safety school help!!!! pleaseee

College Search & Selection
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<p>Can anyone suggest some safeties for me? I want a mid sized school with a campus feel & school spirit (so decent athletics would be nice). Im looking at USC but I want some other options. I want a socially bigger school but I tend to get overlooked in huge classes so I want to avoid huge lectures halls. Thanks!</p>

<p>Academics:
GPA: 3.7 UW, 4.1 W (However I go to a highly rated "feeder" school. We had 10 kids go to Stanford this year out of about 150, 4 to Harvard, 5 Princeton)
APs taken : World History (4), Computer Science (4), currently taking : Chem, Calc AB and US History.
Senior year I plan to take : AP Bio, AP Psych, AP Environ. Science, AP Stats, Madness in Literature, Adv. Journalism
My school doesn't rank.
Intended major: Im very interested in neuroscience or neurobiology. the biological basis of behavior. & ive done stuff involving this in highschool. </p>

<p>Standarized Tests:
PSAT - 223 (NMSF)
SAT - 800 R, 800 W, 720 M (2320)
SAT 2s - 750 Math II, will take chem this year</p>

<p>ECs:
Journalism: 3 years reporter -- written for multiple section in the award winning publication(Silver Crown award paper) & the online website (Gold Crown award). Sports editor next year. Got an honorable mention in a writing competition for the NSPA (national scholastic press association). may be published in a national magazine like fortune (co author)
4 years Varsity water polo (went to Junior Olympics summer before my freshman year & my team placed 9th overall)...probably gonna be a captain next year. got second team all league this year. (CA water polo is the best state for water polo in the nation fyi)
Red Cross : officer my soph & junior year. Organized basic aid classes to teach younger kids . on the youth executive board at the Red Cross chapter.
Hospital Volunteer - 150 hours so far. Junior Team Leader for Maternity ward.
WISTEM : 3 years member (women in science, technology, engineering & mathematics
7 years - kathak (indian classical dance) : I have performed multiple times
National Honor Society -- tutor kids, blog posts about honor</p>

<p>Summer:
last year I went to the slums of Costa Rica to provide aid to the Nicaraguan refugees. I was very passionate about the cause (& it will be one of my essays). I received the Presidents Volunteer Service Award for my efforts.
this year im interning under a professor in an university(ucsf) doing work involving patients with schizophrenia. </p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>Cost / financial aid / scholarship constraints are important in determining whether a school can be a safety. Your safety must be certainly affordable, as well as certain to admit you and otherwise suitable.</p>

<p>Biology tends to be a very popular major, so the lower division biology and chemistry courses are often among the larger courses at many colleges.</p>

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<p>if you are willing to travel out of state and are open to more than the usual suspects on college confidential than check out butler university and drake university, since you appear to like to travel out of the united states a smaller school that would be good with international studies would be macalster college!</p>