What colleges should I apply to?

College Search & Selection
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<p>I'm really not sure where I should apply.</p>

<p>unweighted GPA: 3.6
weighted GPA: 4.2
SAT score: 2110
9th: 5 honors
10th: 6 honors, 1 AP
11th: 2 honors, 3 AP
12th: 4 AP, 1 honors</p>

<p>volunteering:
~hospital gift shop: 10th, 11th, 12th, every saturday
~museum: 10th summer
~bank: 10th once
~did some stuff for the charity club at my school
have 300+ hours</p>

<p>extracurriculars:
~ecology club: 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
~debate team 10th, 11th, 12th...won a few tournaments
~national honor society: vice president 11th, 12th
~science honor society 11th, 12th
~math honor society 11th, 12th
~dance for 10 years and participated in stage plays
~singing for 4 years
~engineering club
~biotech summer camp</p>

<p>awards:
~winner of regional vocab bee 3 times--got invited to nationals
~won first place for a singing contest twice
~published a story for teenink.com</p>

<p>~i'm also working on publishing a scientific paper--I interned at NIH, the summer of my junior year and did research.
~i organized a dance program for little kids, made money, and donated the money to charity.</p>

2

<p>What do you want to do with your life?</p>

<p>What do you want in a school?
Urban/Suburban/Rural?
Big/Medium/Small?
Liberal/Conservative?
Location?</p>

3

<p>Well, I honestly don't know, but I want to get an idea about where to apply based on my stats. Like, which colleges might accept me.</p>

4

<p>Well, there are hundreds of great schools that would accept you, but we need something to narrow it down. Even a major or a location preferrence would be a good start....</p>

5

<p>Okay, I'm thinking about majoring in electrical engineering. And probably somewhere in a city would be nice.</p>

6

<p>Carnegie Mellon
Georgia Tech
Johns Hopkins
Rice</p>

<p>Case Western as a safety. Maybe Drexel.</p>

7

<p>Thanks, that was helpful. I was also thinking about Cornell...would that be a reach? just wondering.</p>

8

<p>Cornell would be a reach, but you have a bump as a female engineer, so I think it's a realistic reach.</p>

<p>University of Rochester and Tufts would be other great choices for liberal arts + engineering.</p>

9

<p>Are you a Senior and just getting your list together now? Most deadlines are fast approaching.</p>

10

<p>Why not do a field trip? Visit the nearest small liberal arts college, large state university, city school, and engineering college. Once you figure out what type of education you want, it gets easier.</p>

11

<p>you're a complete loser snowgirl</p>

12

<p>wow that's mean....</p>

13

<p>Did you honestly bump this just to harrass the poor girl? </p>

<p>She's probably done with apps by now anyway...</p>

14

<p>My cousin was the saledvictorian at my HS with like a 98 average and an SAT of only 1800 and she got a full ride scholarship at Drexel. You might get that, and u could use it as ur backup school.</p>

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<p>Well, Cornell was the first place that came to my mind when reading your stats. Don't go to a tech school unless you really, really want to focus on that. Hopkins sounds good. How about George Washington as a safety? Look at Vanderbilt.</p>

16

<p>Try Fu at Columbia for a reach...</p>

17

<p>I think Case Western is more of a low match than a safety. Cornell is a reach and, depending on your definition of a city, Ithaca may not qualify. I know my brother in law left there because he was tired of being in the middle of nowhere (YMMV).</p>