Texan looking to go North

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey guys. I'm a senior in high school and I have a pretty wide variety of colleges I want to goto (mainly in the North, preferably MA). So if ya'll could help me out that would be great :)</p>

<p>Senior in Texas High School
Asian Male
Major: Computer Science or Applied Mathematics
Weighted GPA: 4.6
Unweighted GPA: 3.7
Class Rank - 62/1165 (5.3%) :(</p>

<p>AP Scores:
Computer Science AP I - 4
Computer Science AP II - 5
English II AP - 4
US History AP - 4</p>

<p>SAT - 2120
ACT - 31</p>

<p>EC:
- Key Club all 4 years (100 hours total)
- French Club 3 years, Vice junior year & Pres senior year
- Math (Algebra, Pre-Cal) tutoring, CS tutoring</p>

<p>Schools (in order):
UMass Amherst
MIT
Northwestern
Rice University
UMinn TC
UPenn
UT Austin
BU</p>

<p>I am really only interested in colleges in New England. I wouldn't mind going to a Texas school or one in Minnesota though. UPenn I just thought I could add :p</p>

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<p>Rice, MIT, Northwestern are huge reaches (well not huge, but your unweighted GPA is pretty bad for them). Mass Am should be easy to get into for you, as should BU. I don’t know anything about the other schools.</p>

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<p>Thanks. I think I can get into UT because of the top 10% automatic acceptance. Every class I’ve taken has been basically honors, so I think the weighting makes me look smarter than I really am. In fact I’ve never even made an A in history.</p>

<p>I used to really want to goto Rice because it’s right downtown, 1 hour away, but I got turned off. I know college is for academics but everybody I know who goes there tells me about how… unattractive the girls are.</p>

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<p>LMAO! You certainly have your priorities in order. </p>

<p>UMinn, UMass, UT Austin, and BU look to be matches for you… certainly do-able.</p>

<p>Rice, MIT, and Northwestern are major reaches. Your test scores and rank are great. EC’s and UW GPA… not so much.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I didn’t really do any EC’s until sophmore year and even then I wasn’t too involved. And my unweighted is… blah.
Thanks for the help.</p>

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<p>I would suggest doing a campus visit to Rice since it’s in your backyard. You might be surprised. Regardless you’ll come away with a better feel of what you want/don’t want in a college. And all it costs you is a few gallons of gas and half a day or so :)</p>

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<p>Wait, the girls at Rice are ‘unattractive’?</p>

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<p>I’ve actually only been to the Rice campus once. It’s really small and not exciting at all.
But I do want a college that isn’t as big as UT, yet not as small as Rice. At Rice it would seem you would always see the same people over and over, and at UT it’d be hard to find your friends everywhere with so many kids.</p>

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<p>Have you taken three SAT IIs for UPenn and MIT yet? Those scores are an important consideration too.</p>