I have my official list of colleges I am applying to! What do you guys think!!??

College Search & Selection
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<p>I am a prospective Economics and Mathematics major. ( Hence #7 on EC's)</p>

<p>GPA: UW 3.5/3.6 W-School doesn't weight
SAT II's: 1520/1600 US-740 Mathematics level 2- 780 Spanish w/ listening- pending until fall, will be higher than a 750
ACT: 32 ( Just retook it, feeling better...)
SAT I: Taking first time as a senior, once in Oct, and again in November. ( Will get 2150+ as I am studying as hard as I possibly can this summer. Do you CC'ers have suggestions??)
AP scores: Euro-4 Psychology-4 English-4 Rigorous Frosh, Soph, Junior courseload.</p>

<p>Senior Schedule:</p>

<p>AP Public Policy
AP Micro Econ
AP Macro Econ
AP Calculus BC
AP Eng literature
AP Spanish Language
AP Biology
AP Government and Politics</p>

<p>Most Significant EC's:</p>

<p>1) Medical Club President ( 9,10,11,12)
2) Will be a national representative of Operation Fly inc.
3) Student Government VP ( 9,10,11,12)
4) Co-founded Students for Improving Healthcare (SIHC) (9,10,11,12)
5) Gay-Straight Alliance member (11,12)
6) Hospital Volunteering, Hospice volunteering, and local Mosque volunteering ( 500+ hours)
7) Citibank "Internship" under my cousin's supervisor, a hook according to my supervisor. </p>

<p>Sports:</p>

<p>1) Varsity Wrestling, Journeymen Wrestling club (9,10,11,12) ( This takes up an immeasurable amount of time. We practice 6 days a week.)
2) Travel Soccer (Summers, 9,10,11)
3) Track and Field ( 9,10,11,12)
4) Jui-Jitsu ( 10 years) Go to tournaments, and I have a beautiful trophy collection my father brags about :P</p>

<p>Recs: Very good, the teachers know my personal life etc, etc.
Counselor: Visit him once or twice a week, knows me very well.
School type: Public ~500 students
Ethnicity: You can tell from my username lol, Pakistani
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 60K to 80K, Don't need too much FA since I have a trust fund.</p>

<p>My official school list: ( Please be nice, it took more thought than you guys think!)</p>

<p>Reach:
UChicago
Tufts
Middlebury(EDII)</p>

<p>High Match:
Washington and Lee
Notre Dame
Vassar ( Gorgeous campus!)</p>

<p>Match( Did I get it right??)
NYU CAS ED
Hamilton College
Villanova University</p>

<p>Safety:
Union
RPI(Lally)
Siena</p>

<p>Thank you guys so much! :)</p>

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<p>Bump! Someone please help! :)</p>

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<p>you can only go ed at 1 place</p>

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<p>i think you would get in NYU ED so all the other schools on your list wouldn’t really matter :)</p>

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<p>Chocolate25-If I don’t get in ED NYU, then I have EDII Midd.</p>

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<p>I wouldn’t go NYU ED. What about all the other universities on your lists? Are they just second choices? If you get into NYU ED, then you can’t even apply to any other university, so unless NYU is your #1 choice and you’re absolutely sure that you want to go, don’t go ED.<br>
Also, what do you want to study? Where in the US do you prefer? What size campus? Your list of universities seems to be all over the place in terms of the atmosphere of the campus, size, location and traditions. Try to narrow the list down a bit if you can.
Also, keep in mind that many of the universities on your list provide little to none FA to international students. I don’t believe any of them are need blind towards international students, meaning asking for aid could decrease your chance of admission. Many universities don’t guarantee aid, or straight out don’t give aid to international students. It would take at least 50K (I’d put NYU as 60K) a year to study, which would only leave your parents with 10-30K a year for their living expenses. You say you have a trust fund, but can it pay for your entire education? Or, are you willing to use such a huge chunk of it to pay? There is a high chance that you wouldn’t get any money from the schools at all. Have you researched FA/merit scholarship for all of your universities? Do you have an university that is a financial safety for you? I don’t mean to rain on your party, but there have been so many stories this year of people who had to go to community college because they didn’t have a financial safety school, or couldn’t go to the school of their choice because of inadequate aid.</p>

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<p>Moosey-Well, I have a very supportive family that live mostly in the new england area with a few in chicago, and family is very important to me so that will dictate the likelihood of me going to any college. And yes, NYU is my first choice college overall because I have an undeniably large family in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. I was also raised in Brooklyn, so it will feel like home sweet home. ( Coney Island!) NYU has been my #1 choice since I was in middle school. Lol, I didn’t even know anything about colleges in middle school either. The name just resonates in my memories. </p>

<p>Back to the topic at hand…How do those universities look???</p>

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<p>since when is there an “ap public policy” </p>

<p>its not on the college board site…</p>

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<p>Oh sorry, I made a mistake, meant to say Gov and Politics, Comp and then Gov and Com, US.</p>

<p>I was just being lazy and I was running down my list of classes lol. But ANYWAYS, that isn’t the point! Tell me if I have a good list! Thanks!</p>

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<p>what about Columbia and Northwestern? Those seem to fit your family criteria.</p>

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<p>Those would be reaches no matter how good of an applicant I was. I have a couple of grades that I am worried about, especially in AP Euro and AP US because I just can’t stand learning that crap which is useless. I find intense displeasure studying history. I love to learn. I read 30 novels last summer, and shooting for 10 this summer. I love mathematics, and have my own theory for Fermat’s theorem. I also go to many conferences in Courant, and was interested in becoming an actuary at one point in time. Mathematics is my true passion, and being “good” at history will not matter in the long run. I also like politics and current events, but history is just busy work.</p>

<p>Columbia has too large of a core program, and my GPA is low
NU: Puts emphasis on class rank heavily, and my incompetent school uses UW GPA to rank students. This means students who do not take a rigorous courseload and have higher GPA’s are farther ahead of you.</p>

<p>I am NOT an international!??? I live in NY most of the time.</p>

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<p>Are you the guy that sent your version of Fermat’s proof to members of Caltech’s message board? Because if you are, you are a very strong academic. </p>

<p>Anyways, if you have UofC on your list, I really don’t see why you couldn’t get into Northwestern or (by a larger stroke of luck) Columbia. I live in the Chicago area, and honestly it is a harder to get into UofC than Northwestern. But, you seem like a strong applicant. Don’t apply if you can’t finish the app, don’t apply if you don’t like the school, don’t apply if you can’t afford the app, etc. But, don’t not apply because you think you have a very low chance. Most applicants have a low chance. Maybe if your GC could write in your rec about the ranking issue.</p>

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<p>Are you top 10% in terms of rank? Are you good at writing?</p>

<p>I’d scratch off Siena - unless you have a lot of family around that part, you can get in much better universities. If it’s really important to be close to family, then I’d scratch off Washington and Lee and Notre Dame too - it’s not in New England or Chicago. I’d second the Northwestern and Columbia suggestion, but this may give you too many reaches. But don’t worry about your GPA or rank. You have great ECs and great rigor in terms of curriculum. You do have a shot. But if you just don’t like Columbia then don’t apply. I would drop Tufts to high match. So in the end it would look like this:</p>

<p>Reaches: UChicago, Northwestern, Middlebury, (Columbia?)
High Matches: Tufts, Vassar
Match: NYU, Hamilton, Villanova
Safety: Union, RPI</p>

<p>If you want to keep Notre Dame and Washington Lee, then either don’t do Northwestern and Columbia, or give up a high match. Or do a lot of applying :P. But do try to keep it at around 10 if you can. A lot of applications can mean a lot of stress. Plus a lot of application fees.</p>

<p>P.S. Oh you’re not an international? Oops…disregard my former post then. I thought you needed FA as an international student.</p>

<p>P.P.S. You have a great chance of getting NYU ED, so you probably won’t need all this anyway :).</p>

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<p>Moosey- Yeah thank you for your help! I will definitely take your suggestions! I will probably drop Notre Dame and put in Northwestern instead. Washington and Lee is staying though since I am fond of their economics program.</p>

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<p>I would say RPI is low match/match… not really a saftey…
what do you want to major in???</p>

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<p>RPI is the “troy”-let lol. </p>

<p>I am a prospective Economics/Mathematics major. Pretty easy to get into Lally.</p>

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<p>I can’t believe I missed this topic for so long. I see you got your official list.</p>

<p>I agree with another poster before who said “crossing out Siena.” Not only can you get into a better university, but I went to CTY there and the dorms are absolutely terrible. Bees all over the shower rooms, dorms that look like jails with no AC … Also, RPI has a reputation for computer nerds, and I know you personally so I don’t think that’s a good choice. And I don’t think you play hockey. ;)</p>

<p>I think you have a good shot at getting into NYU ED, so good luck. That’s about all I can say.</p>

<p>Also, what’s with the heavy senior courseload? I would cut some of those AP’s out of my schedule, since I fear you might get some 2’s after seeing your current AP scores. (I’m only taking 4 next year.) Also, you’ll be self studying several of these since our school doesn’t have the AP for those classes.</p>

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<p>DMOC- Yeah! I know, I am going to start self studying for three of them since our school doesn’t offer them, but it is a win-win situation, because by the time my AP Scores come in, the college I end up going to won’t see them, and if i do well, then I can get credit! </p>

<p>But yeah thanks for the advice dan. I know you know me too well lol. I just can’t pick good safeties!</p>

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<p>I would still drop some of those AP’ s… come on, have some extra fun time. :slight_smile: However, you should definitely stick with BC Calc with me, since you’ll probably end up copying all my work anyway. :)</p>

<p>Union’s not bad as a safetly school. I don’t know much about it but I’ve played on their soccer fields and been in their gyms.</p>