<p>hey guys
i'm here to ask some advice/getting myself a reality check.. um</p>
<p>as for brief stats
4.66w gpa (most rigorous courseload) </p>
<p>2250 SAT .. 690 CR 760 M 800 W
^- i had a bit of a blip on my first try of SATs and i'm retaking this october and i am confident that I will get at least mid 700s for the CR section (what I usually get on practice tests)</p>
<p>ECs..
they can be categorized into "doing" theology (reading famous texts during the bulk of my week and writing about them), which convicts me to do a LOT of community service and i did a project to raise around $7000 dollars among many others, and i've done a fair share of journalism work--had an internship for 6 months at a local newspaper and actually had the opportunity to get quite a few of my articles/op-ed articles published.</p>
<p>i don't know maybe i'm totally wrong but i guess theology is sort of a unique EC? </p>
<p>recs/essays
i will have very strong recs and essays (as i like writing)</p>
<p>well first off. i'm applying to umich early response, can i get in there? (OOS)
for early, (haha) i was gonna do cornell initially then had this brief stint of falling in love with bucolic LACS but i sorta realized my personality doesn't fit in with that .. so .. dun dun dun.. i like how Yale is SCEA and it's not binding.
i guess i'm asking if i should shoot for the stars haha! if i have absolutely zip chance, i probably won't bother. by the way, i'm a senior. </p>
<p>other schools i've looked at so far ..
dartmouth
brown
harvard
princeton
cornell
boston college
umich
still possibly amherst/williams (a step lower-middlebury,colby [i would qualify as an urm at midd and colby)</p>
<p>mm i guess i don't have a lot of matches, any suggestions? if you've read this far, thanks so much for reading my extremely convoluted thoughts</p>