<p>Hey guys, I will be a senior next year and I've just started seriously looking into colleges. </p>
<p>Basics:
-Asian female
-CA, public school
-GPA: about a 4.3 W (my school counts electives)
-SAT: (highest composite) M/780 V/800 W/770 (total: 2350)
-SAT 2: Math 2C/800, Chem/780, US/750, Bio/740
-AP's taken: Euro (5), Chem (4), US, Bio, Music Theory, Lang
-AP's next year: Gov, Physics, Lit, Stats</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
-Marching band 4 years, section leader
-Orchestra 3 years, All Southern
-Varsity Golf
-CSF officer all 4 years, president next year
-NHS 3 years, officer for 2
-Amnesty International vice-president and co-founder
-Yearbook Senior Editor
-Link Crew
-Prom Committee
-School academic awards in English
-Poetry Contest 1st place
-Volunteer at animal shelter, 200+ hours, trains new volunteers</p>
<p>I will be going to EGPY at Stanford later this summer =] Not very prestigious, but I think it'll be fun.</p>
<p>List: (first draft)
American U
Amherst
UCLA, Berkeley, San Diego
USC
Cornell
Dartmouth
Colgate
Duke
Northwestern
Rice
Stanford (very reach-y. but i'm thinking of applying EA. opinions?)
Tufts
Vanderbilt
Williams
UVA
Middlebury
Whitman
Yale</p>
<p>Phew. Sorry for the length. I'm not exactly sure of my major but I'm leanings towards business and psych. Please help me whittle the list down or suggest other schools. Thanks for your opinions =]</p>
<p>weighted GPA means nothing without unweighted GPA and rank. what's your rank? unweighted GPA?</p>
<p>good test scores. good ECs. stanford and yale = reject. in at all others</p>
<p>sorry about that. UW: about 3.96 and my school doesn't do rankings but I'm fairly certain I'm top 1%. And my PSAT score is 232 if that helps.</p>
<p>American U: 100% In
Amherst: 60% In
UCLA: 80% In
Berkeley: 80% In
San Diego: 85% In
USC: 100% In
Cornell: 65% In
Dartmouth: 55% In
Colgate: 90% In
Duke: 60% In
Northwestern: 70% In
Rice: 75% In
Stanford: 30% In
Tufts: 85% In
Vanderbilt: 85% In
Williams: 60% In
UVA: 90% In
Middlebury: 85% In
Whitman: 100% In
Yale: 30% In</p>
<p>You don't need so many safeties/ safe matches. If anything eliminate a few in that category and add more reaches (Harvard, Princeton) and slight reaches (maybe Brown, Duke, etc)</p>
<p>You have such a strong chance at the top UCs, I think you can drop schools like American if you would choose a UC over them. You have excellent stats for any school but in the extremely competitive pool of CA Asian applicants, the ivies see many, many students with these stats. A lot will fall to your recs, ECs and strength of application. In such a crowded pool, I'd take a chance on really unique essays.</p>
<p>thanks. any more input?</p>
<p>Come on slipper! Get real. You really think that she has better chance of getting into Middlebury (85%) than UC Berkeley (80%) and UCLA (80%), not to mention an equal chance at UC San Diego (85%)!?!? She's from California and is ranked near the top of her class.</p>
<p>The ECs are decent and the stats are extremely great. You are basically in at all the UCs. </p>
<p>60-100% chance at:
American U 100%
Amherst 80%
UCLA, Berkeley, San Diego 100%
USC 80%
Cornell 70%
Dartmouth 65%
Colgate 80%
Duke 70%
Northwestern 70%
Rice 70%
Tufts 80%
Vanderbilt 80%
Williams 80%
UVA 75%
Middlebury 70%
Whitman-100%</p>
<p>50% chance of acceptance at:
Stanford
Yale</p>
<p>I personally think you will be rejected at 1, tops 3 schools on your list. Don't apply EA to Stanford, cuz I will be doing so. :)</p>
<p>Please chance me,
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=361246%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=361246</a></p>
<p>looking dandy, Furai. Why not apply to Harvard as well? </p>
<p>I'm not against you at all, but I don't think that adcoms of such prestigious universities as Stanford and Yale would be very impressed with your 1st place in the Poetry contest if you described what it took to win it.</p>