Help selecting 'match' schools.

College Search & Selection
1

<p>I have my list pretty much made, but I feel like it's [safety ------- reach]. Here's what I have so far:</p>

<p>University of Kansas (safety--I'll get a full ride here)
University of Pittsburgh (also a safety)
MIT (early)
^^applied to all of these already</p>

<p>Harvard
Princeton
Brown
Swarthmore
Duke
WashU</p>

<p>I want to add a couple of matches, but I'm not sure what that would be for me--here are some of my stats:
GPA: 4.0 UW, 4.16 W
ACT: 36 E, 35 M, 36 R, 36 S. 36 comp. (8 on the essay though)
SAT: 730 M, 780 CR, 800 W
SAT II: 800 Math Lvl II, 790 Chem, 740 Lit
APs: 5 Chem, 4 Calc BC, 4 English Language
Class rank: 1/161</p>

<p>My high school is small and only offers a few AP classes...I've been taking a lot of math/sci courses at our local university.
ECs are nothing extraordinary but nothing terrible either (I hope).</p>

<p>I want to study either computer science or chemistry, possibly going into pre-med with the chem. I was looking at Carnegie-Mellon, Rice, and UIUC as possible matches for me--any input? Other schools?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

2

<p>CalTech [ another reach], Harvey Mudd [ match], RSI. Agree with CM and Rice. You may want to add Stanford[ great CS and sciences but another reach]</p>

3

<p>Sigh...another one of "these threads." Not knocking your stats, OP but really.....you are plenty smart to figure this out on your own and you dont need to advertise your scores.</p>

4

<p>Johns Hopkins and Northwestern for chem and premed.</p>

5

<p>Tufts, Holy Cross, Hopkins, Brandeis.</p>