pleaseeee help me! I am desperate.

College Search & Selection
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<p>Hey everyone!</p>

<p>I am just wondering about the colleges/universities I should apply for based on my current stats and what I want to pursue later in life. Please help me. I am desperately needing advise b/c I am an International and don't really have a clue as to which schools are best at what i am considering majoring. </p>

<p>Standardized Tests:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT I: Verbal: 700 Math: 780 Writing: 700 (retaking) </li>
</ul>

<p>Academic Strength: </p>

<ul>
<li>Unweighted GPA: 4.00 out of 4.00</li>
<li>Class Rank: 20 out of 360 students (Top 5-10%)<br></li>
</ul>

<p>Extracurricular Activities: </p>

<ul>
<li>Volunteer at Retirement Home</li>
<li>Volunteering/Campaign at the Diabete's Foundation</li>
<li>Volunteer at Local Park's Ecological Society</li>
<li>St. John's Ambulance Trainee</li>
<li>Interperative Assistant at local aqarium</li>
<li>Food Bank</li>
<li>Soup Kitchen</li>
<li>Model UN</li>
<li>Newpaper Club</li>
<li>Yearbook Club</li>
<li>Peer tutor</li>
</ul>

<p>Awards and Recognitions: </p>

<ul>
<li>Honorable Mentions -Essay Competition- </li>
<li>Outstanding Volunteer Award<br></li>
<li>Honor Roll/Headmaster's List (every semester) </li>
<li>Academic Achievement Award (4 years) </li>
<li>Some other stupid ones</li>
</ul>

<p>Other Information: </p>

<p>Location: Canada
Hobbies: Taichi, Piano, Swimming, Badminton </p>

<p>Courseload (Senior):
AP Calc
AP Word History
AP Geography
English Honors
Graphic Design
Psychology
Leadership</p>

<p>I am thinking of going into one of the following: </p>

<ul>
<li>EDUCATION (general)</li>
<li>PSYCHOLOGY (general)</li>
<li>PHARMACOLOGY </li>
</ul>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>what are you looking for in a college?</p>

<p>size? location? special needs? anything?</p>

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<p>I do not really have preference. I just want to go to a good school that has a good reputation for the majors I want to go into. </p>

<p>Location:
- Preferably near the ocean? (as in west or east coast)
- Not in the south where it's really hot in the summer (California is okay though...)</p>

<p>Special Needs:
- Scholarships?</p>

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<p>Reaches? Matches? Safety?</p>

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<p>reaches: Yale, Penn, UCLA, Stanford, Chicago, Columbia, Vanderbilt
matches: Lehigh, Bucknell, NYU, Nichigan, UCSD, Colgate
safeties: Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Rochester, Maryland, GW</p>

<p>tried to give you a range here. this is mostly based on psychology because pharmacology and education isnt a wide spread major. i do know that penn, vanderbilt, GW, colgate and maryland have education and GW has pharmacology</p>

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<p>I really need help. Please give me some feedback.</p>

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<p>Pharmacology is mostly a graduate/medical field. For undergrad, you will be studying chemistry. Psychology is a popular major- most top schools will have decent psych programs. Education might be a bit harder to find- that might be the limiting factor. There are many, many colleges that would fit you, but Brown immediately comes to mind, as do Boston U and Oberlin. If you're willing to reconsider the South, Duke fits all of your interests perfectly.</p>

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<p>Thanks! </p>

<p>I don't think a school in the south would be a very good idea b/c I live in Canada and I am scared that I won't be able to adjust to the weather change. </p>

<p>Boston U sounds good. I've never heard of Oberlin :p
I think Brown would be a reach?</p>

<p>Are there anymore good reaches for me? Thanks in advance.</p>

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<p>Bumpppp!!!!!!!</p>

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<p>Ok, no one wants to help me heh?</p>

<p>Guess I am just not good enough for you.</p>

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<p>Brown is a reach for anybody- it is an extremely popular school. Since you have a few interests, maybe you should look at large schools. Check out Northeastern University in Boston- has a good pharmacy school. Also, George Washington University in Washington, DC. Maybe Loyola in Chicago, too.</p>

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<p>I suggest that you do your own computerized search, say at Princeton Review. That would be one way to help you narrow things down.</p>

<p>Another idea would be to post your request on the Parents Forum. Lots of knowledgeable and helpful people are there.</p>

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<p>The truth is for these majors just got to the best undergrad school you can, don't focus too much on the major. I would check out the top schools/ Ivies for sure.</p>

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<p>I feel very bumpy</p>

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<p>i already pretty much gave you the schools you should be looking at...what is there to bump?</p>

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<p>I am just looking for more advise, that is all.</p>

<p>Your advise was very helpful, bobbobbob. From what you and other's advises, I have narrowed down my potential school list to the following:</p>

<ul>
<li>CMU</li>
<li>U of Michigan (Ann Arbor)</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>UCSD</li>
<li>Vanderbilt</li>
<li>GW</li>
<li>Boston U</li>
<li>Cornell?</li>
<li>Duke?</li>
<li>Washinton U in St. Louis?</li>
</ul>

<p>Do you think the above list is good considering my major? Any other suggestions? </p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

<p>Replies will be greatly appreciated. =)</p>

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<p>Don't retake the SAT...what a waste of money. Your score out of 2400 is a 2180, and your score out of 1600 is a 1480. Those are fine scores for anywhere other than HYP.</p>

<p>UCLA is SO a match.</p>

<p>Reaches:
-MIT (for science)
-CalTech (for science)
-Harvard (good at everything)</p>

<p>Match:
-Johns Hopkins
-UCLA
-UC Berkeley</p>

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<p>Boston U and GW are your safeties, right? Should be fine. Can you afford these schools- all of them are expensive. Do you have any safeties in Canada?</p>

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<p>Yes, Boston U and GW are my safeties. </p>

<p>All I am worried about is the scholarship or grant money. I don't know if I will get any considering that my family is quite well-off. I really need the scholarship b/c even though my family is well-off, my parents are not willing to pay SO much for undergrad. But I REALLY REALLY want to go to the U.S. for undergrad (as well as grad) so I MUST get some scholarship.</p>

<p>I definitely have safeties here in Canada (my parents are willing to pay for any school in Canada).</p>

<p>So, do you think if I get into these schools, I will be offered scholarship or any sort of support?</p>

<p>Thanks again.</p>

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<p>ihateCA: Lol, thanks for reassuring me. I would think UCLA and UCB will be my matched too but people tell me that they are very competitive for out-of-staters, especially internationals. So I don't know.</p>

<p>Harvard, MIT and Caltech are not for me. They are simply too competitve and I really dislike the general atomasphere there. My friend, who goes to MIT says she hates it there because it's work, work and work all the way. </p>

<p>Johns Hopkins sound okay. I will add that to my potential list.</p>

<p>Thanks again!</p>