<p>Very Huge Reach:
Yale
Princeton</p>
<p>Reach:
Amherst
Williams
Dartmouth
University of Chicago
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (OOS)
University of Maryland<br>
Wash&Lee</p>
<p>highschooler09, thanks, but I'm no longer applying to UMich. The folks aren't allowing me to go that far, plus I really wasn't interested in attending it in the first place; a family friend told me to go there, but I'm really not the Michigan guy. Plus, your list looks awfully familiar to one of the other posts, excluding maybe one or two schools. Everything was in the same order, and the like. Weird, eh? Or just intense deja vu?</p>
<p>Quite a friendly bump, wouldn't you agree? I am doing so in order to have the people who have currently looked at this to help me out more. Bollocks to these chance threads.</p>
<p>Yet another friendly bump. I encourage that the people who have read this thread and replied to it can evaluate the following colleges. I have looked at these schools in the last week and will look at the rest of the list sooner this week. Considering my grades, standardized testing, and the like, which of the following could be considered my matches, reaches, and potential safeties? I am expecting the same answers for some of these colleges, just as before. Those with an asterisk are colleges I am really looking at and want to attend.</p>
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Middlebury
Dartmouth*
U of Vermont*
Bowdoin
Fordham
Skidmore*
Providence
Brown
Amherst*
BC*
BU
Bucknell
Gettysburg
Fairfield
Villanova
Loyola of Maryland*
Washington and Lee
U of Richmond*
Catholic*
U of Chicago
Saint Joe's of Maine
Colgate*
Holy Cross
Trinity College
Georgetown*
U of Maryland*
UMBC
Rutgers[/ul]</p>
<p>Furthermore, I know that this isn't the appropriate thread, but I have already posted this elsewhere, and since this forum is more popular and many members view this forum, I guess copy-pasting wouldn't be such a bad idea. It wouldn't hurt to try, right? Besides, I did mention in the thread title that this is also a "Cry for Help" thread in that this is also a college admissions guidance thread. Here we go:</p>
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<p>AP Chemistry (taking), AP English Literature and Composition (taking), AP English Language and Composition (took, 4), AP Calculus AB and BC (took AB, 3; taking BC); AP Spanish Language (taking), AP Environmental Science (wanting to take), AP Biology, AP Statistics, AP Microeconomics, AP Macroeconomics (the teacher is decent, but students normally get 3s on the exam; he doesn't prep them enough, but all students do get As in that class), AP Studio Art (not into that, nor artistically gifted), AP Music Theory (again, no), AP Human Geography (offered to freshmen classes only), AP U.S. History (I wanted to take it, but it was tooooo much and my knowledge of history is not too extensive. I dropped out due to its difficulty; Junior Year course), AP World History (sophomore course), AP Modern European History (the same applies to these subjects, as well), AP Latin Vergil, AP Latin Literature (I've never taken Latin and I don't wish to learn it at all, I'm afraid), AP Italian Language, and AP French Language (again, no).</p>
<p>I was thinking of taking AP Environmental and AP Biology as self-studies. The AP Biology teacher at my school is also the AP Environmental Science teacher, and my old Physical Science teacher taught AP Bio before he did, so I have some good mentors. I have a copy of the textbook that they are currently using, along with a copy of "Biology for Dummies" that was available at my school's bookstore for 50 cents (I kid you not). It wasn't a prep book; the teachers made a mistake, so they charge students only 50 cents for it. And it was in perfect condition: huzzah. My courseload consists of four APs; an Honors, college-level humanities course; another Honors course that is high-school leveled, and a College Prep course taught by an AP teacher, so you can expect that the level of difficulty will be equivalent to that of his course. The only problem is that I am worried I will overload myself, what with my many clubs and activities, theatre performances, and boosting up my standardized testing scores to greater heights (150+ SAT, 4+ composite ACT), as well as the college application process itself. Should I at least take one of these as a self/independent study? Or should I just abandon it altogether and just focus on my four current APs?
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<p>Thanks for the help in advance. I really need the guidance before school starts.</p>
<p>I think to gauge your chances based on stats you can look at each of the websites of the colleges. They usually have the 50-75 percentile and you can see where you stack up.</p>
<p>All right. Do you have anything to say about the AP stuff, however, Dbate?</p>
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Oh, I've done that, but the thing is that there are so many prep books out there and some are better than others. I mean, there are six prep books for one exam, each one supposedly better than the next. Even when preparing for the AP English and Calc AB exams, my teachers have said to use "X," not use "Y," and consider using "Z."
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<p>So then why overthink it? Either you fundamentally know the material, or you don't. It's not as though one set of AP prep books contains fairy dust that grants you 5's and another set of AP prep books dumb you down. Really, just pick based on what someone else suggests or what looks most appealing to you in the bookstore, and move on already.</p>
<p>hmmm sat scores are kinda low for ivies</p>
<p>I'm not taking the SATs anymore, just the ACTs.</p>