<p>have your counselor explain your class rank in her rec. </p>
<p>adcoms say all the time that they don't just take well-rounded students and that they like lopsided students as well. community service isn't a requirement for admission, and you have leadership in science clubs. you'll definitely get a bunch of acceptances from the schools on your list. </p>
<p>btw, do you like duke? it's better than emory and tufts engineering, on par with WUSTL (i think, don't know a lot about engineering rankings), and very numbers based. at the duke info session i went to the engineering rep implied they really don't care about ECs you've done that aren't math/sci/robotics, etc. i think that most engineering schools actually are this way.</p>
<p>Actually Duke, is up there on top choice list, except it's largely a reach for me. I'm looking for slightly less competitive programs. And to be honest, I'm in no way applying to that many schools. I just brained stormed a list of possibly match colleges, in the hope you guys would discuss the merits of any of them, and how "number based" and good they are.</p>
<p>Wash U and Tufts come to mind BUT if you are a 1600/4.0 applicant, watch out!
These schools will wait-list you.
Their 25th-75th SAT percentile ranges are very small.</p>
<p>They have high 25th percentiles and relatively low 75th percentiles (given their 25th percentile).</p>
<p>I think Illinois is a good choice too.</p>
<p>Apply to Duke as well, :)
I wouldn't call Duke entirely number-based though.
Everyone here was really involved in an extracurricular or two in high school.
You have a near 100% shot of getting in if you are a 1600/4.0 applicant but besides that- Duke is a crapshoot.</p>