Reach/Match/Safety Question - suggestions for schools to apply

College Search & Selection
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DD is a junior. Stats below. She falls in the Auto Admit for UT Austin and will happily attend there. Financial Aid is an issue but we can afford instate with our EFC. Other schools will be aid dependent.

WGPA/UWGPA 5.0/4/0
SAT 1490 (English 760 Math 730) will take again
SAT Subject Tests - will take in May

Classes Taken
Pre HS - Alegebra I/II, US History, Economics, Latin 1

Core Courses (school only allows 2 APs before Junior Year)

Freshman
Pre-AP English I
Pre-AP Biology
Pre-AP World Geography (AP Human Geo - 5)
Pre-AP Geometry
Pre-AP Latin II

Sophomore
Pre-AP English II
AP Chemistry (AP Exam 4)
AP World History (AP Exam 5)
Pre-AP Pre-Calculus
Pre-AP Latin III
Pre-AP French I

Jr - currently taking
AP English III (Language) - will take AP
AP Calculus AB - will take AP
AP Government - will take AP
AP Psychology - will take AP
AP Latin - will take AP
AP Physics I (UT direct Credit - no exam)
Pre-AP French II

Sr Year - will take next year
AP English IV (Literature) - will take AP
AP Calculus BC - will take AP
AP Statistics - will take AP
AP Biology - will take AP
AP Physics C - will take AP
AP European History - will take AP
AP Art History

ECs- has plenty some in interests and a good bit in her expected major. Has a few leadership roles. She’s a good writer so I expect her essay will be fine.

Since her auto admit makes UT Austin her safety, we are trying to put together a good list of matches and reaches. She’s looking hard at JHU and is also interested in Columbia, Yale, Stanford and UPenn, but they feel like serious reaches with little chance of getting in. So we really need some suggestions that we might not even know about…

Any suggestions for top schools in Psychology, Neuroscience, Neurolinguistics?

She doesn’t care so much about size, but would prefer an urban location, with a good music scene as she is also a singer.

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University of Rochester

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Thanks we will look into it…

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Have heard great things about the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program at Wash U. (St. Louis) http://pnp.artsci.wustl.edu

A friend of my daughter’s was just admitted to this program and will start in the fall.

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@SATXMom2 may I make one small suggestion?
there is NO reason for her to take AP stats her Sr year, as taking 6 tough, demanding AP classes is MORE than enough. She would be better off having a free period to be able to do college applications, [which is like having a VERY time consuming part time job during the first semester of Sr year] , homework, sleeping, eating, or just catching her breathe.
NO college is going to look down their nose at her for " only" taking 14[!!!] AP classes. The MOST elite colleges, including Stanford , have repeatedly stated that 6-7 AP classes in HS is MORE than enough.

As far as suggested colleges, she should add USC [ Southern Calif] to her list, as long as she applies NO LATER THAN DEC 1, in order to be in the running to be selected for consideration for a 1/2 or full tuition scholarship.
Did she take the PSAT this year and if so, did she score above Texas’s cutoff #?

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@menloparkmom Thanks for the suggestion. I will definitely suggest it to DD.

As for AP Stats or taking 14 APs for that matter, she actually wants to take the class. I will make the suggestion though because i agree with you. (And she might consider it cause its not coming from me, lol)

I think it would be good to have a free period to work on essays, etc. She has a couple of teachers who would also happily let her be their aid and tutor kids in their classes.