Looking for matches (any advice is appreciated)

College Search & Selection
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Intended Major: Biomedical Engineering/Biochemistry

Race/Ethnicity: Asian (Indian) middle income

State: Texas

GPA: 3.85/4.00 unweighted, 4.53/5.00 weighted (Actually a 6.833/7.0 at school)
Rank: 3/904 at a noncompetitive high school that sends 1-2 kids to ivies every other year

Scores:

SAT: 1570 (770 V/800 M) 5/7/6 Essay
SAT II: Math II 800, Chem 790, Bio M 770
APs: Calc BC: 5 w/ 5 AB, Chemistry :5, Lang: 5, Physics 1: 4, Biology: 4, Comp Sci A: 4, Spanish IV: 3, APUSH: 3
(Taking Physics C, Art Studio 2D, Gov/Eco, Lit senior year)

Extracurriculars:

Science Olympiad (Captain)
-Organize an annual invitational that gets over 70+ schools in attendance and raises $10,000 in profit
-Led team to 3-time district champion, 3-time regional champion, 2-time top-10 finish at state

Research (Intern)
-Currently working on a project about molecules affecting circadian rhythms
-Spent over 300+ hours over two years doing research

Mu Alpha Theta (President)
-Hold fundraisers and SAT tutoring for kids in our school, as well as tutoring for math classes
-Organize small in-school contests and inter-school contests as well as participate in national contests (AMC, etc.)

Houston Pre-Freshman Enrichment Program (PREP)
-Four-year summer program based in STEM
-Courses in robotics, computer programming (learned RobotC and C#)
-Won awards for highest grades in class

Science Bowl/UIL (Captain)
-Hold practices every week
-Placed second at District Science UIL contest

Art
-Compete in local contests, member of National Art Honor Society
-Trying to sell artwork to local coffee-shops and neighbors

Volunteering

-100+ hours volunteering at my local hospital
-Started a shoe drive for kids going back to school

Awards:

AIME Qualifier, 3x AMC top scorer, Science Olympiad medals at state, regional, and invitationals, Individual medals at District UIL for Science (Including Biology & Chemistry), Won school science fair and went to regional science fair, Congressional Service Award Bronze Medal, CelebratingArt High Merit for artwork and published on book cover, Northwest Art League Best of Show, District Rodeo 2x 1st Place category

Possible publication + regeneron sts submisstion

Looking for colleges that are matches, offer good fin. aid (parents could pay a little bit but most likely won’t contribute), have relatively large classes, urban or suburbs, east cost (mostly just dont want colleges in the middle of america), and that are matches

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It’s important to know what you could pay under the guidelines not what your parents want to pay.

All private selective schools ask for a css profile as well as fafsa. This would capture home equity or business interests. It’s inpkrtsnt to size this distinction.

I would sting my suggest you run an efc calculation and NPC calculator for a random list of schools.

Say usc Chicago HPYSM Rice Georgetown Emory Vanderbilt Boston college USC types and oos public’s like UCB Michigan and Virginia and ut Austin

Get a sense of those and that will give a better sense of match names for you. Your profile is super strong. But if you get in and can’t go that is less than an optimal process.

Post some results for some of the shcools listed. Because if efc is low enough it opens up the world to you especially at meets full need schools.

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Top, urban, east coast. Gatech and Johns Hopkins.

Since you are in Texas, just go to UT it will save you about 20k a year.