Urgent: Help Me Find Safeties...fast!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi all,
I have applied to 6 schools:
Northwestern
Brown
Cornell
UVA
Vtech
William and Mary
I'm worried that out of a fluke I might not get into my safety, vtech, and all the others are matches/reaches. I'm an instate applicant, and here are some of my stats. PLEASE help me find more safeties that are still open for applications, preferably till around the 15th. I have plenty of essays/stuff all done so filling out another app or two wouldn't be to difficult. Anyway, please HELPPPP. Female interested in Biomedical engineering/neuroscience, but not premed.</p>

<p>NorthernVA
SAT: 2090: Math: 690, Verbal: 730, Writing: 670
SATII: MathIIc:740, USHist:730, Bio: 650 (retaking the 28th, didnt study.. whoops.)
GPA: 4.0uw/4.2w
Rank: 2 or 3/ 480 based on weighted rank., so top 1%
AP: World Hist:5, USHist:5, Psych: 5, EngLang:5, Spanish:4 (dang it.)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
-Varsity Cross Country all 4 years; Co-Captain (12)
-Varsity Winter Track/ Spring Track all 4 years; Distance Captain (12), Winter Track Manager (11), Varsity Pole Vaulter (9, 10, 11)
-National Honor Society; Community Service Representative
-Classical and Jazz Saxophone-in top school bands, All-District Jazz (12)
-Girl Scouts; Alternate Delegate to Girl Scout Council, Gold Award(!), Silver Trefoil... etc.
-Tutoring: Spanish, Math Science
-Spanish Honor Society
-Ocean Science Bowl Team; Co-captain (12), 3rd team in region
-Tri- M Musical Honor Society; Vice President (12)</p>

<p>Lots of community service, girl scouts, coordinator of projects, i dont want to bore you with a list, and im sure almost everyone has at least some service. </p>

<p>Extras:
8wk summer internship at Naval Research Lab in wash. DC (SEAP)-quantum mechanics and electrical engineering
In 3 out of school jazz groups, local gigs in the area.
Fall Female Scholar Athlete (given to 1 girl in school)
2nd in state science fair(11)
1st in regionalscience fair(10,11)
1st in school sci. fair (9, 10, 11)
washingtonpost top achiever 9, 10, 11, 12
Published Author (for constitutional essay for my gov class... published book this spring- last years is on amazon. com )
optimist international service award</p>

<p>Current classes:
AP music theory
AP govt
AP biology
AP english lit
AP calc BC
jazz</p>

<p>recs: 2 teachers, awesome 1, didnt read the other, but from my calc teacher whos had me for precal too and he likes me a lot
counselor: awesome
1 from swarthmore professor who i worked with over the summer</p>

<p>I HAVE A STRONG DESIRE TO GET OUT OF VA PLEASE SOMEONE HELPPPP</p>

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<p>Apply to Case Western - very strong biomed engineering department. Application due 1/15.</p>

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<p>Why are you worried about VTech?</p>

<p>Your definitely in</p>

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<p>You're in-state, so you're probably in at UVA and W&M. Forget Brown. Northwestern and Cornell are both reaches, but you're in the ball park with both. 40-60 chance with both. </p>

<p>If you're looking for good schools with Jan 15 deadlines that will probably accept you, here's three: Brandeis, NYU, and George Washington. Also, U of Michigan has rolling admissions through Feb 1. Don't know if they have the progam you're looking for, though.</p>

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<p>Yeah, unfortunately
NYU- only has general engineering, it's not really a strong point of theirs as far as I can tell.
Brandeis- no engineering at all
George Washington- 20 minutes from my house, No.
U Michigan- ginormous and expensive state school... probably the same rate of getting in instate UVA as out of state Mich.</p>

<p>any more ideas are still appreciated!!</p>

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<p>well.. it's no safety, but it's another chance at least . I've researched more about Michigan and I actually really like it... so I'm going to apply. thanks!</p>

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<p>Go for it. Median M+V at Michigan is 1305. 75th percentile is 1410. With your M+V at 1420, strong SATIIs, strong APs, great class rank, and good ECs, you should get in. 62% of 21,293 applicants were admitted last year. 47% of those admitted enrolled. 36% were from out of state.</p>

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<p>if you're <em>really</em> scared, i'd say apply for GMU or VCU, just in case. but it looks like you're gonna get into vatech at the very least!</p>