<p>I am a junior.
Please help me to choose some reach and match schools (major: Chemistry, hoping some economics will be double majored) for this fall (EA or ED), and Which one is best if I apply EA Single Choice?</p>
<p>My profile is:
- IB diploma: about 42~43 (predicted) with TOK/EE
* All consecutive 7's in Chem, Math, Bio so far
- GPA 4.0/4.0(unweighted)
- Rank: 1ish/less than 100
- PSAT 231
- SAT 1 (2nd seatting) 2350: 800 for CR/800for Math/750 for Writing
(highest combine) 2360 with 760 for Writing
- SAT 2: Math 2C 800
* Chem, Bio, French will be taken until June (hope all 800's )
- French: DALF C2
- Female
- ECs: Community Service Club Leader etc..<br>
- need some FA (even partly..)</p>
<p>You have great scores, so you have as good of a chance as anyone at top schools. In case you didn’t know, Harvard and Princeton are reinstating their SCEA policy this year. If you don’t want to be locked out of other EA options, you can apply to a few normal EA Schools. Maybe try MIT/Caltech? UChicago also has one of the best econ programs in the nation and has early action. With your excellent stats, I think you would have a chance at big merit scholarships at places like Vanderbilt, Emory, Michigan, maybe Duke.</p>
<p>There are dozens of possibilities. You need to give us some more information about what you are looking for:</p>
<p>1) Geographic preferences: part of the country, suburban/urban/rural, climate/terrain (if that matters), distance you are willing to go from home (where ever that is)
2) Size of school: LAC, public university, mid-sized private
3) Culture: preppy, intellectual, rah-rah, quirky, artsy, conservative, single-sex, sororities, religious - give us some adjectives so you know where you see yourself fitting best-any schools you’ve visited and loved?
4) Special interests: sports, music program, any EC you ‘must have’ (like skiiing or mountain climbing)
5) How much can you pay? Will you need a lot of financial aid?
6) Any deal-breakers?</p>
<p>Thanks for your interests, M’s Mom.
- Geographic preferences: suburban/urban (but I don’t care much), climate/terrain (doesn’t matter) distance you are willing to go from home (doesn’t matter; I am an int’l student)
- Size of school: Large/mid sized private school(s)
- Culture: intellectual and co-ed
- Special interests: chances to be admitted if I apply one of top ivies which just join the SCEA.
- How much can you pay? Will you need a lot of financial aid? (I need FA; my family can pay some 20,000 a year including room and board)
- Any deal-breakers? I don’t know but I do not have out-of-school awards (although I have many in-school academic awards)</p>
<p>What country are you applying from? It makes a difference. There are many students applying from China and India (they have their own forum here on CC). But if you are from Africa, Latin America or the Middle East, it can significantly improve your chances.</p>
<p>By all means apply to some of the top ivies. You are competitive academically. You may not have to have ‘out of school awards,’ but hopefully you do have to have accomplishments or achievements that are noteworthy, unusual and differentiate you from the many other talented applicants. A strong essay about your intellectual passions and solid letters of recommendation could be decisive.</p>
<p>Mid-sized/large urban or sub-urban privates to consider: University of Chicago (Chicago, of course), Emory (Atlanta), Rice (on the smaller side - Houston), Washington University of St. Louis (St. Louis), Columbia (New York), Georgetown (Washington DC)…there are many more. These are all highly selective schools - almost as difficult to gain admission to as the top ivies. There are many other excellent but somewhat less selective schools where you would probably have a better chance of admission - but that might not be worth coming to the US for if you have good options in your own country.</p>
<p>You might also want to consider not ruling out all the liberal arts colleges (LACs). Several in the midwest offer very generous financial aid: Macalester (Minneapolis) and Grinnell (a rural LAC) are especially well known for this and around 12% of their student body is international. (And Grinnell has extraordinary science facilities, profs and mentoring.)</p>