What's realistic, what's a reach?

Chance Me / Match Me!
1

<p>I thought I had an idea about what I wanted to apply to before meeting with my counselor, who pointed out that the public school I go to has such an amazing reputation that all my realistic college choices suddenly became safties... to quote: "WPI Loves us. They would throw money at you like no tomorrow if you went there."
Now I'm kinda lost, and I'm wondering if people have any ideas on what could be a realistic option for me, and what would be considered an attainable reach, based on the following. I'd like to stick around New England/Mid Atlantic if I can.</p>

<p>At the moment, Bucknell is kinda sticking out to me as a reasonable choice.</p>

<p>SATs
700 Math, 630 CR (taking new ones in a week and a half)
SAT IIs
780 Math 2c, 760 Chem, 630 Bio E (Freshman year), 460 French (forced to take by parents! HA! Better than nothing I suppose... I hate it anyway).</p>

<p>GPA
Unweighted - 3.67/4.0
Weighted - 3.98/5.0
No class rank, but .02 in weighted GPA away from being in top 16% (Out of 460)</p>

<p>Junior Year...
AP Chem - 5
AP Poli-Sci course (1 Semester) (didn't take AP 'cause no time to study all the stuff we didn't cover).
H Trig - B+
Intro to C - A
...nothing else out of the ordinary beyond that.</p>

<p>Senior Courses
AP Euro (Audit - No grade, no credit. I just want to learn the stuff w/o pressure)
AP Calc AB
H Physics (Plan to take AP, even though it's not an AP course)
AP Psych
AP Java programming
Advanced English</p>

<p>EC:
Speech and Debate
- Team has been very successful on a whole, and contains over 100 members
- Dedicated member (9 - 11)
- Captain (12)
- Awards
- Went to NCFL Nationals last year
- 2nd, 3rd in Play Reading
- 1st twice in Multiple Reading.
- Is currently over half of my HW load. =0</p>

<p>-Director of Recycling Club (member 10-11. Director 12)
-Assistant Coach to the Junior High Speech and Debate team (11 - 12)
-Writer and Layout Editor of the school newspaper. (9 - 12)
-Awarded some certificate for over 150 Community Service hours.
-NHS</p>

<p>Thanks for reading all that. Any Math/Sci school would be cool, but I'm also very much interested in drama, and I guess my passion is MOVIES (Nationals performance was of a Gollum section from The Two Towers movie). THANK YOU!!!</p>

2

<p>It would help if you called your top choice college my preciousssss...</p>

3

<p>Yay lord of the rings! I wrote one of my essays on its impact on me :D</p>

4

<p>Haha, yes, at this point my essay is about how I realized I was ACTING the lines and not just mimicking the movie (and contains a few Gollum coughs for laughs and giggles). I like PavelB's idea, though I'm not sure how I'd fit that in unfortunately.</p>

<p>However, I also find it amusing that no one answered my actual questions. =( Do you want more info? Like some other schools I'm considering before you suggest a few more? Or are people just lazy? lol. Thnx for any input.</p>

5

<p>...anybody?...</p>

<p>Please, even if you respond saying "I want more info before I can suggest anything" or if you just yell at me about anything else you want me to say, that'd be helpful!! Thnx!</p>

6

<p>try lehigh (reach) or virginia tech (safety). </p>

<p>Both excellent math science programs</p>