I’m a rising senior and I want to go to college either for engineering or business. I have SAT scores of 2100 (660 reading, 770 math, 670 writing) and 1450 (700 verbal, 750 math), have a GPA of 4.0 (weighted of 4.6) am guaranteed to be valedictorian of my class, am captain of my school’s cross country team (although I’m not very fast), and do 3 sports. However, I have few volunteer hours, don’t play an instrument, and my SAT scores are subpar for top schools.
I’m always amazed at the students who come on, tell us basic academic information, and then ask “where should I apply?” And even better, students on April 30 who list off pros and cons of a few schools and then say “tell me where to enroll.”
We don’t have enough info here to be helpful. Try the SuperMatch function on the left or the CollegeBoard’s similar tool.
Home state? How much can your parents pay/year $$ amount? Large or small school? Rural/Suburban/Urban? Want to stay in-state or go out of state?
Plug your stats into the SuperMatch feature on this website to give you some school ideas as a starting point. With over 4000 colleges in the US, you need to give posters some guidelines. Have you visited any schools yet? Which ones? Like or dislike?
You have excellent credentials but without a hook or legacy your odds at the very top schools remain pretty low. A 2100 is below the 50% percentile at every top school. The 1450 is hard to compare because it’s the new SAT. If you have the resources you should apply to a wide range of schools. Your best bet for a top school might be the LACs.
You have to decide what type of school you want. Like many other posters said, you should use the SuperMatch too. Or, alternatively, answer some questions to narrow your list- where do you want to be (city, suburbs or rural)? Where state-wise? Do you want to go international? Do you need financial aid? How many students? Research or LAC (although some LACs do certainly have LACs research universities are bigger, etc.)? What types of students do you want to be around? There are so many colleges in the US that it is hard for us to tell you where you should apply, especially with so few stats and no ideas of your preferences in terms of colleges.