<p>I see everyone listing that they think such and such school is a reach and this other one is a match, etc., but I am not really sure about mine. I know it's after the fact, but I would be grateful if someone helped me figure this out.</p>
<p>Overview:
SAT: 1570
SAT IIs: 800 Writing, 790 US History, 760 Spanish
APs: 5s on all four exams taken so far</p>
<p>GPA: 4.0 Unweighted, 4.613 Weighted w/ honors getting 4.5 and AP getting 5
Rank: 1/465</p>
<p>Courseload: 9 APs, 11 Honors, 4 Community College, and 4 regular (non-honors) classes by graduation</p>
<p>Holistic Info (what I listed on apps)
-Shadowing doctors (~150 hours)
-Mu Alpha Theta - member (10th and 11th), President (12th)
-Student Government - Senator (10th), VP(11th), Senator (12th)
-Future Problem Solving (state level awards) (10th-12th)
-Model Student Senate - Best Democratic Portfolio (11th), Minority Whip (12th)
-Teen/Peer Court - Juror, Bailiff, Lawyer (7th-11th)
-Hospital Volunteer (9th-11th) (~75 hours)
-School Advisory Committee - only representative of Class of 05 (9th-12th)
-National Merit Semifinalist
-U of Rochester Social Sciences and Humanities Award
-Work ~10 hours per week at Old Navy</p>
<p>So, the schools I applied to are:
Duke
Emory (Scholars Program)
Washington and Lee (Honor Scholarship Thing)
U of Rochester (Early Medical Scholar Program)
U of Miami
Vanderbilt
Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>and I've already been accepted to:
UF
U of Alabama (Tuscaloosa)</p>
<p>Duke - Match/Slight Reach (im talking very slight)
Emory - Match
Washington and Lee - Match
U of R - unsure, med program?
U of Miami - Safety
Vanderbilt - Match/Safety
Johns Hopkins - Match</p>
<p>If you can still apply to Brown it fits your general profile of schools (in size) and it has a lot of freedom in curriculum to give you ability to do diverse things (like premed while majoring in a different area.)</p>
<p>However, don't feel bad about your list. It is very, very strong! Duke, JH, Emory etc are nothing to sneeze at <em>and</em> you may wind up with merit aid which you would not at an Ivy.</p>
<p>you <em>think</em> she'd have a shot at ivies?</p>
<p>She's the valedictorian and she has a bloody 1570! I think you're a +50% chance for every school on your list, and they're great schools, too. Hopkins is as good for science as any Ivy save maybe Princeton. I lurve Emory, too.</p>
<p>Yeah I would say the same thing, you have a chance anywhere as a validictorian...but you should apply where you want to go, not where you think is prestigious.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the responses! I know this is a gross generalization, but I don't really like the Ivies. I don't know if it is the result of visiting this board and seeing, somewhat depressingly, the fanatical obsession with those schools or just a (perhaps ill-guided) perception that many of those schools are replete with the "good ole' boys," but, either way, I decided early on in my application process that I wanted to stay away from such colleges (much to the chagrin of my parents). However trivial, weather also plays a big role for me, thus crossing off many of the Ivies established in the snow-filled states of the north. In fact, I was going to apply to Dartmouth but later decided not to because of the location. So, this factor crossed off Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, UPenn, Yale, and Princeton - all of the Ivies. (I applied to U of Rochester only because of a unique Early Medical Scholar program they offer and to JHU because I fell in love with it.)</p>
<p>Limited in my choices as such, I went through US News and looked at what colleges outside of the Ivy League and outside of the north are highly ranked and could offer me a stimulating undergrad. After coming up with this list, I researched all of the schools and chose to apply to those which seemed to be the best "fit" for me academically and socially. Like Samp0320 encouraged me to do, I find prestige to be a relatively moot factor, especially when considering the caliber of the schools that are outside of that coveted realm of the Ivy League. Although many on this board would most likely vehemently disagree, I find the difference in academics between institutions such as Harvard and Duke to be insignificant; a student can be assured of a challenging and all-around amazing academic experience at either one. Even for schools farther down in the ranks such as Emory and U of Rochester, I believe that the scholar programs I applied to will provide an excellent, rivaling-the-Ivies four years.</p>
<p>Thank you all, again, for being so optimistic in your evaluations.</p>
<p>MIT = Just as cold as all the other ones.
Caltech + Stanford = I can't do west coast. (parents would like me to stay within their sphere of eastern predisposition)</p>
<p>You seem like a great person, the colleges should see that. Very well thought out choices. Not enough people choose the schools that are really right for them. It seems that all the top students are pressured to apply to the ivies simply because they think it's the natural thing to do. This is making them ridiculously competitive. In reality, the kind of education you would get at one of these schools compared to another top school is not very different. You will probably thrive at any of those colleges.</p>
<p>You should get into all of your respective schools, although duke is a bit of a crapshoot. With luck they will recognize what kind of person you are.</p>