Where Should I Apply?

College Search & Selection
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<p>where should i apply, please?!?!!?</p>

<p>White Jewish Male
Florida
Competitive High School in South Florida</p>

<p>GPA: 3.8 UW
SAT: 1400 old 2100 new
ACT: should i take or not?
Rank: 35/510 top 7%</p>

<p>EC's:
National Honor Society
Spanish Club
Math Club</p>

<p>Community service at Hospital (Pharmacy and on Cancer floor) 200 hours
Community service internship on Political campaign 150 hours
total: 400 hours community service</p>

<p>i started my own leukemia foundation to fundraise for childhood leukemia, nothing that big but as much as i can raise</p>

<p>Leadership positions: Internship in Washington D.C. in local congressman's office
Internship on major political campaign for Ron Klein my whole summer
Math Club Treasurer</p>

<p>I write for my school newspaper as staff writer one year, page editor senior year</p>

<p>I also write for Next Generation a program offered by the major newspaper in the area, the Sun Sentinel</p>

<p>I was honored at a Foreign Language Fair for Impromptu speaking: given a Superior (highest) level</p>

<p>I take the hardest classes...by end of high school i will have completed 11 AP's</p>

<p>AP European
AP US
AP Human Geography
AP Eng. Lang. and Comp.
AP Eng. Literature
AP Spanish Language
AP Chemistry
AP Psychology
AP Calculus AB
AP Government
AP Economics</p>

<p>Also dual enrolled at local college, Florida Atlantic University, and took 3 college level classes: one during Junior year, 2 during summer</p>

<p>all of my other classes are honors besides for requirements that are regular level</p>

<p>I really would like to apply to a top 25 school and hopefully money will not be an issue.</p>

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<p>I think you should strongly consider the University of Florida. I think you are right on the fringe of qualifying for the Honors Program. </p>

<p><a href="http://www.honors.ufl.edu/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.honors.ufl.edu/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>i was going to apply to UF because i can get a 100% scholarship there and i was probably going to apply to the UF Honors College too, but that was just incase i didn't get into my top choices......i really did not want to stay in Florida because I am from the North and prefer it more...what do you say about out of state colleges</p>

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<p>I find these sort of posts very confusing and a little depressing. I don't even always know what shirt I want to wear on a given day, how can I pretend to know what would be the best educational opportunity for someone I'll never meet? Rather than dumping a bunch of fine numbers and "ECs" on us, why not tell us a little bit about what you expect from college, your major academic interest, and what you want from the rest of your life? Then, I would at least have some idea of who you are and what you want.</p>

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<p>You never said what you wanted to study so its hard to make specific suggestions for you, but assuming youve taken and done decently on a few SATII's I would shoot for maybe 1 or 2 reaches in the Ivy League at maybe Cornell or Penn (though they would def. be true reaches RD) then a few slightly more realistic reaches at schools like Northwestern, Hopkins or Geogetown, a few matches along the lines of Emory or Michigan and then a safety or two in UF and maybe an out of state state school like Wisconsin.</p>

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<p>well nyjeff, your post was exactly what I was looking for because....</p>

<p>well i want to major in one of these three things for i have not decided completely yet: Political Science
Pre Med
Pre Law</p>

<p>I am looking for a college that is in the North, Chicago, New York, Mass., Connecticut, basically anywhere in New England. I would go to a hotter area though if the right opportunity presented itself. </p>

<p>I am going to take 3 SAT II's in may and hoping to do 700+ on all 3</p>

<p>When I graduate I want to attend either medical or law school (i am passionate about both of these career choices, but have yet to decide) and I eventually want to run for public office and become a politician...
this is why Washington D.C. is so appealing to me</p>

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<p>do you care about size of school? urban/rural/suburban? do you want there to be a strong active jewish community on capus?</p>

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<p>i really do not mind a rural setting, but then again i do not mind a city setting either
personally, if i were to apply to an ivy league like dartmouth or cornell that as more rural, i would definitely forfeit the city life, but for the rest of the colleges i plan on applying to i want to apply to colleges near major cities like northwestern/chicago nyu/nyc georgetown and gwu/d.c. emory/atlanta u of chicago/chicago</p>

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<p>the jewish community on campus probably will not play a major role on where i decide to apply/enroll to college</p>

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<p>Your list sounds good to me, provided that you have safeties. The schools on your list sound like match/low reach for you. How about Brandeis and/or Tufts. Brandeis should be safe for you. Tufts is unpredictable for most people. U. Rochester would be quite safe and may offer aid.</p>

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<p>You may want to look at some of the larger LACs such as Wesleyan, Colgate, Middlebury, Bucknell where you would seem to enjoy the experience and accomplish what you want.</p>

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<p>i think emory, georgetown, gwu, u of chicago, nw are all like matches closer to low reaches, but what about dartmouth, cornell and the lower ivies?</p>

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<p>Unless you come from a renowned public hs like Stuy, being as high as the top 7% will hurt your chances at any Ivy. You're in the running, but I wouldn't call it likely that you should count on it.</p>

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<p>what percentage at least should you be for ivies?
what about the other schools i listed above...georgetown, northwestern, u of chicago, emory, nyu will being in top 7 percent hurt me?</p>

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<p>Northwestern, Georgetown and Chicago are definitely low-reaches, and being in the top 7% is fine. NYU is more of a match, as is probably Emory.</p>