<p>APs: US Hist (4), Lang (5), Euro Hist (4), Physics, Calc BC, Gov, Lit, French</p>
<p>35 ACT (35 E, 36 M, 33 R, 35 S, 10 essay)</p>
<p>ECs:
Yearbook - Editor in Chief/ section editor, 3 years
Inner-city relief work (very est'd program) - captain, 2 years
Varsity Forensics - 3 years
Robotics - 2 years
JV A Tennis - 4 years
Varsity Ski Team - senior year (skiied my whole life, competed in Nastar races)
Kumon tutor (high-level math) - 2 years</p>
<p>Awards/ honors:
National Honor Society - 2 years
AP Scholar
President's Service Award
Principal's List</p>
<ul>
<li>Well-regarded public high school</li>
<li>Engineering undergrad major</li>
<li>White female</li>
<li>intend to have engaging essays & will likely have great recs too (Physics & Math teachers)</li>
</ul>
<p>List:
Michigan (in-state)
Michigan State
Northwestern (lots of demonstrated interest, which I know they're big on)
Purdue
Carnegie Mellon (legacy)*
Princeton*
MIT
Notre Dame
Stanford*
Cornell
UC Berkeley*
Duke
Penn
Georgia Tech
Columbia
Johns Hopkins*</p>
<p>Your ACT score is stellar (top 1%). Great job! With your academic achievements, I’m sure you will get into at least half of the schools on your list. Your ECs are very well-rounded. You seem like you would be a great candidate. Have you taken SATs? Take them, if not.</p>
<p>^ Thank you both for your responses! lauren, what do you think about the tougher ones? I’m wondering if acceptances at at least some of them would be probable haha.</p>
<p>I think the tougher ones are just kind of a crapshoot…plenty of people with stats like yours get rejected and plenty get accepted! So it’s just kind of…apply and see. You definitely have good chances at all of them, because you have awesome stats.</p>
<p>Just remember: if you need financial aid, applying OOS to public universities doesn’t make much sense. UC Berkeley would probably love you, but is highly unlikely to give any money. And at this point, I’m not sure if paying $50+k/year for a UC is worth it (It’s just gotten too hard to get classes and graduate in 4 years) especially since, with your stats, you could get FA from privates.</p>
<p>I would think the colleges are pretty realistic, the ivies/HYPMS are sporadic as you probably know but I think most of the other schools you have a good shot at. As for financial aid, I’m not too familiar with it so I have no idea</p>
<p>Looks like a good list, with a good range of selectivity levels.</p>
<p>As I’m sure you know, a lot of the schools on your list are reaches for everyone. But since you’ve got good options for safeties and matches, no problem to apply to lots of reaches. And these are pretty realistic reaches for your stats, so you have decent odds of getting into some of them.</p>
<p>I have it on good authority that all schools in existence only look at your As and don’t count the questions you missed on the SAT. So you have a 4.0 and a 2400, and will without a doubt get into every college you apply to.</p>