<p>GPA 3.7/4.0 (public school in CA)</p>
<p>SAT
Reading 540 Math 670 Writing 540</p>
<p>SAT Subject Test<br>
Chinese with Listening 740<br>
Mathematics Level 2 640<br>
Physics 670</p>
<p>Stanford/UCLA/UCB/UCSD and any of the Ivies would all be reaches. Intended major? </p>
<p>@wodoo1, there are literally hundreds of “reach schools” out there. If you’d like advice on some that might fit you, we will need more information about what you are looking for. Do you have a planned area of study? Do you have a part of the country you’d like to be in? City vs. rural? Large university vs. small college?</p>
<p>Want to find a famous big University and major on engineering, biology, or physics. </p>
<p>Do you have specific “match” or “safety” schools picked out?
With a 1750 SAT and 3.7 GPA, For nationally ranked science universities, I would suggest schools like Carnegie Mellon, Purdue, and University of Rochester.</p>
<p>I selected UC merced and UCSC as safety schools. Are they safety schools?</p>
<p>Merced is too much of a safety, if anything you shouldn’t even apply there. Look at UCR (Safety) UCSC(safety/match) and then there is UCI, UCSB, UCD. those would be matches. UCSD is a reach and the rest are too far of a reach. Maybe look into CSUs like pomona, slo, and sdsu?</p>
<p>UCM and UCR are more low matches than safeties.
I second URochester, and I would add RPI, if you’re a girl Olin.</p>
<p>I’d add Case Western, UCSB, Boston University, USC (SoCal one), and the University of Michigan.</p>
<p>Olin has an enrollment of 300 kids. Think about that when you apply</p>
<p>MIT, GIT, VT, Purdue, VIT, CIT, and Case Western are all good engineering schools that are reaches for you</p>
<p>There’s a difference between a reach and a waste of money. Cal Tech, MIT, Stanford, and probably UCB/ UCLA fall into the latter category.</p>
<p>Some people are being ridiculous here.</p>
<p>The student has good, but not high test scores. He shouldn’t waste his time with MIT, Cal Tech and Stanford…and similar.</p>
<p>The lower UCs are matches, not safeties, unless you have guaranteed admission into one of the lower UCs…do you?</p>
<p>Apply to all the lower UCs…UCR, UCM, UCSC. Apply to CSULB, CSUFullerton, the Cal Polys.</p>
<p>Your reaches would be UCI, UCSD, UCLA, UCB, UCD.</p>
<p>Thanks mom2.
I forgot to mention I am 8th grader and want to skip HS.</p>
<p>Then you need to pick a school near your parents. That is a big forget, no?</p>
<p>maybe no, want to give mother the surprise of her life</p>
<p>With that level of maturity (appropriate for a 13-year old), you’re not going to be able to go straight to college.
Please realize that applying to college will require your parents’ signature 
and that college isn’t a “surprise” but a process you should discuss, at length, and over about 2-3 years, with your parents.
Finally, you MUST choose something close to home since you’ll have to live with your parents… and even if you’re gifted, they won’t let you drive at 13. :)</p>
<p>If this isn’t a goof (up for debate, obviously), then you must realize there is a reason colleges require a high school diploma or equivalent in order to be accepted. The exceptions for a child genius are beyond rare and certainly are not made without the parents’ input. With those test scores and GPA, you don’t appear to fall into that category anyway, no offense. For your age, they are great.</p>
<p>Closing the thread as it seems to serve no useful purpose given those facts.</p>