<p>Please help me evaluate my list. I am looking primarily at schools in cities, and plan on majoring in African-American Studies, social sciences, or journalism. Although I'm an aspiring writer I would like to go to a school with a good liberal arts background. I feel that I don't have enough true matches. Also, I'm very interested in Penn, but reluctant to apply ED because of financial aid concerns. If you know anything about their generosity with aid money let me know. Also, please sort my list into reaches, matches, and safeties.</p>
<p>I am currently planning to apply to:
Penn (possibly ED)
Princeton (legacy)
Harvard
Yale
Duke
Stanford
Brown
Emory
USC
Howard
Morehouse
U of Miami? (The whole rich kid stigma has me worried, I definitely don't want to be living with stuck-up kids for 4 years)</p>
<h2>Any suggestions are welcome.</h2>
<p>Profile: African-American Male, Upstate NY Public High School of approx. 900 students.</p>
<p>SAT I: 2160 (690 CR, 750 MA, 720 WR, 11 essay)</p>
<p>SAT IIs: Biology-730, Math IIC-720, US History-670</p>
<p>APs: Biology-5, English Literature-4, US History-4, Will take Government, English Language, Chemistry, and Calculus BC in my senior year.</p>
<p>GPA: Unweighted-98.2/100, Weighted-100.1. All my grades have been A's or A+'s.</p>
<p>Class Rank: Top 5/~190
Courseload: Taken highest level courses at my school whenever possible.</p>
<p>ECs (I changed schools after 9th grade)-Cross-Country (9th), Basketball (9th), Jazz Ensemble (Saxophone-9th), Internship at local radio station (9th), JV Basketball (10th), JV Baseball (10th, 11th), Worked as a sportswriter for a local newspaper (summer before 11th), Harvard Model Congress (11th, 12th), Summer Academy at Cape Town (this summer), Varsity Baseball (12th), National Honor Society (12th).</p>
<p>Awards-Academic Awards-English, Science, Social Studies, Math (10th), English, Science, Social Studies, Math, Spanish (11th), Harvard Model Congress Award of Excellence, National Achievement Semi-Finalist.</p>
<p>Recommendations will be great. My essay will be as well.</p>
<p>Other stuff: I'm an aspiring Hip Hop artist-still looking for a producer and studio (myspace.com/ryanjobson), I skipped a grade so I'll be 17 when I enter college.</p>