What are Reach/Match/Safetys for me?

<p>Chinese Female from Public NY innercity school.. will need decent amount of fin. aid.
interested in pre-med or music.</p>

<p>SATS-
m 630
cr 520
w 560
(1710)
(i will retake in June)</p>

<p>will take SAT IIS in MAY</p>

<p>Rank: 20/450</p>

<p>Average: 3.7/4.0 w.</p>

<p>APS
Bio:5</p>

<p>Senior schedule:
AP US, AP CALC, English + other classes - most challenging course load. </p>

<p>National honor Society
Varsity Soccer Team (Grade 12)
currently working for (the south african embassy in finland)
planning on taking classes at NYU this summer
volunteer at a hospital next yr</p>

<p>Hook: im a musician, i'm in every single music program at my school.. which will make my resume much longer</p>

<p>expect my essay/recs to be good. </p>

<p>Please help me decide which schools I should cutt off this list?</p>

<p>wesleyan
barnard
boston college
tufts
sarah lawrence
hamilton college
hobart and william smith
vassar college
colgate u
bard college
union college
skidmore college
brandeis
smith college
mt holyoke
nyu</p>

<p>Er, you pluralize words that end in -y by changing it to -ies ("safeties").</p>

<p>I'm not so sure about those colleges. Perhaps others are.</p>

<p>It's difficult to distinguish your goal for your undergrad years from this profile. This list of colleges is too long. I see no passion or decision as to what you want to do at the schools on your list. Pre med and music are two completely different fields. Also pre med is too broad. There will be plenty of people who want to become internists. You should specialize in a less broad field, such as myology, cardiology, neuroscience, etc. in order to gain a more distinguished application. Also, your courseload should somewhat reflect your desired major at your undergrad school.</p>

<p>The GPA should be fine for the schools you're applying to. However, your SAT is a tad low.</p>

<p>Also for your senior year, there's no point in taking a challenging courseload for the sake of taking a challenging courseload. I've learned that it's important to challenge yourself in the area you're specializing yourself in. Based on your future plans, whether it be from african history to zoology, for your undergrad, correspond it to those challenging course at school. So if AP lit has nothing to do with your interests in undergrad, don't take it.</p>

<p>Focus on trying to get ahead of the game, and start covering a lot of information about the college you'd like to attend, why you'd like to attend it, and what you want to do there. If you want music, read plenty of books about it. If you want to go to pre med, find out the path you want to take.</p>

<p>There's nothing worse than that kid who did as well as they could in high school, without passion for their undergrad studies. Colleges do look for high GPAs and SATs, however, they'd hate to have a kid who's already been "burnt out" from their high school experience.</p>

<p>My overall advice: Increase your GPA, clearly indicate your passion, make your senior courseload at high school reflect that passion, and do extra research and activities to prepare yourself for the field/major you are most passionate in, remove about six schools from your list through careful research of those colleges (you don't have to narrow it down to 8 colleges, just make sure you have a maximum of 10, you are sure to get into at least 1).</p>

<p>Chances: I think it's difficult to distinguish you from other kids, so it's almost impossible to give accurate chances. If you clearly stated what you want from those schools, chances would be easier to approximate. However, I am sure you would not get rejected from all of those schools, you would definitely get accepted to at least 1.</p>

<p>"Increase your GPA, clearly indicate your passion, make your senior courseload at high school reflect that passion, and do extra research and activities to prepare yourself for the field/major you are most passionate in."</p>

<p>Very good advice, whether you're aiming high or low.</p>

<p>well first off i know the list is too long =[ sorry im not really confident about making it to a good school so i made a big list. i know my goals are a tab board but i really dont know what medical field to go into yet so im keeping things open. omfg i know my sat score is horrible but it was my first time and i didnt really study. the senior load is kind of w/e because i only really cared about taking ap bio and i already took it. thanks for your help<3. oh i also forgot to explain that my friend rewrote my info in a more "friendly format" so it's a little off. for example i wasnt going to major in music.</p>

<p>TOO MANY SCHOOLS ON THAT LIST..
there's no direction
for. ex.</p>

<p>NYU vs Mt. Holyoke?</p>

<p>cut off nyu and bc :D</p>