<p>Asian/Caucasian female, junior
4.0 unweighted GPA
All AP or IB classes
Rank: 11 out of 760
First SAT score:2110
Key Club Officer, CSF, NHS (hopefully will be an officer for those two senior year)
14+ years of dance
Soloist with local ballet performing company
Volunteer as assistant at dance studio
Hopefully majoring in pre-med or something similar
California
I might be missing something, if there would be any other helpful information let me know!
Please help me figure out which types of schools I should apply to; I'm extremely undecided and afraid of aiming too high.
Thank you! :)</p>
<p>Please help me!! No one in my family is very familiar with college admissions and my school counselors aren’t very experienced…
It’d be VERY much appreciated!! :)</p>
<p>Cal States are safe bet</p>
<p>oh my… you have incredible grades. im jealous.
Apply to ivy leagues for sure, but you need to raise your test scores – a 2250 would be a good goal for you. (or higher if you can)
some names of schools -
Reach (just because they are reaches for everyone)
Brown, Dartmouth, princeton, Standford</p>
<p>Reach/Target-
Duke
UCLA
UCB
Washington & Lee</p>
<p>safety / kinda target:
Vanderbilt
USC
Wake Forest
U. Richmond
Boston College
NYU
William & Mary</p>
<p>Your grades are excellent so will help you alot, but if you want to be ivy material you need to improve test scores some. don’t stress too much, as is you will dfinatley get into washington and lee…
you need to demonstrate your uniqueness. the ballet-centered activities are good, in your essay you can write about how it has been an oultet / passion for you – just emphasize what makes YOU unique and not a boring 4.0, 2400 student</p>
<p>Thank you guys!!
@Vihzel: do you think I would be able to apply to UCs too?</p>
<p>I definitely plan on taking the sat again, and I just took the act so I will see how I did on that. I am also taking satIIs in June </p>
<p>A potential list of schools: UCI, UCSD, Berkeley Ucla, USC, NYU, Penn state, u Penn, Stanford, Columbia, and one or two cal states for safety. The last few I’m definitely not sire about, but what do you guys think about those?</p>
<p>I’m also a volunteer for UNICEF</p>
<p>Your GPA and class rank make you a relatively competitive applicant for Berkeley, UCLA, and UCSD although your SAT score won’t put you in the top of the top quartile at UCB and UCLA. I would re-take your SAT to try and raise your score as high as you possibly can. Make sure you complete your ELC (stands for “Eligibility in the local context”, top 4% in your class) paperwork if you have not done so already (should have received it at the start of your junior year). This year ELC candidates were given “auto-acceptance” into the mid and lower tier UC’s however I’ve heard next year they will be tweaking this a bit and may limit the number of UC’s that you will get an auto admit into. The acceptance is guaranteed if you apply to that school but some restrictions apply-- maintaining your grades, completing the a-g requirements, etc. </p>
<p>You will want to apply to some reach, match, and a safety school or two. Your safety school can be the mid/lower tier UC’s that you will be offered an auto-admit into. You will also want to talk with your parents and see how much your parents can afford. Check out the “Paying for College” and the “Financial Aid” forums located on the left margin of the CC pages for more details. You want a financial match and safety school so that if you’re accepted to a school you will be able to afford to attend regardless of what type of financial aid is offered. Now back to your original question, what type of schools you could get into:</p>
<p>Reach schools (Take a shot, what do you have to lose?):</p>
<p>Rice
Northwestern
Washington University St Louis</p>
<p>Match schools (reasonable chance of admission but not a sure thing):
USC
UC Berkeley
UCLA
UCSD
Boston College (but they don’t give good merit aid, except for a couple handfuls of applicants each year)
Boston University
George Washington University
Lots and lots of Liberal Arts Colleges
Note: this is only a small sampling because you need to give more information of the type of schools you like and in what parts of the U.S.</p>
<p>The above list are schools that admit roughly between 20% and 30% of their Freshman applicants. Some schools have Early Decision where the admit rate improves however it is BINDING (for the most part) if you are accepted.</p>
<p>Lower Match/Safety schools (a “surer thing”, given your stats/resume):
UCD
UCI
UCSB
(Your ELC status will make one or more of these schools a Safety school) </p>
<p>You will need to form a relationship with someone at your school to help you with this application process. In addition to this there are people on this forum a lot more knowledgeable than myself. Good luck!</p>
<p>irmjunior person … seriously ? VANDERBILT AS SAFETY ? THAT’S A TOP NOTCH SCHOOL! :|</p>
<p>@jshain: Thank you so much! That was a lot of good information and I will definitely look into a lot of the things you said :)</p>
<p>Anyone else have any suggestions? :)</p>
<p>If you’re looking into Pre-Med, College of the Holy Cross (located in Worcester, MA, which is ~1 hour away from Boston) offers a fantastic Pre-Med program. HC does a great job of getting their kids into medical schools (87%). It’s also a good (#32) Liberal Arts school that’s mainly focused on undergraduates, which explains why the population is so small (2700 students). If you’re into a small student to professor ratio and like the close attention, then HC offers that. I haven’t visted (yet --I will this Sunday!), but it’s known to have a gorgeous campus and won awards for it. With your stats, I think you have an excellent chance of getting admitted. Pre-Med and biology however are the two most competitive majors/programs they offer so the space is limited. I got admitted to both and I had lower stats than you. It’s also SAT/ACT optional 
which is great! HC is pretty on par with schools like Georgetown, BC, and Tufts I believe.</p>
<p>Hm…I haven’t heard of that before but I will definitely check it out! Thanks!!</p>
<p>Anyone else?</p>
<p>well vanderbilt isn’t thhaaaat hard to get into… at my school the avg gpa to get in is a like 6.8-7 which is about a 3.75 or so… i mean it is a really hard school, but with a 4.0 your into vandy. its a great school but its no where near ivy league hard</p>
<p>You guys are definitely giving me more hope (:
Any other suggestions?</p>
<p>FYI I’m mainly interested in schools on the west coast and east coast, possibly texas too…</p>
<p>Anyone else? (:</p>