If You Were Me Where Would You Apply?

College Search & Selection
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<p>Okay, I was wondering if anyone could suggest realistic schools that i could get into. I want to major in chemistry so good science and research would be nice.</p>

<p>These are my stats:
Race: Black
Rank:16/526
GPA:3.86 UW 5.49 W
SAT: 2070 (790 CR 650 M 630 W)
SAT 2: no taken yet</p>

<p>Work Experience
6/1/07-7/25/07 Target (Missouri City, TX)
6/7/08-7/25/08
Employee Food Ave.
Provide high-quality food service
Mitigate customer relations problems </p>

<p>Activities</p>

<p>9th Elkins High School Track and Field Team
Ran 10 x 10 hurdles and 300 meter hurdles
2nd-10th Elkins High School Football Team
Linebacker, Kickoff, and Receiving Team
Directed the Defensive formation
(Quit because I broke my wrist and had to get surgery)
9th-11th Elkins Band
Concert Band(9th) Symphonic Band(10th-11th)
6th-12th Trumpet Player
Participated in UIL concert and sight reading contests
10th-11th Member 12th Captain Elkins Forensics Team</p>

<p>11th-12th Mu Alpha Theta
Member</p>

<p>11th-12th Science Honor Society
Member </p>

<p>11th Member 12th English Honor Society
Treasurer</p>

<p>Awards </p>

<p>9th District Runner-Up Football
2nd Place in district
10th District Champions Football
1st Place in district </p>

<p>Debate Awards</p>

<p>5th Place Team out of 197 Schools (State)
1st place UT Longhorn largest tournament in Texas (State)
Two time State Qualifier in Lincoln Douglass Debate (State)
1st Place Aldine Debate Tournament (Region)
3rd Place UIL District Extempt Speaking (Region)
6th Place NFL District Extempt Speaking (Region)
National Forensic League Special Distinction Honor (National)
State Quaterfinalist Extempt Speaking (State) </p>

<p>Science Fair Awards</p>

<p>Evalution of Photon Tunneling Probability by Spatial Variation Published by the Society for Ameuter Scientist
District Oustanding Achievement in Science Award (2006,2007,2008)
Top Chemistry Student 2 years
4th Place Science and Engineering Fair of Houston
4th Place American Physics Society-Texas Chapter</p>

<p>Original Research:
9th Quantitative Analysis of Electron Transition in Helium (150 hours)
10th Evolution of Time Independent Wavefunctions in an Electrostatic Field (240 hours)
11th Evaluation of Photon Tunneling Probability by Spatial Variation(200 hours)</p>

<p>Any suggestions would be great!!!!!!!</p>

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<p>You look like an excellent candidate for a lot of schools. That being said, you'd probably get more of a response if you posted some information about what sort of school you were looking for. Do you have an area of the country that you'd like to stay in, move into, get out of, or avoid all together? Are you interested in living in a city or would you prefer a rural campus? Are you looking for more of a liberal arts approach, or would you prefer going to a university or tech school? Is there an activity or sport you'd like your school to have? Is there a size you were thinking of--do you want someplace where you'll be able to identify just about everyone you meet, or a school where you can be 1 of 40,000? Are you interested in schools with a frat scene, or are those a total turn off? Answer some of those questions and I'd be happy to respond with suggestions of where to look.</p>

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<p>Do you want a smaller liberal arts program with a strong chemistry major (College of Wooster, for example), a large university, something near home, far from home, liberal-leaning, conservative, offering good financial aid ...?</p>

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<p>Well financial aid is a huge barometer (bc i have three other brothers one of which is already in college), but i would prefer not to be in a small city. But I also want a campus that is not too liberal (bc I am very conservative), but alot of the tops are liberal so I will have to face that fact T_T.</p>

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<p>with URM status on top of his stats, he looks like an excellent candidate for any schools out there.</p>

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<p>But my SAT seems pretty low. i am planing on taking the ACT, hoping for a 32.</p>

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<p>Stanford? With URM status and nice stats you can go anywhere.</p>

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<p>"Small city" meaning no city, or big city?</p>

<p>The intersection of big city and most conservative-friendly in the top n is probably Harvard and Chicago. (Based on my and my friends' experiences). I think you'll find an overall liberal skew there, but pockets of conservative. At least at Chicago, the UC Dems and UC Republicans do a lot of debates and programming together, and I've found there to be hefty opposition to typical collegey liberal movements (things like divesting from Sudan and kicking Coca-Cola off campus).</p>

<p>Harvard, Princeton, Stanford et. al. will make sure you can afford the school. If you get in :-)</p>

<p>You could probably also start looking around at good schools that have merit and need programs-- you'd definitely be a contender-- schools like WashU, Emory, and Vanderbilt.</p>

<p>Another possibility might be Amherst/Williams-- very different from what you're looking for as far as a city, but also conservative-friendly and also great aid.</p>

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<p>Yeah I hear Harvard is conservative friednl,but I don't know if I could get in there. but i will ook at some of those merit things to evaluate whether or not i might be competitive. thanks!!!!</p>

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<p>Not a sure bet, but that's what a good safety is for.</p>

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<p>I'd say U of Michigan is a good match school. And it's one of the world's premier research universities, so that would be perfect for your major. I would also look into UC Berkeley (if you can get your SAT up a tiny bit), UCLA, Wisconsin-Madison, and perhaps Duke. I know UCB isn't "conservative," but believe me when I say that you can be whoever you want/believe whoever you want there. Perhaps also check out Notre Dame and Boston College, they have decent sci programs from what I've heard.</p>

<p>I'd try and steer clear of small liberal arts schools, just cuz they won't have near the research capabilities or research funding as the major public ivies.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>