Striving too high?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi there! I'm a junior and I'm planning for college. I made my realistic college list a little while ago and was wondering if you guys think it's realistic. I'm hoping to go into Biomedical Engineering. Here's where I'm hoping to apply:</p>

<p>Cornell
Carnegie Mellon
UMich
UCSD<br>
Georgia Tech<br>
BU
Northeastern
Lehigh
UConn
UMass Amherst
Suffolk Univ </p>

<p>female, middle eastern white</p>

<p>(I'm putting my stats in as I plan on doing when I apply, so some things might be estimated, but they're realistic, I promise :) )</p>

<p>unweighted gpa: 3.6
weighted: ~4.2 - 4.4</p>

<p>I've taken everything honors and AP offered in 9th and 10th grade (english both yrs, bio, chem, world hist frosh yr, alg II, geometry, pre calc and latin) . This includes AP Euro and AP Bio in sophomore (4 and 3 respectively)</p>

<p>Junior yr course work: APUSH, AP Studio Art, honors latin 4, honors english, honors physics, Advanced CAD, honors calc</p>

<p>ACT estimated to be about a 32 (based on my practice tests)
I think I'm going to stick with the ACT rather than SAT</p>

<p>I'm taking SAT subject tests in US History, Math II, Bio, (and maybe physics depends how well i do this year)
hopefully it'll be above a 680 in all</p>

<p>I'll graduate having taken 9 or 10 APs (depends what I do out of school, might do environmental sci out of school this yr)</p>

<p>ECs in a nutshell
2 year of varsity basketball
7 years latin club, school 2nd VP and 1st VP sophomore and junior yr (hopefully president senior yr) & state latin club treasurer (junior yr)
3 yrs drama crew
2 years research internship for a genetics research lab
5 years ACYOA organization member
2 years speech and debate
2 years Women of Science</p>

<p>I'll hopefully have ~150 hours of community service.
I also have two jobs</p>

<p>Awards: national latin exam magna cum laude</p>

<p>If you guys could put what are ACTUALLY strive, match and reach schools for me, that'll be great! (based on my list.) Also, if you have any additional schools you think I should check out, lemme know! THANKS!</p>

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<p>I live in Ithaca and approximately 10-20% of our graduating seniors (at ithaca high school) attend cornell every year, and their resumes are nothing compared to yours. I suspect you’ll have no trouble getting into Cornell. </p>

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<p>It’s too hard to chance you without actual test scores, but I’ll make an estimate based on what you think you can get:
Cornell-Reach
Carnegie Mellon-Reach/Low Match
UMich-Match
UCSD-Match
Georgia Tech-Match
BU-Safety/Match
Northeastern-Safety/Match
Lehigh-High Match/Low Reach
UConn-Match
UMass Amherst-Match
Suffolk Univ-Safety/Match</p>

<p>Bring up that unweighted GPA it’s a little low for Cornell and Carnegie Mellon. Also, take Gooner10’s comment with a grain of salt. It can be easier for Ithaca people to get in for two reasons: 1. Proximity to Cornell makes Cornell slightly more likely to want to take the local kids 2. He doesn’t know if they applied to CALS of ILR, which are considered SUNY schools, and, therefore, are easier for New Yorkers to get into.</p>

<p>Chance me back: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1675633-chance-for-cornell-columbia-upenn-johns-hopkins-and-more-will-chance-back.html#latest”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1675633-chance-for-cornell-columbia-upenn-johns-hopkins-and-more-will-chance-back.html#latest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;