I think I picked the wrong schools...chance?

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<p>Hi I think I may have picked the absolute wrong schools to apply to. I dont think I can get into anything except CUNY.</p>

<p>Please chance me by my stats.</p>

<p>Background info: I go to an average inner city brooklyn school. A student was admitted from our school last year with a 3.3 and a 28 act.
I am African-American. I moved from a small suburban town in CT to flatbush in Brooklyn. (and I dont mean park slope) It had a huge affect on me and I wrote really well in my essays about the effect and how I tried to turn it into a positive experience.</p>

<p>Rank: 30/186 Maybe higher im unsure
Sat: 1810
SATII: Physics 550, Math 2 620, Math 1 570(dunno why i took it spur of the moment)</p>

<p>3.2 collective gpa. High A's, a lot of B's, 2 c's's no d's or f's
only took honors english, geometry, trig, and physics.</p>

<p>This year Im taking ap physics b, ap calculus bc, ap english language. These are the most rigorous courses at my school. With the exception of bc.</p>

<p>EC:
Journalist for School Newspaper junior(jr), senior(sr) years
Varsity soccer jr, sr
Chess Team jr
Chess Club jr
NYU Science Technology and Engineering Program for 3 years so and jr, sr
Invited and Attended National Student Leadership Conference at UC Berkeley
Piano since 7th grade</p>

<p>Child Care since 7th grade(Cared for a younger sibling since parents always worked in the city and had long commutes. This entailed meal preparation and homework help.) I was unable to do much outside of school because of this. This lasted until junior year. This would explain my lack of participation until 11th grade.</p>

<p>Summer employee at Memorial Sloan Kettering cancer research center. I worked in the lab with post docs not in the hospital. I performed experiments and prepared samples for the postdocs to use. I ran transformations, maxipreps, prepared dna and bacteria.</p>

<p>My boss from MSKCC says she is willing to write an outstanding recommendation for me as my work was phenomenal. </p>

<p>College List: all for engineering</p>

<p>Early Action: Northeastern, michigan, fordham rose hill, michigan state, umass amherst, minnesota twin cities, and maryland college park</p>

<p>Regular decisions:
columbia, cornell, pepperdine, lehigh, NYU, boston college, boston university, northwestern, RPI, Drexel</p>

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<p>Your chances at Columbia and Cornell are very low (although Cornell is POSSIBLE). Northwestern is a high reach, but honestly you could probably get into all the other schools on your list.</p>

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<p>Do you need financial aid? If yes, you would unfortunately be in trouble at most of these schools as most don’t meet need and your stats are not there for merit aid.</p>

<p>What can your family afford?</p>

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<p>I plan on applying for aid. Will that affect my decision? I can attend on partial aid if your asking if i can afford it.</p>

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<p>You have a solid chance at Northeastern.</p>

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<p>Bump…</p>

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<p>Early Action: Northeastern, michigan, fordham rose hill, michigan state, umass amherst, minnesota twin cities, and maryland college park</p>

<p>Regular decisions:
columbia, cornell, pepperdine, lehigh, NYU, boston college, boston university, northwestern, RPI, Drexel </p>

<p>Boston College doesn’t have an Engineering school and doesn’t do a cooperative program like Fordham. I’m not sure why you have Pepperdine listed. It doesn’t seem to meet your needs as well as some of these other schools. I think both Columbia, Michigan, and NU are really high reaches but overall I think your list is okay.</p>

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<p>Some schools Im applying to for other things. Im also interested in Biotech and business</p>

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<p>Anyone else?</p>

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<p>bump…</p>

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<p>Try the ACT. You could probably bump your percentile if you test better there.
Also, you’re an URM, so that goes for something. I’d say Cornell is a reach because of the grades.</p>