here are 5 reaches.. can you order them

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Don't worry i'm applying to other safeties and matches but here are 5 reaches that I want you guys to put in order so I know which I should and shouldn't apply to. I'll appy to two of them.</p>

<p>Cornell University
Brown University
University of Pennsylvania
Duke University
Johns Hopkins University</p>

<p>Basic:
Male, Born in India, From VA
Go to average public high school for 3 classes and a Governor's School for 3 classes (math, science, technology ones). I've taken a couple of CVCC credit classes and some of my classes next year are also CVCC credit. </p>

<p>Academics: (after senior year will be around)
GPA - Unweighted: 3.95 ;GPA - Weighted: 4.3 to 4.4
Class Rank: 10th - 12th of 360,</p>

<p>Scores:
SAT: Took 3 times, best in June (770 M, 730 CR, 720 W) so 2220 and 1500 M+CR</p>

<p>AP Euro: 5. AP Eng Lang: 4. AP USH: 4. (self-study) AP PSY: 5 (self-study)
senior year AP's: AP Stat, AP Calc BC, AP Environ, possibly AP Bio</p>

<p>Taking SATII's in october: Math II, History, maybe Spanish to get out of some requirements</p>

<p>Extra Curricular:
-NHS -will probably be officer at our school (find out next year)
-Varsity Club - those with Athletic and academic varsity letter
-Key Club, Spanish Club, Latin Club</p>

<p>Leaderships Positions:
-Governor’s School Student Activites Board
-Train people at Hospital (will have around 200hrs)</p>

<p>Sports: (20 hrs/week - all year round, including summer)
-Indoor Track - Varsity Letter - senior co-captain
-Outdoor Track - Varsity Letter - senior co-captain
-Cross Country - Varsity Letter - senior-co captain</p>

<p>Volunteer/Service Work:
-Volunteering at the Lynchburg General Hospital (200 hours)
-Relay for Life - Made my own team that has over 40 people.. organized entire event and all fundraisers.. raised over $1000
-Various races for charity: 9th Annual Central Virginia Kidney Association Race, Turkey trot (cancer), other running related volunteering activites.</p>

<p>Honors/Awards:
-Accepted to Central Virginia's Governor's School - a school for Science and Technology.
-Participated at annual school trig-star tournament (trigonometry) - placed 3rd sophomore year
-Chosen to be one of four ambassadors to represent CVGS at NCSSMST conference - an association of Specialized Secondary School
-Participated in Research Symposium (top 10) and Regional Science and Engineering Fair.
-Accepted to VJAS (state science fair), Placed 2nd in the Psychology Category.
-AP Scholar with Distinction and aiming for National AP Scholar</p>

<p>College/ Summer Programs:
-Taking classes at local community college (CVCC)
-Boys State - elected as senator and clerk</p>

<p>Extra (academic):
-Research project about memory and perception because I'm interested incognitive science and neuroscience.. reserached neuroscience program at UVA
-My only two B's were in 9th grade year in easy classes and have improved and gotten straight A's since</p>

<p>My essays will be about my world (india-NJ-VA) and (try to) humor ones, and my passion of cognitive science
Guidance Counselor Recommendation will be very good because I'm first one at school to self-study AP's and the teachers will be also</p>

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<p>rank them how exactly? in terms of what? what are you applying to.. for example.. if it was BME i would put:
Johns Hopkins
Duke
then the rest.. not sure about order.
If it is something different, then it is a different story. Overall, the 'strongest' school is probs UPenn, Brown, Duke, JHU, Cornell.</p>

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<p>i mean in terms of hardest to get in for me</p>

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<p>the fact that u took SAT 3 times may be a bad thing. MAY. For me it will not because i can use the new Policy but i do not think you can. Anyway, for hardest to get into:
UPenn=Brown i think for admission strictness
Duke
JHU
Cornell</p>

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<p>I've never heard of admissions officers looking poorly on taking the SAT 3 times. 2 to 3 times seems to be the average amount of times people take it.</p>

<p>Also, do you like these schools equally as much? Cause I think you should apply to the two you like best, regardless if they will be the easiest or the hardest of the 5 to get into. Maybe your passion and desire to go to those schools will show through more in your essays. Additionally, it seems like all of these schools can be hard to predict, so you may as well take a shot with the two you like best...not the two you think you can get into.</p>

<p>best of luck!</p>

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<p>Taking the SAT 2-3 times is acceptable, but generally, the fewer times you take it, the better it looks.</p>

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<p>personally i would choose JHU and Duke over the others, but not for hardest to get into -- i dont think hardest admission is the best thing to go by -- but if its what you want, id say penn / duke / jhu / brown / cornell</p>

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<p>I'm not asking you guys to rank by difficuly of getting so i can pick the 2 easiest or hardest.. just wondering haha.. there are other factors in deciding the two reaches i apply to</p>