<p>I'm a high school junior and I basically know no colleges, except for a few local ones. I need your help for some suggestions. This is my basic info:</p>
<p>Location: Chicagoland Area</p>
<p>GPA Unweighted: 3.921
GPA Weighted: 4.316
Rank: 5 (should be 4 by the end of the school year)/275
High School: Public, Not very good school...</p>
<p>Sophomore: AP World H
Junior: AP Bio, AP Calc AB, AP US His, AP Eng Lan Comp
Senior: AP Calc BC, AP Psych, AP Chem, AP Macro Eco</p>
<p>ACT: ≈30-32
AP Exams: Calculus AB≈3-4, AP Eng≈5, AP Bio≈5
SAT 2s: Biology≈750-800, Spanish≈??</p>
<p>EC:
A few school clubs
Piano
Will spend summer volunteering
Will partake in some biology project over the summer</p>
<p>My best subject is English. Every English teach that I've had so far says that I write better than they do. I'm probably equally as able in biology. I can read biology for hours and not lose interest. I think that it would only make sense that I major in biology and minor in English. I want a career in either molecular bio research or scientific journalism. My first choice is JHU....but as you can see by my not-so-stellar resume, my only chance at getting in would be to apply Early Decision. So I would need to be sure that this is my first choice. Could you please suggest schools so I can begin my search. Thank you:</p>
<p>-Any State
-Prefer schools near large cities
-Any campus size, but not TOO small
-At least somewhat selective
-Prefer diverse environment/people
-Must have good Biology Program
-Public or Private</p>
<p>Your grades are good, but everything else is meh. The ACT could go higher and ECs are minimal although this could just be you being vague. Usually the first school people think of with good science and journalism is Northwestern, but you’ve probably considered it already as someone from around Chicago and it would be a reach. </p>
<p>I’ll suggest WUSTL, UMich, IU-Bloomington, UNC-Chapel Hill, UW-Madison, and Illinois as your safety. Going ED to JHU is good if financial aid is not a big concern.</p>
<p>really good at biology… most diverse top 20 school…high admission standards…near Atlanta… I’m talking about Emory… it matches pretty much all your criteria. Seriously consider applying. If you apply RD, I would say you have a 50-60 % shot of getting in.</p>
<p>“I think that it would only make sense that I major in biology and minor in English. I want a career in either molecular bio research or scientific journalism.”</p>
<p>Cornell.</p>
<p>Many, many options for a biology major. Read up on the programs in the College of Ag. and Life Sciences, and in the College of Human Ecology as well as the programs in the College of Arts and Sciences.</p>
<p>And, before you take this process even one step further, sit down with your parents and run some of the financial aid calculators. There are good ones at [FinAid</a>! Financial Aid, College Scholarships and Student Loans](<a href=“http://www.finaid.org%5DFinAid”>http://www.finaid.org) and at [College</a> Calculators - savings calculators - college costs, loans](<a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>Calculate Your College Costs – BigFuture | College Board) If you don’t know what the colleges will expect your family to be able to pay, and you don’t know what your family really truly is able to pay (these can be very different things), you won’t know what your real options are.</p>
<p>Georgetown, Vanderbilt, USC, UC Berkeley, University of Chicago, Tufts.</p>
<p>Here is a list of good bio schools, copy/pasted from another thread:</p>
<p>Biology rankings from Gourman Report
Caltech
MIT
Yale
Harvard
Wisconsin
UC San Diego
UC Berkeley
U Colorado
Columbia
Stanford
U Washington
U Chicago
Duke
Wash U St Louis
UCLA
U Michigan
Cornell
U Penn
Purdue
Indiana U
UNC Chapel Hill
U Utah
Johns Hopkins
Northwestern
Princeton
UC Irvine
Notre Dame
UC Santa Barbara
UVA
Brown
U Illinois Urbana Champaign
U Pittsburgh
Vanderbilt
U Oregon
SUNY Stony Brook
U Rochester
Tufts
U Minnesota
SUNY Buffalo
U Texas Austin
Florida State
Michigan State
USC
U Connecticut
UC Riverside
Rice
Iowa State
SUNY Albany
Case Western
Boston U
Ohio State
NYU
U Iowa
Penn State
Emory
Brandeis
U Kansas
Rutgers New Brunswick
Tulane
US Air Force Academy
U Missouri Columbia </p>
<p>And for reaches, you might consider Harvard/MIT/Princeton, all have VERY good science and biology programs. (Along with everything else, of course…) GL!</p>