<p>i'm being recruited for lacrosse, so that will help me out, but aside from the help i get from coaches, I want to know where I could go without the sport (while still counting it as an important extra-curricular).</p>
<p>GPA: 4.945 weighted, 3.918 unweighted
rank: 23/872 weighted (97%), 43/872 unweighted (95%)
SAT: 2230, CR: 730, M: 710, W: 790
ACT: 33 w/ writing, 34 w/out (also what schools accept it w/o writing...the colgate site and maybe middlebury gave me the impression that they didn't require writing)
PSAT: 227
SAT IIs: spanish: 760, math II: 670, literature: 690
APs: taken lang and comp, micro econ, macro econ, spanish...going to take amer. gov't, comp. gov't, calc AB, and lit and comp....don't have scores on the ones i have taken
activities: football: hopefully a captain senior year, lettered last year and started a couple games on a good team.....lacrosse: captain, overall MVP, defensive MVP of jv team in 05, started one game and lettered as a junior, probably captain of my summer team.....church group: 2 hr biweekly meetings, 15 hrs of service, grades 11 and 12......bands: played in several bands freshman year and raised more than $300 for charity by organizing concerts.....NHS: considering running for president next year</p>
<p>with lacrosse aside, i am interested in the ivy league (especially dartmouth), colgate, middlebury, michigan, vanderbilt, UVA, and other NESCACs like amherst or wesleyan</p>
<p>thanks a lot</p>
<p>UVA in-state - in
UVA out-of-state - match to reach (hey, they have crazy standards for OOS)
Vanderbilt - in
Michigan - in
And the rest I'm not qualified to say</p>
<p>word to uva's out of state being crazy...at another school in our conference, the valedictorian didn't even get in.</p>
<p>your ranking will hurt you at UVA - you have the test scores though. Contact Coach Starsia :)</p>
<p>UVA, Duke (on 2nd thought maybe not), UNC-Chapel Hill, Berkeley or even Stanford, really anywhere. You have very good grades, strong test scores, and good extracurriculars. you can really go anywhere depending on how hard you try with your essays and such.</p>
<p>p.s. lax rules so I'm giving you extra points for that :)</p>
<p>yeah the duke situation just kills me...that would be a prime place for me b/c i love the south and it seems like a good fit. now i am 100% sure that my parents would never send a tuition check to duke.</p>
<p>well then definitely look into unc-chapel hill and UVA. Both are really good schools but killer when it comes to out-of-state admissions, it's worth a shot.</p>
<p>try dartmouth? sounds like a good fit also.</p>
<p>for the nescacs (which is an awesome atmosphere for lax!):
grouped together by decreasing selectivity:</p>
<p>williams
amherst</p>
<p>bowdoin
tufts
wesleyan
middlebury</p>
<p>conn college
hamilton
bates
colby
trinity</p>
<p>amherst/williams are reaches for everyone, you have a good shot at the middle group of schools, and should get into most of the bottom group. good luck!</p>