HELP!! Looking for Colleges~! :(

Applying to College
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<p>Hi guys~! so... I'm kind of new to college confidential. Well anyways, I'm a junior (11th grade) at a fairly good public high school. (Our cst scores r supposed to be pretty high or something <-- I don't know if that means anything though.) </p>

<p>ANYWAYS, senior year is coming up and I'm all stressed about colleges. I don't know which colleges to even look at. So I was wondering if anyone can suggest colleges that are suitable for me. </p>

<p>Here's a little background information about me: </p>

<p>I live in California, born and raised! I'm full Korean male. My parents have never gone to college, so I'm a first year college bound. My family income is extremely low.. :/ BUT my parents raised me right! I think.
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I wrote that because I heard that some of those things, like income and ethnicity matter to some/most colleges. </p>

<p>OK. Here is pretty much everything that I did in High School:</p>

<p>3.7 overall GPA. (3.8 if you only count 10-12)
4.2 weighted GPA
This semester and last semester, my weighted GPA is 4.66666667
(I calculated my weighted. It's around 4.5 by next year.)
<em>Honor Roll for every year since freshmen year</em></p>

<p>Sat I - 1920 (1st try) 1950 (2nd try)
Sat II: Biology E/M - 670
Korean - 750 </p>

<p>Extracurricular:</p>

<p>Wrestling team for 2 years so far (Freshman and Sophomore)
-Frosh/Soph
-Junior Varsity
Korean Club for 4 years
CSF for 1 year
Pacific American Volunteer Association for 2 years
-10+ hours
Leo (a volunteer club) for 2 years
-I'm now treasurer of the club
-100+ hours
Academic Letter of Achievement Award + Honor Roll certificates
Audubon Award for volunteer work</p>

<p>*I plan on getting another award by 1st semester of senior year and getting a job/internship. </p>

<p>OK. This is pretty much it.
So please, if you have any colleges that you know I can apply to and get into, please reply!</p>

<p>I'm looking for schools that I can without a doubt get into, schools that I can apply to and probably get into, and schools that I can apply to and 50% get into.</p>

<p>Schools that I'm thinking about are all the UC's (preferably Irvine, LA, Berkeley, San Diego), Boston University, Boston College, NYU. </p>

<p>As you can tell, my list of schools is really short. So PLEASE. Someone help me out!</p>

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<p>Your income’s pretty low; fortunately, many of the top colleges give plenty of need-based financial aid. That shouldn’t discourage you from applying to private universities such as Boston U. However, with your stats it looks like the top private universities (Harvard, Yale, etc.) will be quite a reach.</p>

<p>It looks like you have seven schools on your list now. That is a good number; people apply to 10-15 schools and it takes quite a bit of time. Fortunately, all the UC’s go under the same application, so that’ll save you some time.</p>

<p>You don’t need a finalized list right now (I didn’t really have one until October…even then I only applied to five schools). Visit some colleges, see which schools have the best programs that you’re interested, revise your list if needed.</p>