<p>I am a junior and have been looking quite a bit recently at colleges, but I have no idea where to be focusing my search as far as selectivity goes. There are two main high schools in my area: one is failing and the other is consistantly selected within the top 10 high schools yearly by both Newsweek and US News/World Report. I chose the more selective high school. I will have completed writing a full thesis by the time I am applying to colleges and will have completed about 100 hours of community service. I am in the National Honors and Spanish Honors Society. I live in the south, and am gay and the founder of my school's GSA (not fun or easy where I live). I have taken all honors courses and will have taken 7-8 AP classes by the time I graduate (AP European History, AP Psychology, AP Language and Composition, AP Calculus AB, AP Physics B, AP Literature, AP Government, AP Economics, but my weighted GPA I expect will only be around a 4.4. I have no idea what my unweighted is, but I think it's about a 3.5ish. I don't know what my SAT scores are, but I'll be able to tell you in about 2 days when they come out. </p>
<p>What types of colleges do you consider to be my safeties? good bets? reaches?</p>
<p>Thank you</p>