Need Match and Safety Schools

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I am currently a Junior in high school and I'm trying to come up with some good "match" and "safety" schools. I live in Maryland. I go to a magnet school with a focus in math and science. My magnet school class is 55 and the entire school is a class of about 350-450 and I am in the top 1%. (There is no posted ranking at my school.)</p>

<p>2180 SAT (670 Math 730 Reading 780 Writing) - I haven't actually taken the SAT yet, this was my PSAT result from sophomore year so it should be higher</p>

<p>760 Math II SAT (going to retake-took early in sophomore year)</p>

<p>4.625 GPA, 4.0 UW GPA</p>

<p>AP World (4), currently taking: AP Calc AB, AP Physics B, AP Environmental Science, AP English Lang., APUSH, will take next year: AP Calc BC, AP Chemistry, AP Biology, AP English Lit., and possibly AP Physics C</p>

<p>Extracurriculars: Varsity Field Hockey captain, JV captain sophomore year
Club Field Hockey
Varsity Lacrosse (might be captain senior year)
National Honor Society (going to run for President)
Spanish Honor Society (might run for an office)
Tri-M Music Honor Society
Girl Scouts
Chamber Orchestra
Green Team
Summer Internship at Johns Hopkins Bayview (Biomed.)</p>

<p>I am looking to major in something bio related.</p>

<p>My reach schools:
MIT
Yale
Brown
Stanford
Princeton
Columbia
Hopkins</p>

<p>Do you guys have suggestions for safety and match schools? Also any tips for ways I can make my chances at my reach schools better?</p>

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<p>Match: Cornell, UPenn
Saftey-ish: Purdue, Bowdoin College, University of Michigan, Notre Dame</p>

<p>Chance me? <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1417436-chance-me-cornell.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1417436-chance-me-cornell.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Yeah, you have all reach schools on your list right now! What is your financial situation? </p>

<p>Every school offers bio, so you have a lot of options. What about some of the schools in the Boston area, since you are leaning east coast? How about women’s colleges (Smith, Mount Holyoke)? Both are strong in the sciences. St. Mary’s College of Maryland as a safety, and very inexpensive for you in-state. My D2 and I spent some time with a family friend who is a bio prof at one of the schools on your list, and she mentioned Haverford as a school producing Bio undergrads that are strong.</p>

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<p>I definitely need financial aid. My parents together make about 60-70k a year for a family of four. I don’t want to go to a women’s college.</p>