<p>I need help editing my college list! My guidance counselor is not terribly helpful, and it would be great to get some feedback on this tentative list:</p>
<p>MIT (EA, recruited athlete)
UChicago (EA, recruited athlete)
Harvard
Dartmouth
Wash U St. Louis (recruited athlete)
Columbia (recruited athlete)
Williams (recruited athlete, many family members are alumni)
Carnegie Mellon (double legacy)</p>
<p>Stats:
White female, attending public school in NJ that sends many students to top schools
SAT: 800M, 800CR, 780W
SAT IIs: 790 Lit, retaking my 720 Math II and Physics in October
GPA: 3.9 UW (a B+in French) and 4.41 W. All APs. Top 10% in class
APs: US Hist 5, English 5
ECs:
-Track and cross country: All-American and All-State athlete.
-News editor for the paper
-National Merit Scholar
-National Honor Society
-attended the Governor's School on Engineering and Technology for a month this summer (a selective scholarship-based program at Rutgers for top NJ students), wrote a paper on my scientific research
-Mock Trial
-Environmental Club
-Harvard Model Congress delegate
-Physics Team and Physics Olympics
-Moody's Math Challenge participant
-Published in a poetry anthology
-Contributor to school literary magazine
-contributing editor to an online magazine for Neutrogena and Teen Vogue
-Outward Bound Youth Leadership member (scholarship program)</p>
<p>Do I need more safety schools? More target schools? Less? Any advice would be great!</p>