Too many reaches??

College Search & Selection
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<p>This is my current college list:</p>

<p>Cornell
Brown
Columbia
Barnard
Dartmouth
Wash U
Northwestern
Tufts
BC
NYU
U mass
Case Western Reserve</p>

<p>Do I have too many reaches? I don't know what are some good-matches for me... Any suggestions? Also, do you think I should apply early? (I was thinking of applying to either Cornell or Columbia early, but I'm not sure yet)</p>

<p>My stats are:</p>

<p>SAT Verbal 630, Math 790 Writing 670. My English scores are not strong at all, although English is not my first language. (I don't know how much that will count though) I will be retaking the test, and I hope I will get better scores.</p>

<p>Two 800 on SAT II. Lowest is 740. Unweighted GPA: 3.98, weighted 4.45.</p>

<p>Lived in other 2 countries, know Chinese and Japanese. Lived in the U.S. for 4 years.</p>

<p>Not many AP classes; I've only taken 3. Got 5 on all 3 of them. Also, I haven't taken as many honors classes as my school has to offer. (All my friends have taken like 15.) I've only taken 5 in fact. But I'm taking more next year, with 4 AP classes and 1 honor.</p>

<p>3 A+ in Junior year, one in AP chem, one in Hon pre-cal, and one in Lv1 French 1 (just starting French). School is public, but pretty competitive in the area. Each year, about 5 to 10 out of 400 students get into Harvard.</p>

<p>Some community service, but not much leadership. No sports, no music:</p>

<p>2 years of TA at local Chinese school (including award for good service; going into my 3rd year)
hospital aid and office aid at an hospital (2 years; including award for good service)
Volunteer at Children's summer program (only this summer for a week)
4 years of Culture Club, going to be secretary in September
NHS - booksale, peer tutoring; Math team; Amnesty international
Certificate of Honor (?) on the National French Contest... one place from getting the bronze metal............... -_-
National Honor Roll; PSAT high scorer; Who's who among high school students; Who's who's scholarship semi-finalist; The national society of high school scholars (or something)
into arts, drawings were shown in BC, local art society, and Japanese newspaper (although all of those drawings were never given back to me and I can't make a portfolio out of them.........) drawing was used as cover of Student Directory
Work experience: babysitting, tutoring (not much though)</p>

<p>Not very good at writing... </p>

<p>I used to play the flute and French horn, but I was never in the band or anything... so I guess I can't really put that onto my resume... >.<;;;...</p>

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<p>Asian with a 1420 makes many of your schools big reaches. Though you have 4 schools where you should be in so your list is fine if you'd be happy at the lower schools and they are financial safeties (most gap) too. Much better chance of Cornell ED, but it's still a reach. I might ED Northwestern.</p>

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<p>bobby, what do you mean by the most gap?</p>

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<p>Are you a US citizen, or applying as an international? Are you worried about financing tuition? Some good match schools for you are U of Rochester, Rice, Vanderbilt, Brandeis, Rensselaer, Carnegie Mellon. You should look at U of Chicago and Johns Hopkins, too. It seems as if you are not interested in liberal arts colleges.</p>