Where should I apply?

College Search & Selection
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GPA: 5.44 (unweighted)
GPA: around 3.5ish (weighted)
Rank: 77/613 (top 12% about) - new ranks haven’t come out yet but I’m anticipating a 0.1 drop in my unweighted GPA…
SAT: 800 M, 700 W, 690 R (2190 total) - idk if I should take it again (should I? I’m worried it might go down. probably won’t be able to get a perfect score on Math ever again)
SAT 2: Taking Math 2, Chemistry, and U.S. History this Saturday
ACT: 36 M, 35 R, 30 S, 29 W <- ( essay) (33 total)
ECs: Debate (3 years), DECA (3 years), YES club, Spanish National Honor Society (1 year), Red Cross (1 year)
Recs: Counselor agreed, planning on getting one from my English 2 teacher
AP: World History, English 3, Calculus AB, Computer Science 2, APUSH, Chemistry 2, Psychology, Human Geography, Government (summer), Macroeconomics (summer), English 4 (senior year), Environmental Science (senior), Comparative Government (senior), Microeconomics (senior), Statistics (senior)
Honors: Everything else except required classes like Speech, Health, Debate 1 (elective), Spanish 1, Spanish 2
Anticipated Major: Chemical Engineering or Business (most likely chemical engineering)
Colleges: UT Austin, TAMU College Station (decided on applying)
Sports: Volleyball
Special: I volunteer as an MC for cultural events. I still have the videos that my parents took; my counselor said that I should send them to colleges when I apply.

Can ya’ll suggest some high safety/match/low reach schools for me please?
Thanks in advance.

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In another post, you mention that you are a Texas resident. That’s important info, especially if you have financial constraints. Can your parents pay the full freight, or do you have limits in that area? Are there other constraints? (distance from home, weather, personal preferences). And by the way, most (though not all) school super-score, which means that even if you get a lower math score the second time you take the SAT, your best score in math is the one that they will use. Also, question about why you are getting a rec only from your English teacher when your goal is engineering? Most good engineering schools want to see a rec from a Math or Science teacher. It’s not mandatory, but it seems odd.

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@N’s Mom I am getting a rec from my English teacher because she is a UT alumni and I asked last week and my precal/algebra 2 teacher also agreed to give me a rec. additionally my counselor is also giving me a rec. my chemistry 2 teacher is only giving out limited recs and a lot of people already asked her… :frowning: my parents can pay full for colleges so i’m not really worried about that (well I am but still). I don’t really have many preferences because right now I need to think about more colleges I want to apply to rather than limit my search in any way. But I would like to go to a big school.

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@N’s Mom

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