<p>^ The more important questions at this point are:
- what is an appropriate financing strategy for you (one emphasizing need-based aid, one emphasizing merit aid, or one emphasizing a low sticker price)?
- what kind of school are you looking for (with respect to size, location, atmosphere, etc.)?</p>
<p>Your stats alone aren’t a very good basis for differentiating the kinds of schools I listed. They aren’t strong enough to ensure admission to the crap-shoot schools (almost nobody’s are), but they aren’t so weak that they’d necessarily keep you out. However … your class rank, and the fact that you only pursued IB through freshman year, might make the most selective universities (Caltech, MIT, Brown, Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, and UPenn) very unlikely. </p>
<p>I suggest you consider Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Rice, USC, and Vanderbilt (assuming you can cover the EFC at these schools). These are all reaches. For target schools, consider the LACs I mentioned (Grinnell, Macalester, Oberlin). As a safety, add UC Boulder (if the NPC indicates it is affordable) or a less selective school that guarantees a large merit scholarship for your stats.</p>