<p>I have a 3.95 GPA UW with 12 AP classes + 1 community college class (multivar calc).
My SAT score is 2360 and my SAT II scores are 800, 790, 760, 720.
My extracurricular activities, IMO, are pretty strong and show my dedication, passion, leadership, and achievement.
I'm an Asian dude from south Florida going to a pretty good private school. </p>
<p>I'd like to major in chemical engineering and might complete the pre-med track on the side. Just in case the chemE requirements destroy my GPA for med school, I would still have good job prospects with the chemE degree. In addition to engineering and medicine, I'm also interested in finance and consulting. </p>
<p>Reaches:
Harvard
Stanford
MIT
Princeton
Penn-Wharton* (might try for M&T): I might ED here
Columbia
UChicago (They have a new molecular engineering program that sounds really cool). </p>
<p>Matches:
Vandy
Rice
UVA</p>
<p>Safeties:
U of Florida
U of Miami
UT-Austin </p>
<p>*My sister attends Penn and had roughly the same academic numbers I did. Am I legacy? Or does it only count if your parents went? Also, if this matters, she attends CAS, while I'm applying for Wharton. </p>
<p>Any suggestions for my list given my career goals? </p>
<p>Unless your parents are very wealthy I wouldn’t consider UT a safety - it will cost $50K/year. Also, their admissions are mostly determined by class rank which you haven’t provided.</p>
<p>Erin’s Dad - Did you see the young man’s stats? I’d say that UT is a pretty solid safety (and I inferred that they are pretty comfortable financially). I think it’s a pretty good list, especially if he applies ED to Penn, and bypasses HYPMS. Vanderbilt and WashUStL are both solid matches, approaching safeties, for an applicant with those test scores. They are very score-conscious in admissions. </p>
<p>A school is only a safety if it’s also affordable. I see nothing in the OP’s post to indicate that except possibly “pretty good private school”.</p>
<p>EDIT: well, at first I objected to the notion that schools like Vandy and WUSTL “approach safeties”, but Vandy does have a tendency to accept applicants with very high test scores, so acceptance rates may be misleading. </p>
<p>With all due respect to Vandy and I95, the OP is a match for Vandy and likely candidate for a tuition scholarship.
With stats like that, Vandy Admission is not going to ask what his ECs are so much as to note that he has them.</p>
<p>I know you’re going for the prestige, OP, but do make sure you visit the campuses. And you’re going to be able to live life without lacrosse? You have a bright future ahead of you.</p>
<p>Yes, that’s what I said. Normally, I would have objected to this, but Vandy is a special case, and very high scores indicate a high admission probability.</p>
<p>I95, I must have written my response and posted it before I saw you had edited yours. :)>- </p>