Match me with good colleges, please!

College Search & Selection
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<p>Hey everybody! I just turned in my early app to my first choice (thank goodness) and was looking at my list of other colleges and now I realize that quite a lot of them are top-heavy on reaches and my safeties and matches don't go well with me. Here are my stats. Can anybody, based on these and the facts that I want to be somewhere along the western or eastern seaboards and major in either biology, mathematics, or international relations, recommend good safety and match schools for me? Thanks!</p>

<p>SAT: 2200 (M:780, V:740, W:680)
SAT II: (Just took them this month) Bio (M), Math2c, and Lit.
ACT: 32 (Not taking again...)
AP: US History 3, W. History 4, Eng. Lang/Comp 5
IB: ITGS (SL) 5
GPA: 102.893 weighted/estimated 97-98 unweighted (out of 100)
Class rank: so far 1/492 (hope it stays that way...<em>crosses fingers</em>)
Courses this year: Orchestra IV, IB History of the Americas II (HL), IB English
IV (HL), IB Biology II (HL), IB Japanese IV (SL, ab initio),
IB Math (HL), IB Theory of Knowledge, and Speech.</p>

<p>Other info: IB Diploma Candidate</p>

<p>Honors stuff: (I'm only putting major stuff)
- People to People Student Ambassador (9th)
- Finalist, Southwest Junior Science & Humanities Symposium (10th)
- 32nd Army Air Missile Defense Center Teen Volunteer Award (10th)
- Fort Bliss Teen Volunteer Award (10th)
- Various National Dance/Drill Association Awards (10th)
- Close-Up Foundation/Presidential Inauguration Program Participant (11th)
- Military Order of the World Wars Youth Leadership Conference Delegate
(11th)
- National Society of High School Scholars (11th)
- National Honor Roll (11th)
- National Honor Society (11-12th)
- AP Scholar (11th)</p>

<p>Extra-Curricular Stuff: (again...major stuff only)
- Church Youth Volunteer (Choir, Youth Group, Children's Church, VBS) (9-
12th)
- High School Orchestra (9-12th)
- All-Region Orchestra (9-12th)
- Sub-Editor/Treasurer, High School Literary Magazine (9-10th)
- Member/Soloist, High School Japanese Language/Choir Club (9-11th)
- Member/Vice-Pres., Fort Bliss US Bowling Congress Youth League (9, 11-
12th)</p>

<p>Oh yeah...by the way, I'm a female Filipino in Texas...</p>

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<p>Duke, Rice in texas, Columbia, UPenn, Cornell, Brown</p>

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<p>Okay, bball87, I'll look at those and thanks for the reply...anybody else?</p>

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<p>Claremont McKenna
Georgetown
Goucher
Tufts
Northeastern
U of Pacific
Pepperdine
Pitzer
Pomona
U Redlands
U SanDiego
Scripps
USC
U Washington
Johns Hopkins
Stanford
U Penn</p>

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<p>thanks, collegehelp...I'll look at these, too...however, for some reason I think most of your and bball87's suggestions might be reaches for me...anybody concur or refute?</p>

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<p>i think ur test scores are really solid and will get u into the door of any of these places, but thats the first step, it's a very random process.
If you apply to enough of these places, you will hit a few or more. That is what happened to me. If you apply like a fool to 7 schools, 3 reaches, 3 matches, and 4 safeties. You might very well end up at a state school in Texas, and this is not meant to sound like the be all or end all. I would say apply to a bunch of places in different geographic reasons. It definetely helps that you are applying from Texas rather than like New York (long island), Mass, Penn, or NJ. Perhaps, try somethng like Northwestern and U of Chicago (i got into both, and they are phenomenal schools).</p>

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<p>Tufts, Georgetown, JHU are musts for IR.</p>

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<p>Okay...will do bball87! And snuffles, JHU was on my original list...I guess I wasn't totally insane about my list! <em>puts JHU, U Washington, and UPenn back on the list</em> Now to look carefully at the newly mentioned colleges...and if anybody wants to pitch in their two-bits I don't mind! I welcome it!</p>

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<p>You are solid. You will get into most of the schools on collegehelp's list. I think that you have a great shot at JHU. Claremont McKenna sounds like a great match for you, with their stress on leadership. You are in the running for the Ivies on Bball87's list. With Rice, I've heard it's harder for Texans to get in, but you probably will anyway. Bball87 has good advice- U Chicago, Northwestern. Duke, Northwestern, and Notre Dame may be good fits- Ivy-like with a practical, outgoing bent.</p>

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<p>Thanks OneMom! Hopefully, the adcoms will agree with you! ^_^ Anybody else?</p>

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<p>Hey people...I just got my SATIIs...they are:
- Biology: 760
- MathIIc: 770
- Literature: 670</p>

<p>What do you think?</p>

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<p>These are really good, and are consistent with your SAT I. You have a good shot at all of the top schools. I suppose that you ruled out the US military academies, but you would definitely get in if interested. You never said which first choice school that you applied EA to.</p>

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<p>for OneMom, I applied EA, or should I say SCEA, to Yale.</p>

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<p>Good luck! I really hope that you get in.</p>