<p>I am an Indian, and currently a junior at a large public high school in South Carolina. I have </p>
<p>1/505 rank in the class</p>
<p>2300 SAT(800 math, 740 CR, 760 W)</p>
<p>SAT II (Math IIc 800, Bio 790, Physics 800, US 770)</p>
<p>Total 14 AP's by the end of high school(12 5s and 2 4s in AP exams) so a National AP Scholar</p>
<p>Good ECs (math team, chess team, newspaper, National Beta Club, National Honors Society, Science National Honors Society, National Spanish Honors Society, Youth Action Council) I plan to have leadership positions in most, if not all of these clubs/committees, and won several awards for cancer research in 10th and 11th grade</p>
<p>Indian cultural dancing since childhood </p>
<p>Good essay</p>
<p>I plan to do biology/premed as my intended major. </p>
<p>What are my chances at Top 15 colleges?</p>
<p>I would really appreciate your genuine response. Thanks alot!</p>
<p>What do you consider the top 15? As you know the most selective schools are reaches for everyone, and premeds have tough competition. But you are way up there with your stats and are certainly in the race. Just make sure you have some good safeties in there too. It's easy to just grab the top schools off the list. Harder to do the research and get a good match that can fit your goals and that you will like.</p>
<p>Casey2009,
Thanks for your quick reply. and you are very true. </p>
<p>entomom,
thank you also. Well, I took 4 AP course by the end of my sophomore year, and scored 5s on all of them. Im taking 5 APs each in both my junior and senior year, and I am confident that I should be able to get 5s on all of them. I added the possible 4s since I cannot be completely sure. </p>
<p>cptofthehouse,
thanks a lot for you comments. I consider top 15 basically to be the top 15 nationally ranked colleges, according to U.S. News and World Report. I will definitely have regional colleges as my safeties, but most of the top schools are diverse in their offerings, especially in biology. But I will definitely do research when I certain of my major.</p>
<p>So are you just going down the list of the top 15 as in the last US News mag or are you going to consider any of the LAC as well? There is a big difference among some of those schools in terms of biology offerings as you know.</p>
<p>Sometimes people apply to colleges for the prestige, and in my opinion there truly isnt anything wrong with that. I often see people on this site complain when a person has two extremely different colleges on their prospective list (ie Dartmouth (rural) vs Columbia (urban)). For me, the most appealing colleges are the ones where I will be able to interact with a capable, diverse group of peers. Obviously, one could argue that there are so many schools out there that could provide such circumstances; however, in general the strength of the accepted class of a university is correlated with its rank on the U.S News rankings (with exceptions obviously).</p>
<p>I don't think your reason is that horrible, but I think that is plain not using the brain just to go down the list of the top 15 during a given year. I think MIT is very different from UVA, and you just might want to go a bit further down the list if you are looking for some qualities in a school other than happening to be on a particular list.</p>