<p>I am in the process of creating a working list of schools to apply to. I have considered my college options since sophomore year, and now that I am an incoming senior, I believe I have built together a list of working colleges that I am interested in from a few years of research. </p>
<p>I would, however, like to extend this to the audience of CC, to suggest a few more potential colleges I can add on. I am primarily interested in a biochemistry/biology major. </p>
<p>Higher reaches
Yale University
Harvard University</p>
<h2>Stanford University</h2>
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<p>Lower reaches
University of Pennsylvania
Duke University
Rice University</p>
<h2>Cornell University </h2>
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<p>Lower safeties
University of Texas at Austin</p>
<h2>Baylor University </h2>
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<p>I have researched this list for a while, been to most of the campuses, and analyzed previous student's acceptances from my school. I am fortunate enough to go to a very competitive public high school that sends a great amount of its students to very selective universities. </p>
<p>I know I have not posted my stats or anything, but I would like the CC community to suggest me a few more colleges in the respected slots, for me to widen my options, primarily with a focus on biology/biochemistry if possible. My GPA is (3.9+), and my course load for the last two years is basically taken at a local university. </p>
<p>I would like to have a working list of 20 colleges, then I can considering my final list of schools to apply to.</p>
<p>M.ight look at Tufts and Holy Cross both in the Boston area. Holy Cross(don’t have to be religious) has a new $70 million science building. HC is also need blind for financial aid.</p>
<p>UC Berkeley
UC San Diego
Cornell
Stanford
Johns Hopkins
MIT
Yale
UCLA
Caltech
Princeton
Duke
U Michigan
Washington in st.louis
Boston University</p>
<p>Are you interested in liberal arts colleges?
Some of them also have bio/biochem departments</p>
<p>I’m a bit confused to how you consider Penn, Duke, and Cornell “low reaches?” Schools of that caliber are such a crapshoot that admissions is never guaranteed - no matter your stats. I just found that a bit arrogant. No, they are definitely not as hard to get into as Harvard and Stanford, but I don’t think you are giving enough respect to those schools.</p>
<p>Hopkins and Chicago sound good. U of Rochester, Boston University, and George Washington U may be good as easier to attain schools. How about Vanderbilt?</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies! Emory, U of Rochester, Boston University are interesting colleges I would like to consider now. (I had to eliminate some others, such as Caltech/MIT, UCs, Johns Hopkins, etc, due to location/other factors from family.) </p>
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<p>I understand what you may think, however, that was why I have placed them under the category, “lower reaches” as compared to the “higher reaches” such as Yale, Stanford, and Harvard. I am not saying these schools are low reaches by any means, they are often, as you mentioned, a reach for everyone. So therefore, what I had first, was the higher/lower reach category be only considered ‘reaches’. Then, I decided in splitting the two, so I can consider more schools to be added to each specific range. (Ex: more schools in the middle, lesser schools on top, etc.) But you are right in that it is not a match for anyone. Many applicants may have been accepted in Stanford/Yale/Harvard, but wait-listed/denied at Duke, Penn, etc.</p>