Please help me finalize my college list...

College Search & Selection
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<p>female/hawaii
public</p>

<p>3.84 W GPA
3.67 UW GPA
rank (Somewhere in the top 10 out of 355, messed up on my ranking and I think they're redoing it.)
took all aps offered except for ap physics c and ap psych (took it at cc)
SAT: 1830, retake in october
SAT IIs:
650 - chem
680 - us hist
ACT: 31, will retake in october</p>

<p>not-so-great ecs:
orchestra - 4 years (officer senior year)
some clubs (no positions held)
xc - 10th and 12th
piano - 5 years
chinese school - graduated (10 years)
volunteering at humane society and pharmacy</p>

<p>awards:
national forensic league
possible ap scholar (still waiting for one grade)</p>

<p>majors: chemistry, chemical/environmental engineering, or pharmacy</p>

<p>currently looking at:
umich ann arbor (my dream school but a bit of a reach)
university of rochester
usc (?)
university of wisconsin-madison
university of portland
carnegie mellon
creighton</p>

<p>I'd really like to go to a college preferably in the northeast area, but I wouldn't mind western or midwestern. I'm even open to Canada. I'm in need of merit aid, but I know it'll be hard with my stats...</p>

<p>Thank you!!!</p>

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<p><em>bump</em></p>

<p>Please, I really need help...</p>

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<p>not Northwestern or UIUC? I applied to creighton as a freshman, was accepted, then was a little weirded out by the orientation.</p>

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<p>also, i don't think umich is such a reach for you, especially from hawaii</p>

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<p>Your ECs look perfectly fine to me, as do the rest of your stats. Don't stress about it too much. </p>

<p>I see that u have UMich and Wisconsin - why not the University of Minnesota Twin Cities? Those three are sort of linked in my mind, along with UIUC which someone mentioned here before and Indiana-Bloomington.</p>

<p>For pharmacy - what about Rutgers or the University of Rhode Island? Also, I got a pamphlet from SUNY Stony Brook in the mail and it looked like a nice place, dunno if they have pharmacy but they have several accelerated science/engineering BS/MD programs. And it's not too far from NYC. </p>

<p>Yeah, sorry, I'm not really helping you narrow your list down! :-D</p>

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<p>Oh yeah, and I also think you're at advantage because #1 you're a female applying for engineering/science program and #2 you're from Hawaii.</p>

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<p>thanks for all the suggestions, but I forgot to add any ideas for safeties?</p>

<p>-thanks</p>

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<p>^^ yeah, you're in good shape</p>

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<p>i would say that creighton is a safety for you, also portland, even wisconsin</p>

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<p>Thanks for all the help!</p>

<p>I think this is almost finalized..</p>

<p>University of Rochester
Carnegie Mellon or Tufts
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Tulane University
USC (might take off)
University of Portland
Boston University
NYU (not too sure about this one either)
Penn State
Colgate University
Syracuse University</p>

<p>...As you can see, I really want to go east (specifically near/in NY). My question is, am I applying to too much match/reach schools? Should I replace some with more safeties? How much financial aid/scholarship will play a big role in my decision, so should I apply to lower tier schools in hopes of getting more financial aid??</p>

<p>`Thanks</p>