<p>Thank you for your opinions…
@gibby: What red flag? 2140 is a very respectable score! I worked very, very hard to get that and my GPA. Maybe not by CC standards, but around here my friends’ jaws drop when they hear anyone with over 2000. In the past years, 3 people were admitted to Yale from my school. All were intel semifinalists, with scores of 2350, 2230, and 1950. Yeah, 1950, admitted to Yale. That shows it’s the passion that matters. My YouTube channel and extracurriculars I think demonstrate my passion well. My essays also highlight my perspective on research. It seems that on this website, many posters automatically disregard an applicant by seeing his standardized test scores. At every college fair I have been to, adcoms from Dartmouth, Princeton, and Duke have all advised to ignore CC. Yet, I find it to be helpful in some aspects.
@ucbalumnus: According to my parents, they would like to stay under $20k, but would stretch and take out some loans if Harvard or Yale offered a little higher.</p>
<p>Right now, I am looking at Vanderbilt, WashU, UVa, Rice, Tufts, Northeastern, Pitt, Stony Brook, and then HYS</p>