<p>4.0 weighted GPA. School doesn't report un-weighted. (I only have two b+'s in Honors English and U.S Histroy. I got A's in all my AP classes)
SAT: 2070 (690 CR, 690 M, 690 W) (Retaking them this November)
SATII: Physics 720. (I am planning on taking the math and chemistry subject tests on October )
ACT: I haven't taken them, but I will take one on September </p>
<p>Sophomore Year: AP Physics,
Junior Year: AP Chem, AP Stat, AP Calc AB
Senior Year: AP Bio, AP Music Theory, AP Comp Sci, AP Calc BC, AP Econ
I took orchestra, English, and other humanities classes.</p>
<p>Extracurriculars are okay:</p>
<p>I volunteered at a hospital. I am interning at a university. I am the concertmaster at my orchestra. I am the captain of the physics team. I have joined several clubs including: math club, physics club, interact club. I played lacrosse and during Freshmen and Sophomore years. I ran XC Freshman year. I was part of an selective orchestra in a city. I volunteered to play the violin at a community for the elderly. I have done a ton of community service relating to music. </p>
<p>Colleges</p>
<p>UConn
Duke Univ
Georgetown Univ
Johns Hopkins Univ ED
U of North Carolina Chapel Hill
U of Pennsylvania
U of Virginia Out of state
Washington Univ in St Louis
Williams Coll
Vanderbilt University
University of Michigan
UCLA
Haverford College
Davidson College</p>
<p>What would be my safety, match, and reach schools? Can you recommend me schools that could be matches? </p>
<p>a safety has to be some place your family absolutely can afford. so run the net price calculators on each of the schools so you know what you can afford. we cannot tell you about safeties, except to suggest academic safeties.</p>
<p>what do you intend to major in? what is your state of residence (this also helps with designating a safety)?</p>
<p>As your SAT now stands, none of the scores is above 700, and so it’s likely that all of the schools are high matches or reaches except UConn.</p>
<p>BME makes the admission even tougher at some of these places.</p>
<p>Many of these schools offer only 3+2 or similar programs in bioengineering. Most students choose not to leave their friends before graduation to go off to engineering schools. That doesn’t leave this list with many schools that have a 4 year BME degree.</p>
<p>Rensslaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) may be worth a look, they offer BME and are probably a match for you. Have you tried the ACT, or taken and SAT subject tests?</p>
<p>I guess what we’re saying, OP, is we don’t like your list. Even with the full pay, that SAT is a drag. The schools on here where you could say maybe they would be happy to take your 50K in OOS money are UMich or UCLA (the latter of which also usu. emphasizes GPA over SAT).</p>
<p>1) Do you really want to go to a school that doesn’t offer engineering on-site? are 3+2 programs an indication that you’re not sure about engineering?</p>
<p>2) With or without the 3+2s, the list seems really top heavy unless the SAT improves by a couple hundred plus points.</p>
<p>So until the SATs improve or the ACT comes back with a 31 at least, add some schools like PSU, OSU, RPI, URochester, UMD-CP, and UPitt.</p>
<p>Yes I understand my SAT scores are lacking, and I am studying really hard right now for the november test. I will take the ACT this september and october (I am trying to grub out some last minute points you see). I am not totally concrete majoring in engineering. Would University of Mcgill and Williams and Mary college be matches? I really like southern and west coast schools.</p>
<p>You’re offering me too many variables, OP. I’m sorry, but I cannot offer you options with such a fluid situation–there are way too many permutations. When you get those better scores, when you decide whether engineering is still on the table or if it’s still on the table at 3+2s, when you’re ready to hear perhaps advice you may not like, I will try my best to help you.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, they only like the “name” schools. I wouldn’t mind applying to any of the schools jkeil911 suggested, but my parents are the ones restraining me from applying to other state schools. As of right now, any of the state schools including UConn are acceptable to them.</p>
<p>I find it interesting the are OK with UCLA but not UMich. I consider them to be peers. Actually if you CAN pay that much for UCLA then UVA and UNC will probably be about the same (they meet need but it sounds like you have no need). How did Williams get on the list?</p>
<p>My parents allowed me to apply to a couple of liberal arts schools. They will only allow me to enroll if I receive enough aid so that the total tuition would be around Uconn’s tuition. So that would be around $20K-$30K per year. </p>
<p>I am interested in Williams College because of its tutorial systems. Also, I really like how the college is situated in a rural/suburban area, which is similar to where I live right now.</p>
<p>But aren’t OP’s parents concerned with recognition among the elite, movers and shakers, “brand name” grad schools… rather than random people down the street who only know colleges if they play football or basketball plus their alma mater and some random ones?</p>