Junior Looking for Colleges in Northeast

College Search & Selection
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<p>I'm a Junior in an honors science program at my school. It basically means I've been taking advanced science and math courses since freshman year.</p>

<p>According to my transcript, my GPA is a 97.3 and I am in my school's top 11%.</p>

<p>I took my first SAT on Jan. 26th and I got a 1980 (CR: 610, M: 620, W: 750).</p>

<p>8th Grade:</p>

<p>-Honors Integrated Algebra
-Honors Spanish</p>

<p>Freshman Year:</p>

<p>-Honors Chemistry
-Honors Living Environment (Biology)
-Honors Geometry
-Honors Global History I
-Honors Spanish II
-Honors English</p>

<p>Sophomore Year:</p>

<p>-Honors Physics
-Honors Science Research
-Honors Algebra
-Honors Trig
-Honors Global History II
-Honors Spanish III
-Honors English
-College Marketing
-My elective was Council For Unity</p>

<p>Junior Year (this year):</p>

<p>-AP Biology
-AP US History
-Honors Pre Calc
-Honors English
-Honors Health (Required)
-Core Art/Core Music (Required)</p>

<p>Regents:</p>

<p>-Integrated Algebra (86)
-Chemistry (87)
-Global History (94)
-Physics (87)
-Geometry (82)
-Trig (85)
-Spanish (94)</p>

<p>Other:</p>

<p>-National Honors Society
-President of Global Outreach Club
-Council for Unity
-SING (all 3 years)
-Passport Club
-Student Organization</p>

<p>I plan to get great recommendations (including one from a NYC congresswoman).</p>

<p>I live in New York, so SUNY schools would be awesome. I'm also interested in New England and Pennsylvania. I'd like a school with a great science/pre-med program.</p>

<p>Binghamton is definitely one of my top choices and so is Northeastern.</p>

<p>Just looking for some other school recommendations from you guys! Thanks a bunch! It really means a lot.</p>

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<p>For pre-med you should definitely look at Stony Brook and U at Buffalo.
I’m assuming you’re planning to take the SATs again and try to bump up your scores?</p>

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<p>take the ACT as well. Some do better on that.</p>

<p>What are your parents saying about budget? How much will they spend? That info will likely determine where you should apply.</p>

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<p>Yes I’m definitely taking it again to raise my CR/Math scores. I don’t like Stony Brook very much because of the fact that a lot of students go home on the weekends, leaving it pretty dead. I’d like to have a good social life in college.</p>

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<p>Regarding the recommendation from the congresswoman, don’t go down that path unless you interned for her and worked directly with her a lot, or have some other connection where you did actual work of some kind that she closely observed. The “family friend” or acquaintance recommendation from someone like that is useless these days, and I think is just seen as trying to “pad” your application vs. having something concrete to say about you. You are a whole lot better off getting a recommendation from someone the admissions office never heard of, but who has a deep understanding of your personal qualities and strengths.</p>

<p>You haven’t answered the finance question… without an understanding of what your parents can say, and what your likely EFC is, it is hard to give recommendations.</p>

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<p>Okay, let’s say money isn’t an issue.</p>

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<p>Grapevine25, what was your SAT score and GPA?</p>