Schools I should consider?

College Search & Selection
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<p>I'm open to suggestions and I'm curious to see what other people's opinions are. </p>

<p>I'm a senior and I want to major in biochemistry, I plan on being "pre-med"
or maybe finance/economics for business or maybe med school.</p>

<p>My essays are really good and recommendations should be great.</p>

<p>I'm from California and I applied to
UC: UC Davis, UCSD, UCLA, and UC Berkeley
Cal States: Humboldt, Cal poly slo, cal poly pomona, and i think csulb</p>

<p>My GPA is low because I have 4 C's on my transcript (ugh) in Honors Algebra 2 (my sophomore year) and AP Physics C my junior year (which was a struggle since the class in my school has a strong calc emphasis and i was in pre-calc)</p>

<p>AP's: Euro, APUSH, Literature, Physics</p>

<p>Senior classes: AP Spanish, AP Comparative Politics, AP Lang, AP Chemistry, AP Calc AB, and AVID</p>

<p>My stats aren't extraordinary, but any advice is welcomed, thank you!</p>

<p>Student:
Gender: F
College Class Year: 2018
High School: Public
High School Type: sends some grads to top schools
Will apply for financial aid: Yes
Ethnicity: Hispanic, Latino (parents from Central America)</p>

<p>Academics:</p>

<p>GPA - Unweighted: 3.43
GPA - Weighted: 3.66</p>

<p>Scores:</p>

<p>ACT: 25 (retook on Saturday, expecting higher score)
SAT II Spanish: 740
SAT II Math 2: Just took it
SAT II Chemistry: Just took it
SAT II Lit: Just took it</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>Significant Extracurriculars:
Youth Mentor
Singing in church choir
Make a Wish Club
Friday Night Club (hanging with autistic children and teens)
OC Human Relations- Peer Mediation
Family Responsibilities</p>

<p>Leadership positions:
Hospital-Candy Striper(Committee Chairman&
Board Member)
Sectretary- Make a wish
Tech person- Fridy night club
Volunteer/Service Work: Tutor
Hospital-Candy Striper
OC Peer Court-Translator</p>

<p>Honors and Awards: AP Scholar
Principals Honor Roll(school)
Busy Bee(hospital)</p>

<p>Desired College Characteristics:</p>

<p>Area: East Coast & California</p>

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<p>muhlenberg college
<a href=“http://www.muhlenberg.edu/main/academics/health_professions/[/url]”>http://www.muhlenberg.edu/main/academics/health_professions/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I haven’t heard of it before, and i looked it up and saw that you said in another post that it was a great school. Did you go there?</p>

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<p>You should look into honors college at ASU/University of Arizona. My sister is attending ASU and loves it, but it all depends on what type of a person you are. Also, University of Oregon and University of Washington are good schools. I don’t know much about East Coast colleges, so this is all I could think of.</p>

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<p>Chem = go to the University of Washington. Great program and they have more research based funding than most other schools combined.</p>

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<p>Since you are looking for financial aid out of state public universities are unlikely to work.</p>

<p>You need an additional safety or two. My sense is that with your stats the colleges to which you’ve applied are for most part reaches. You probably have a safety/match with CSU Humboldt. Have you discussed with your college counselor?</p>

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<p>@Treyinator I’m looking at mostly schools on the east-ish coast or in California. I’m not a fan of the hot weather, and I honestly wouldn’t consider going to an out of state public because of the price </p>

<p>@CallMeADawg The app period is closed now, i’ve heard great things about it though</p>

<p>@Fogcity, I have talked to her but we talked more about my major, vs the schools. She told me that there was a chance that i would get into (USC) for example, but there was a chance of me not being accepted as a biochem major since others have taken ap chemistry already when i’m just doing it now, so my subject tests wont be as great as others.
She thinks my common app as a whole is great and that my essays are great too, though. I’m a really good writer (not trying to be vain),</p>

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<p>If you’ve been getting Cs in HS math and science, you may want to rethink your biochemistry/pre-med objectives (unless there has been a strong upward trend in those grades). </p>

<p>I agree with fogcity that if you require need-based FA, out-of-state public universities probably won’t work. Consider adding one or two less-selective schools in the UC system. If you’re interested in private out-of-state schools, check out liberal arts colleges ranked in the US News 25-75 range or so (Muhlenberg being one example). Many of these schools have decent need-based aid (meeting 90% or more of demonstrated need) and would be appropriate targets for your stats.</p>