Hey!! Thanks for clicking on my post! I would definitely love a few safety/reach schools in the East Coast as I am determined on attending a Uni there. I intend on majoring in the Bio field (specifically wanted to focus on ectogenesis! i know, weird). My first choice is Cornell, and I plan on applying to JHU and Penn.
Here are my stats so far:
Gender: F
Ethnicity: Asian
State: HI
Income Bracket: <25K
GPA: 3.88 UW / 4.02 W (planning on reporting my unweighted instead)
Class Rank: top 1% of 350+
ACT: 33
Math: 34
Reading: 30
Science: 34
English: 35
Essay: 16 (I took the essay on the October 2015 test…)
SAT II: Taking Bio and Math 2 in December
Senior Year Courses:
AP Calculus AB
APUSH
AP Lit
AP Bio
Orch 4
STEMworks
Spanish 3
Junior Year Courses:
AP Chemistry
AP Psychology
Pre-Calculus
Honors Physics
Spanish 2
AP English
Orch 3
ECs/Actitivies:
- 2nd Violin Sectionals Teacher (2 years)
- Orchestra (4 years) First Violin (2 years)
- Science Olympiad (started this year, placed 3rd for an event)
- President of the BioChem Club
- Vice President of the Physics and Astronomy Club (2 years)
- Captain of the MUN Team (2 years)
- PAAC Club (2 years)
- HOSA (started this year)
- Developing an app with three other students for the safety of Alzheimer patients
- A few sports, but they were very on/off (track, soccer, fencing 1 year ea)
Thanks! <3
Reaches:
-American University
-Barnard College
-Bates College
-Bowdoin College
-Carnegie Mellon University
-Colgate University
-Cornell University
-Dartmouth College
-Duke University
-Georgetown University
-Haverford College
-MIT
-Tufts University
Safeties:
-Agnes Scott College
-Bennington College
-Berry College
-Bryant University
-Bryn Mawr College
-Canisius College
-Clark University
-Clarkson University
-Clemson University
-Dickinson College
-Elizabethtown University
-Florida A&M (You’re eligible for full ride)
-Gettysburg College
-Goucher College
-Hampden-Sydney College
-Hampshire College
-Howard University (You’re eligible for full ride)
-Penn State
-Temple University (You’re eligible for full ride)
You’re also eligible for full ride at North Carolina Central University. It’s not a great school, but they have biology & it’s on the east coast.
@newjerseygirl98 Thank you so much for this amazing (extensive!) list! Truly appreciate it <3
For safeties, take a look at http://automaticfulltuition.yolasite.com/ . Also, see if University of Hawaii is affordable to you in its on-line net price calculator. Use the net price calculator on any other school where you are checking for need-based financial aid.
@ucbalumnus Thanks for the suggestion! UH is out of the picture for me; It’s not a place I imagine myself in for four years. I need to leave this rock ASAP, LOL.
^ many of the colleges from post 1 don’t work because they don’t meet need and/or are very expensive (+ Hampden Sydney is male-only, I don’t know how it even made it to that list).
As a low-income, Pacific Islander (?don’t forget to check that! Or are you Asian rather than Pacific Islander, ie., you’re just living in Hawai’i but not originally from there? Because your situation is very different at top school whether you’re one or the other…) your odds would be best at “super aid” schools, so Cornell, JHU, and Penn are good picks, but why not apply to one among HYP? What about Stanford?
Definitely apply to Rice, Davidson, Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Barnard, Scripps, Macalester, Carleton, Grinnell, Middlebury, Harvey Mudd, for reaches that meet full need.
Then: Case Western, Tulane - likelihood of excellent merit aid.
Honors College at Pitt, UAlabama, UMinnesota Twin Cities, are all quasi-safeties with merit scholarships. Add St Olaf, Hendrix, Rhodes.