Looking for one more school to apply to...

College Search & Selection
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<p>So far applying to:</p>

<p>U Maryland
U New Hampshire
U Chicago
Boston College
Northwestern
Johns Hopkins
Cornell</p>

<p>for Chemistry, looking for maybe one more?</p>

<p>Stats:
GPA: I want to say 3.9 out of 4?
Rank: Somewhere between 2 and 8 out of 300
Public School</p>

<p>SAT I: 780 M 750 CR 710 W
SAT II: 740 Chem 800 Math II (Maybe taking Lit and Physics and retaking Chem)
AP: Chemistry 5
English Lit (Senior Year)
Physics B (Senior Year)
Calc AB (Senior Year)
...My school doesn't have many APs</p>

<p>ECs:
-Destination Imagination (Friend and I introduced the program to the school, team recieved highest award, The Da Vinci Award)
-Varsity Math Team (Scored #2 Highest Scoring Junior in Tri-State League, Tri-Captain)
-National Honors Society
-Winnacore (Basically an Honors Society for Community Service)
-80+ current hours of comm. service
-Tutored two students in Chemistry
-One year of JV Tennis (Sad, I know, but the following years, schedules conflicted and my coach wouldn't budge)
-One year of Astronomy Club (School ended due to funding)
-National Latin Exam: 4 Awards/Honors (One a year!)</p>

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<p>Which of these is your safety? Are you certain of admission there based on your stats? Can you pay for it without any financial aid other than federally determined financial aid? If not, then find that safety now. </p>

<p>You can earn a decent degree in Chemistry at just about any college or university in the USA. Do you have any idea what you’d like to do with that degree once you have it? Teach? Research? Work in a particular industry? The answers to those questions will tell you more about which colleges and universities are good options for you.</p>

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<p>What state do you live in? I would pick a financial safety if money is at all a concern–possibly your in-state public.</p>

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<p>Georgetown</p>

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<p>Carnegie Mellon, if you’re really focused on science. University of Pittsburgh also has good science programs if you’re looking for a safety.</p>

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<p>Oops, I forgot to mention that I am also interested in Math!</p>

<p>UNH and UMD are my safeties (live in New Hampshire)</p>

<p>Money is no real object…</p>

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<p>Then Carnegie Mellon would definitely be worth a shot, I think. Are you interested in trying for MIT at all?</p>

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<p>I was not a fan of Carnegie…</p>

<p>And no one in my school, including a kid who was accepted at Harvard and all of the other wonderful Ivies, has ever gotten into MIT…</p>

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<p>That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t apply. No one in my school went to Georgetown before and I am now.</p>

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<p>I would check out both Tufts and WashU. I think they fit in well with the rest of your list.</p>

<p>Also, what about a small school, just to balance the list out? No doubt you’ve heard of Bates/Bowdoin/Colby, but what about maybe Kenyon? Colgate? Amherst? Williams? Sometimes I think it’s good to have at least one school on your list that you really like but that doesn’t follow the fold of the other schools, so that come decision time, you have schools that look different from each other on your list.</p>

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<p>With a resume like that, you should shoot for the stars. For chemistry and math, try: Harvard, Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, U Chicago, UCLA, UW-Madison.</p>

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<p>unalove: I should have mentioned this, but I don’t really like the small, liberal arts ones. I was looking more for Universities…</p>

<p>Also, I am kind of a fan of the Northeast.</p>

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<p>Stanford, MIT</p>

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<p>If you’re willing to hop down south a bit, maybe Duke?</p>

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<p>I’ll look into it!</p>

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<p>But I want snow :-(</p>

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<p>How do you guys feel like I would do with Tufts or U Rochester?</p>

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<p>Tufts is a great choice for sciences.</p>

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<p>what about math?</p>

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<p>? ?</p>