Please Help Me Finalize My List!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a Chinese American female attending the top specialized high school in New York City. My tentative list of schools:</p>

<p>1) Stanford EA
2) Harvard
3) Princeton
4) Northwestern
5) Barnard
6) Wellesley
7) Carnegie Mellon</p>

<p>SAT I: 1560 (800M, 760 V)
SAT II: 780 Writing
760 Math IIC
730 Math IC
700 Physics</p>

<p>GPA unweighted: 95.06
GPA weighted: 94.99 (my school has a weird weighting system that punishes people for taking harder classes....as in my case)</p>

<p>Rank: my school doesn't rank</p>

<p>Senior Year AP Classes: AP BC Calculus, AP Statistics, AP Chemistry</p>

<p>other AP/honors classes: AP US history, (Research) AP Physics B, AP Macroeconomics, AP English Language, AP Spanish Language, Math Honors (sequential II, sequential III, precalculus), Advanced Topics Biology, Research Chemistry</p>

<p>College Programs: City College of NY College Now Program, Merrill Lynch Young Business Leaders Program (Baruch College), Columbia University Science Honors Program</p>

<p>EC's:
Volleyball: JV 1 year, Varisty 3 years, manager for boys varsity volleyball. I also play on 2 club teams and am the captain of 1.
Piano: 9 years, received a High School Diploma in Social Music from the National Piano Teacher's Guild.
Volunteer work: New York Aquarium, Catholic Big Brother Big Sisters mentoring program, Key Club, secretary for the Chairperson of District 2 of the New York State Music Teacher's Association (4-5 years)
Yearbook Editor In Chief
ARISTA national honor society: executive service council
Spanish Honor Society
Broadway Club
Photography Club
Intel Science Talent Search
National Merit Semifinalist
2003, 2004 NYC Math Fair - Gold medal in 2003</p>

<p>As far as majors go, I'm very undecided, leaning more towards math/science than the humanities. I like schools with nice campuses (close to a city) that are strong in both math/science and the humanities.</p>

<p>What are my chances, esp at Northwestern?? Do I have too many dreams/high reaches? Not enough safeties? Would it be wiser to replace Northwestern with Dartmouth?</p>

<p>Thanks a lot, I need to give in my final list within the next 2 days!!!</p>

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<p>what do you expect us to say.. your a potential candidate at all those schools</p>

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<p>i guess my main question is, is northwestern a high reach? or a semi reach?</p>

<p>thanks.</p>

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<p>semi-reach. do you go to stuy?</p>

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<p>yea, are u familiar with it?</p>

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<p>My advice is choose between Wellesley and Barnard now if you can, you will 100% get into both. I would then replace the one you drop with Dartmouth if that is what you would like. You are one of those HYPS maybies, DartBrownColumbiaPenn probablies, Cornell Northwestern very very likelies.</p>

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<p>thanks for replying, i thought about doing that, but i'd feel much safer applying to both barnard and wellesley.</p>

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<p>Maybe dump CMU then? Otherwise NU is in the bag, but be prepared to go there. It might be nice to have another top choice...</p>

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<p>I decided to replace Barnard with Washington University in St. Louis...do you think that was a wise decision? i can still change it if i change my mind....</p>

<p>also, my school weighted our averages AGAIN, this time rewarding students for taking AP classes, so my average goes up to a 97.15</p>