SAT: 1300 (will retake)
GPA: 3.78
Rank: 16/187 (well within top 10%)
Sr Year Courseload:
APs: Physics 1, Lit, Spanish, Psychology
ECs
- JV basketball/club basketball (went to US Jr Nationals with my club team)
- JV Soccer
- Track and Field
- Speech and Debate (broke a few times)
- Editor of Neuroscience website
- Tutor- tutored kids K-6 in math and English over the summer
- President of Environmental Club
- EMT (will get certified soon)
- Hospital and Library Volunteer
- Performing Arts Company
- Physician Shadowing
Major: Nursing or engineering and communications(end goal med school)
Awards
- NHS
- Spanish Honor Soc
- Biology Award
- Chemistry Award
- National Spanish exam honorable mention for 2 years
Schools:
UPENN Nursing (oof)
Rice (oof)
Hopkins (might ED but still an oof)
U Miami
UT Austin and Dallas
TCNJ
Rutgers NB
Penn State
Nova Southeastern
USF
Texas A&M
Baylor
I think you have a nice balance between target schools and reaches. Seems like you are aware that UPenn, Rice, and Hopkins are reaches, but I think you have a good shot at all the others. Your GPA (assuming unweighted) and SAT are a bit lacking, but perhaps your extracurriculars, good essay, recs, and shown interest will boost you.
The biggest problem isn’t getting rejected. It’s getting accepted into a school you can’t afford. Let’s assume you live in Texas. If we take out the OOS and private schools, you have UT, A&M, and UT-Dallas as realistic affordable schools. UT is 50/50 at best, but you’re an auto-admit for Texas A&M(if you live in Texas) and UT-Dallas.
That doesn’t guarantee getting into your major. If you decide that you don’t want to go to medical school, UT-Dallas is the only one on the list that doesn’t have a hyper-competitive engineering major. If you don’t get into UT or A&M engineering when you’re a freshman, it’s nearly impossible to get in from the outside.
This is all assuming you live in Texas. If you don’t live in Texas, you’ll need to completely re-do your list. Make sure the school is affordable and flexible enough so you can change your major without having to lose credits and spend $$ transferring schools.
a 3.78 and 1300 are slacking? 
No, I’m not saying that 
I’m only saying that UT is a match, rather than a safety. Even Texas A&M, as an auto-admit, still doesn’t guarantee the major you want, or the flexibility you want to change majors. Keep some back-up options. Univ. of Houston, for example.
Not slacking but for Penn, Rice and Hopkins they are very low stats, especially the SAT.
yeah i’m just applying to them for the hell of it to see what happens
Have you thought about which college would “fit” you? Hopkins is a very research oriented institute. I mean they have a lot of other other non-research related stuff too, just asking whether you thought about this.