Help Me Narrow Down/Add to my List!

College Search & Selection
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<p>I'm a white female high school junior in an affluent town in CT.
SAT - math 750, reading 750, writing 690 but i plan on retaking
classes - all honors, AP bio in 10th (5 on AP), AP Chem, US, and Euro in 11th, AP Spanish, Calc, Physics, English, and Gov next year
grades - decent, all A's and some B's, 3.8 weighted? at least top 10% out of 800
extracurics - field hockey all 4 years, varsity for 2, captain next year. also play club in the offseason. student gov officer in 10th, VP in 11th, pres in 12th (almost definitely). i also dance 2 nights a week and have been doing so for 12 years.</p>

<p>although i'm from CT, i have family in san diego and love CA. i plan on going to a college either in CA or in a big city on the east coast. i probably want to go into biology (genetics) or business (advertising). any suggestions to add to this list? or colleges i should take off my list, any unreasonable reaches, etc? any help is appreciated. thank you!</p>

<p>Loyola Marymount, Pitzer, Northeastern, UDel, BU, U of Maryland, Tulane, UC Irvine, Wake Forest, UCSB, George Washington, UCSD, Scripps, UC Berkeley, Lehigh, BC, Tufts, UVA, Claremont McKenna, Georgetown, JHU, UCLA, USC, Emory, Brown, Columbia, Pomona, Stanford</p>

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<p>I would take off Irvine and UCSB, you can do much better and they are not worth the OOS cost. You don’t need both Pitzer and Scripps, pick the one you like better. I’d take off Tulane too, you can do better without the weather worries.</p>

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<p>UC Santa Barbara is a good choice for you in light of your interests in science, dance & the California coast. Pitzer does not match your profile, in my opinion. Keep UCLA, UCSD (but be forewarned of very large class sizes), Stanford & Columbia, as well as UC-Berkeley, Tufts, JHU & Brown. Consider adding Northwestern University which is strong in sciences, has a dance major, allows double majoring plus a minor, and is located in a Chicago suburb. Emory may offer you a merit scholarship award. Boston College may also be an appropriate choice for you. Consider Penn’s Wharton School of Business. Delete the rest on your list unless you have a special reason for wanting to attend a particular school.</p>

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<p>I can personally tell you that Dance is huge at UCI. One person in my dorm came from Indiana, and the other from Wisconsin, simply to dance at UCI.
They’ve both told me they came here for dance programs and workshops before coming here as undergraduates.</p>

<p>Check out these links:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/dance-major/597933-uc-irvine.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/dance-major/597933-uc-irvine.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>[Dance@UCI</a> - Dance@UCI](<a href=“http://dance.arts.uci.edu/]Dance@UCI”>http://dance.arts.uci.edu/)</p>

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<p>I would take off Northeastern, UDel (the only state schools worth OOS tuition in my opinion are most of the UCs, UVA, UMaryland, William and Mary, UNC,) Tulane</p>