<p>I am a high school senior, mostly homeschooled with 4 college classes and an environmental semester school experience.
I will be taking 10 more (hard science) classes at local college for my senior year.
Stats:
IOWA Test 90+%
SAT --I took it once "cold turkey" and got 1660--planning to retake Oct., Nov. December and pull way up
GPA 3.5
Volunteered over 150 hours
Homeschool Honors Society
Latino/Hispanic
I am doing my senior research project on bees</p>
<p>I want to major in chemistry or biology (hard sciences) with an emphasis on the environment.</p>
<p>I visited Johns Hopkins this summer and it is my dream school.
I am also looking at Univ. of Rochester, Middlebury, New College of Florida and Oberlin.</p>
<p>I want to be at a school with a very solid science program. I don't care about Greek or party scene. I lean more Liberal but its not a requirement. I live in Florida but want to be in the Northeast. I love the cold and the outdoors.</p>
<p>Hopkins, definitely. Apply there ED.
From what I understand, SAT performance is much lower for home-schooled students. If nothing else, show them in your essays that you are passionate about learning. That’ll be the factor that gets you in.
I think you have a solid chance at Hopkins.
If you’re at all interested in marine biology, check out Florida State.
Maybe apply to MIT early action? I don’t think you’ll get in there but they’re non-restrictive and if you do get in, great!
The other colleges you mentioned all have great science programmes, though really you should choose a school based on whether or not you like it, overall.</p>
<p>I am hesitant to apply ED bc I want to get my SAT’s up. Thanks for the encouragement.
MIT would be the bomb but I never felt great about math–although I enjoy math but I haven’t scored super high in past. I do love science, though. These are the schools I am thinking about:
Bates College
Bowdoin College
Case Western Reserve University
Colby College
Goucher College
Grinnell College
Hamilton College
Johns Hopkins University
Middlebury College
New College of Florida
Oberlin College
University of Rochester
University of Virginia
Wesleyan University</p>