<p>I'm a high school junior very interested in math and enrolled in Calculus AB. I've been studying Apostol's Calculus volume one in my own time and plan to take the Calculus BC test. This summer I want to take Calculus III at a local university and then linear algebra concurrently with the first semester of my senior year if there are no schedule conflicts.</p>
<p>In school I get As and (a lot of) Bs, in the hardest classes possible (full IB diploma candidate)</p>
<p>I recently took the SAT and did better than I ever thought I would, getting 800 in both math and reading and 770 in writing.</p>
<p>My main interests are studying math with a possible double major in math and either linguistics or international relations. But the most important to me is math.</p>
<p>Which colleges should I be applying to, that are both withing my reach and have good math programs? I want to go to the University of Chicago but I doubt they'd accept me with my middle-of-the-road grades. Any ideas?</p>
<p>Cornell University
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
New York University
Princeton University
Rice University
Stanford University
University of California-Berkeley
University of California-Los Angeles
University of Chicago
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Pennsylvania
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Yale University</p>
<p>With a 2370 SAT score, universities will consider you. Granted, your chances at Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and Yale are not very good, but applying to one or two of those schools can’t hurt.</p>
<p>You sound like a perfect candidate for University of Chicago. You are self-motivated, you interact with the material on your own, you take highly challenging courses, and you have fantastic scores. I doubt that they will reject you for having Bs in challenging courses. You will get in. You have a chance at every school on Alexandre’s list, and a really good chance at many of them.</p>
<p>If you’re going to consider LACs, the ones I would suggest from IsleBoy’s list are Swarthmore and Reed, because I believe they both have rather good math programs and because they’re the schools that are said to be the most like UChicago.</p>
<p>The University of Chicago is perfect for you. It has a top 5 Math program in the world and you seem like the type of motivated student that would fit in well.</p>
<p>also try for MIT- you probably won’t get in b/c of grades, but test scores (esp the 800 in math) will help a lot…I had the opposite, really good grades, but a 750, and got rejected</p>