Reach, Safety and Match Suggestions? Where should I apply?

College Search & Selection
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<p>Class Rank: 1/73
Grade: Senior
Race: White
Region: Non-US
GPA: 4.0 UW
SAT: 2120: 680-790-650 (Reading-Math-Writing)
SATII: Physics: 780 ; Math II: 750 ; Math I: 800
APs: European History (5), World History (4), Statistics (5), Calc AB (5), Physics B (5), Psychology (5), APUSH (5), Spanish Lang (5)</p>

<p>Rigor: 8 AP's completed (3 more this year), Most non-ap's honors classes except for required credit classes. Definitely the most rigorous schedule possible at my school. Also dual-enrolled at a local american university in an advanced Calculus course</p>

<p>ECs:
Debate Club (10-12th, VP 11th and President 12th)
National Honors Society (11th-12th, Treasurer 11th, VP 12th)
Science Club (10th-12th, Founder and President 10th-12th)
Student Council (11th-12th, VP 12th)
APROJUSAN volunteer (80 hours at local organisation that aids in education of kids with low resources)
Techo Para Mi Pais volunteer (60 hours at an organisation that helps build shelter for people in the more remote areas of the country)
THIMUN (10th, 11th, 12th ; applying for and probable chair 12th)
300+ Total Volunteer Hours</p>

<p>I'm looking at technology oriented universities (i.e. engineering)</p>

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<p>How much can you afford? Are you looking for big schools? Small? </p>

<p>Big schools:
Cal-Berkeley
UIUC
UMich
UT-Austin</p>

<p>Medium:
Georgia Tech
Carnegie Mellon</p>

<p>Smaller schools:
Rose Hullman
Harvey Mudd</p>

<p>Safeties:
U of Minnesota
U of Washington
Iowa State
Michigan State
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)</p>

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<p>^ We don’t know if ANY of those schools are safeties because we don’t know what the OP can afford, particularly being from outside the US.</p>

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<p>Say around 50% of yearly tuition? 15-20k?</p>

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<p>Using one of the schools above as an example, if you are OOS for UC Berkeley then that will cost ~$50-55K/year. Run the Net Price Calculator on each web site of the schools listed.</p>