purdue, Colorado School of Mines, NC State

Target/low reach perhaps look at Univ. Miami, Lehigh.

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Show interest at Kenyon for English.

Any Flagship’s honors college could work - your state flagship’s as well as Penn State Schreyer, USC-Columbia Honors, UMichigan LSA, UGA Honors…

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