Help a Black engineer find a fit !

<p>Help a Black engineer find a fit !</p>

<p>Oh hey, sorry for the title, just trying to get some views. So I am not really looking for a chance, one would be great, but I am trying more to find input to where I would fit best. Any help appreciated.</p>

<p>Academic-
• UW GPA = 3.92 / W GPA = 4.36/ Top 10
• SAT = 2010 (660cr, 700math, 650wr) / SAT II = Math2(730)
• HS is Gold Medal On US News, 2 Junior year AP’s, 4 AP classes Senior year
• Major: Biomedical/Chemical Engineering or Human Bio, but with interests also in classics and anthro, maybe premed</p>

<p>Unique Traits-
• URM- Black/Latvian
• Low-income
• First Generation to go to College
• Red-Green Colorblind
• Minority interested in S.T.E.M.</p>

<p>School Activities/Sports-
• Varsity Track & Field(Captain),Varsity XC(captain),JV Basketball(captain), Varsity Swimming(lol so few urm's on the team)
• Minority/World Culture Club
• National Honor Society/Mu Alpha Theta/ Science Honor Society lol
• Student Athletic Trainer/Hospital Volunteer</p>

<p>Award/Scholarships/Special Programs-
• Questbridge Finalist
• Nordstrom Scholarship Finalist
• Stanford Phoenix Scholar Mentorship
• Venture Scholar
• Student Athlete Award</p>

<p>High Achieving//Elite College Visit Programs/Winky faces in admissions-
• MIT Weekend Immersion in Science and Engineering
• Cornell Fall Diversity Visit
• Dartmouth Bound
• Explore Bowdoin
• Pomona College</p>

<p>Personality/Interests-
• EXTROVERT, love chatting with random people, want a social environment
• Social Scene- ME ENCANTA PARTYING, not really into hard drugs tho
• People- they don’t all have to be social climbers, but a little less awkward then MIT ya know
• Academic Environment- Rigorous, but not sleep depriving, good balance, don’t want a very stressed student body, research opportunities
• I love S.T.E.M. but I also want a liberal arts education as well, not really feeling the tech schools
• Accepting/NON-Pretentious student body, I know that it’s not your fault polo and Abercrombie have a store at your house, but I don’t want it shoved in my face, ya know
• Sport friendly- I am not expecting SEC style fans, I don’t want to go back to the south, but I would like to have a couple peers cheering with me in the stands and to play club sports with
• EAST COAST, I’ve lived in SoCal for 12 years and the Dirty south for 6, I want a change</p>

<p>So I know that was A LOT, and I know I can’t have it all, but could you look at the list tell me the do’s and don’t, any opinion wanted !</p>

<p>Colleges-
• Yale
• Stanford
• Harvard
• Princeton
• Cornell “Conditional Acceptance”
• Penn
• Brown
• Dartmouth “Conditional Acceptance”
• MIT “winky face ;)”
• I’ve already applied to the UC’s, matches and safeties, so none of those plz</p>