Need safety/match school suggestions

College Search & Selection
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<p>I'm having difficulty finding safety and matches.
I have already comprised a great list of schools that are essentially a crap shoot for me to get into.</p>

<p>stuff about me!</p>

<p>ACT: 35
SAT II's: Biology M: 750, Math Lvl II: 800</p>

<p>I could take the SAT I too, but I don't really see the point, as most schools take the ACT now..</p>

<p>GPA: 4.0 UW, 5.15 W (have no idea how they calculate it)
Class rank: 1 out of 435</p>

<p>AP
Calculus AB: 5
Stats: 5
Human Geo: 5
MacroEcon: 5
Biology: 4
US History:4</p>

<p>Next year I am taking: AP US Govt, AP English Lit, AP Chem, AP Physics B, C: Mechanics, and AP Psychology (phew!)</p>

<p>I completed all my HS math by 8th grade, and calculus 1 and 2 after first semester sophomore year</p>

<p>Extra curricular
Varsity Swimming: 4 years (since 8th grade) made it to state as an individual twice, placing top 16 in two events; captain next year
Club swimming: 15+ hours a week to stay in shape out of season
Math League: 3 years, top 3 in our conference each year, made it to state all 3 years (also captain next year)
National Honors Society (Junior + Senior year)
Science Olympiad: two years
SkillsUSA: Made it two nationals in their math competition twice, placing 3rd once
have played piano for nearly 10 years
had a research internship at a very prestigious medical institution for a semester
I have volunteered 100+ hours through my church, NHS, and SkillsUSA and another 100+ this summer and throughout next year at a hospital</p>

<p>I want to major atm in either: biochemistry, chemistry, mathematics, chemE or BiomedE</p>

<p>soo any help would be great!</p>

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<p>pleeassseeee!</p>

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<p>Eliminate the top 25 LACs and Unis, and there are only about 1,600 schools left for you to choose from.</p>

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<p>We really need to know which colleges are already on your list, along with an explanation of why you've chosen them, before we can make recommendations.</p>

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<p>okay, I really like the placement of harvard, how it's right in the middle of a city with a lot of liveliness around it, so that would be nice to have in a match or safety school as well.
I also like east coast more than the westcoast, midwest, south, or mostly anywhere else</p>

<p>Schools I am applying to as reaches
HYP - all good for pre-med. All have great campuses, great reputations, I figure I might as well give them a shot</p>

<p>Stanford, MIT: Both have programs in the sciences an engineering, stanford has a great campus, and MIT like harvard, is in the middle of a city (boston which = amazing) which is something that i like</p>

<p>Match: Rice - Would be a match right? Anyway, I like their science programs, also good for premed, except houston isn't so great with all the rain</p>

<p>Safety: University of Minnesota - I'm almost guaranteed to get a full scholarship there, but it is a bit large for me, and I don't like the twin cities so much</p>

<p>Soo any more safeties and matches would be excellent. Oh and merit aid = very good. Schools with great merit aid I like!</p>

<p>will this help?</p>

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<p>Boston University?</p>

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<p>Dude, you have a 4.0, amazing AP scores, stellar EC's, a near perfect ACT score, and ambition.</p>

<p>You have NO reaches. You have matches, (hypms), but the only aspect of "reach" is the level of crapshooting going on in admission offices.</p>

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<p>As flattering as that sounds, I still need safety schools!</p>

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<p>Safety schools would be the honors programs of the top state univesities in your home state. Another safety with good science and engineering programs would be Pitt.</p>

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<p>IF you are interested in ChemBE or BME, are you looking at Johns Hopkins? JHU has one of the best ChemBE/Biological Sciences, and the BEST BME! </p>

<p>As for safeties, your traditional State School...but you should be able to make it into a lot of schools, so just chill, lol :)</p>

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<p>for match try something like Carnegie Mellon and safety could be Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute.</p>

<p>P.S. the nice thing about applying to like 7 reaches if you're a really qualified applicant is that if you only have a 20% chance on average at each one of them , then you're chances of getting into 1 of them are good. it would be 79%.</p>

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<p>Rochester? Great sciences out there. Also check out Macalester - although there's no engineering, it's a great, great LAC. Carnegie Mellon would be a nice match school with engineering. I also daresay that Cornell would take you in with pleasure.</p>