<p>I'm a high school Junior, and still have time to decide what college i want to go to. Based on the following info can you guys suggest some colleges.
Intended Major: Biomedical Engineering/ Pre-med
GPA:3.8
SAT: i got a 198 on psat no practice, hoping to get between 2100-2200
ACT:32
Class rank: top 5% out of 500
Course Rigor: All AP and honors(currently 5 ap classes, 9 by end of senior)
Extra Curricular: Tennis(captain), Cross Country, Track, DECA(president), Math team, Student council, National Honor Society, Principal selection committee.
Honors/awards: national merit scholar(first level) Mass Insights Math and Science Award.
Community Service: 100+ hours everything from teaching kids tennis to Haven from Hunger
I haven't asked any teachers for recommendations yet, but i know that they will be very impressive.</p>
<p>Are you looking for a large school or small? What area of the US do you want to live in? Do have any hooks? Are you good enough at tennis or track to contact the coaches at the college you will apply to? There are a lot of schools that you might excel at- are you looking for financial aid? Some Universities I think would be safe for you would be American, Boston University, Univ of Miami, Georgia Tech, and Case Western. Some a little more difficult would be Wake Forest, Emory, Rice, and Johns Hopkins. I am familiar with these because my kids got in them, but financial aid was important and not all of these meet 100% of your need. So not knowing the answers to the above questions makes it hard to direct you. If you provide some additional info then it would be easier to help!</p>
<p>I agree with ricehopkinsmom’s questions and suggestions - and btw our S has applied and is waiting to hear from both of those schools. Other questions: do you want to be a big fish in a small pond, or vice versa? If as it is in her case, and ours, that financial aid is a real decider, you should consider retaking your ACT and I hope you’re taking an SAT prep course. I say that because if FA is important, you’re on the cusp of stats that a number of schools would want to offer merit aid for. Your PSAT isn’t high enough to get into the National Merit track, but there are a number of “flagship” state universities that offer really good merit aid to attract a cadre of higher performing students. Most are in the south and southwest, including Arizona State, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Alabama, Kentucky, and several of the non-flagship state schools, like the U of Texas at Dallas. That’s if you’d like to be a bigger fish in a big pond, i.e. one of the top academic kids at a big state school.
For the bio-e/pre-med question, is it that you’d like to do one or the other, or to do bio-e as a pre-med program? As ricehopkinsmom suggested, JHU is, for my money, simply the best there is anywhere for BME, and Rice ain’t shabby either, esp with the huge med center right across the street there in Houston.
An interesting option might be the University of Washington. UDub, as they call it, is one of the more affordable flagship state universities and has the reputation as a mini-Ivy. I happen to like Seattle but if sunshine is important to you I’d stick with the south or southwest.
If the engineering part of a pre-med track is less important to you then you have a lot more options. Interesting options that come to mind are smaller liberal arts colleges like Knox, Carlton, and Grinnell, or other flagships like Indiana.
And of course I have to put a pitch in for my alma mater, the University of Virginia. :-)</p>
<p>Most of my friends who have applied as BME majors have applied to schools like WashU, JHU, UMich, UPenn, Cornell, Vanderbilt, the UCs, UIllinois-Urbana, Rice, Princeton, Rutgers New Brunswick, Drexel, George Tech, RPI, UVa, and Columbia.</p>
<p>Hopefully that’s a comprehensive enough list for you; it’s up to you to research/visit them and apply accordingly. As for your stats and chances, however, I’d say most of those schools should be in your consideration.</p>