Help is appreciated. Thanks :)

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
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<p>Stats
Female
I am British. But I recently got US citizenship. (My entire family,cept for parents/siblings live in UK)
Caucasian( Part of my family is African American if that makes any difference)
Entering for class of 2014
Massachusetts
I'm home-schooled( Started in 7th grade)
I'm planning on majoring in Neuroscience as well</p>

<p>Grades/Test Scores
GPA: 3.85/4.0
SAT: 1890( taking again)
ACT: 28(32Eng,26math,32reading,28science,29writing)
SAT II: Math-590, Lit-640,taking Bio(Im expecting to get around a 650)
AP's: Will have taken 7 by graduation
Lit,English,Psych,Macroecon,Microecon,Stats,bio
I also tested into the Honors Program at Quinsigamond Community College, where I took a sociology honors course, and maintained a 4.0GPA</p>

<p>EC
Worked as a dance teacher for 3 yrs.
Volunteered at summer dance camp(8-3/3days a week/4wks a summer)<-done this every summer of highschool.
Assisted dance classes for two years
On the dance competition team for 3 years.( I've won high gold medals)
Volunteer at Vacation Bible School
Lighthouse Missions(Soup Kitchen)
Part of church youth group
Been to Honduras/El Salvador on missions trips multiple times
Volunteered for women's MOP's group(once a month..done this for a few years)
Babysat for the women's bible study for two years(once a week)
Debate-2 years
Dance-9+years( Tap,ballet,pointe,jazz,hiphop,lyrical,modern,acro)
Starting a highschool mentorship program(older senior girls mentor the incoming freshman girls)
Snowboarding
Piano for 7 years</p>

<p>Schools
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor ( Definitely one of my top choices)
UNC- Chapel Hill ( I know it might be a reach, but anything I can work on?)
Michigan State University
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
Tulane
Duke
College of Wooster
University of California-Los Angeles
Washington State University</p>

<p>So, those are my stats. Chances are great, and also, if you have any tips for me, that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!</p>

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<p>Your profile seems decent, but I am not sure how being home-schooled will play out.</p>

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<p>Though I don’t know your subscores of SAT, but from SAT subject tests and ACT, it seems that your SAT lagged behind a little bit because of your math. If UMichigan, which is a public university, is your top choice, then you should try to do better in the next SAT. you know, the public universities have too many applications to read each individual’s carefully, so they will mainly look at your academic record(standard tests ,GPA,curriculums, ranks). The private schools will look at your whole application, that’s when your ECs work, provided that your scores won’t eliminate you before ECs can help.
ahh…I’m always wordy but you can see JUST SCORE HIGH NEXT TIME!good luck!^_^</p>

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<p>you definitely need to get your test scores up for all of those schools including Illinois. I would say you need at least a 30 for Illinois to feel comfortable, for Michigan you need more like a 32 or above.</p>