<p>I'm not sure what some reasonable safeties would be. Most the schools I'm looking at are high selective, and I'm worried I wont be applying to any safeties. In terms of major I'm looking at linguistics, computer science, and cognitive science. </p>
<p>Some schools I'm looking at: Michigan (instate), McGill, Carleton, Grinnel, Chicago, Havorford, Hampshire, Yale, Brown, Rochester, probably some others I'm forgetting. Carleton is probably my top choice right now.</p>
<p>Basic Stats:
white, male
GPA: 3.9 UW
psat: 208 (74, 75, 59) (no ACT or SAT yet)
class rank: unknown, but I'm pretty sure top 10% (out of 700+)
I have taken most advances courses possible, and next year I'm going to be an exchange student in Taiwan (I'll still graduate on schedule).</p>
<p>Junior Year Classes:
AP calculus BC
AP physics C: mechanics
AP latin
AP English language
AP US History
(the following are semester courses)
AP US government
Linguistics 313: Sound Patterns (course at the university of Michigan)
acting
creative writing</p>
<p>ECs:
Technical Theatre (mostly lighting (assistant crew-head on three shows), but also have set, sound, and stage managing experience. 15+ hours a week)
President and founder of school lingusitics club
creative writing club
Forensics (Freshman and half of sophomore year)
Track and cross country (Freshman and half of sophmore year)
Independent Language study (originally Japanese, but I'm doing chinese now)
Some volunteer work (can't say how much exactly probably 20 hours a year or so)</p>
<p>Awards:
10th place North American Computational Linguistic Olympiad 2008, (At least top 100 this year)
Superiority in lighting execution (for the show that came in second in a state competition)</p>