<p>Hello!</p>
<p>I am a high school junior and I attend a school where everyone seems to assume they're going to Princeton, Stanford, or at least Berkeley. I know that this is not the case and that even the most outstanding students can't always get in to those schools! I want to go to a great college, but I don't even know what schools I can consider "reaches" and which ones I should just accept that I won't get into...please help give me a list of schools that I have a chance of getting into, might get into, definitely won't get into, and can definitely get into. Anything will help, I'm just trying to get a general idea:</p>
<p>Here are my stats:</p>
<p>State: CA
Rank: School doesn't do rankings
Ethnicity: White
Transcript:</p>
<p>Freshman yr:
Spanish 2 A/A
Oration A/A+
Biology A/A
State Requirements (1 sem) A
World Geography (1 sem) A
English A/A
Algebra II H B+/A-</p>
<p>Soph:
Intro to Journalism A+/A
Trig/Precalc H A/A-
Chem H A/A-
Art I A+/A
World History A/A
Spanish 3 A/A
English A/A</p>
<p>Junior:
Newspaper
Spanish 4H
AP US
AP Chem
AP Calc BC
English H</p>
<p>planned for senior year:
Spanish 5 AP
Stats AP (or community college math...thoughts?)
English AP (lit or lang?)
AP Physics
Gov
Newspaper</p>
<p>So far, all of the classes I have taken have been the highest honors/AP option available at my school. I am expecting to get Bs in AP Chem and Calc this year (trying hard, but they're difficult!).</p>
<p>SATs so far:
Just Math IIC: 780
PSAT last year:
210 (planning on higher this year)</p>
<p>ECs: Volunteering at a day camp for underprivileged kids my first summer of high school, marching band every year (all year), charity group (~40 hours of volunteering a year), a few random clubs (not in any leadership positions), took a college spanish immersion course, newspaper (junior and senior year), volunteering for an after school program (3 hours a week, 2 years)</p>
<p>So...what do you think (I know, not much to go off of)?
Oh and my teachers don't really know me so I'm not expecting very good recs.
I mainly want to know about colleges within CA...what UCs could I try for? What about the Claremont Colleges? Is Stanford even an option? What about schools outside of CA, Northwestern? Wash U? Anything I can do to improve?</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>