wondering if i'm aiming too high

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>My info:
Senior, white female in TX public school, parents only earned associate's degrees (i read that this would mean i'm a "first generation student," is that correct?)</p>

<p>GPA: 4.0 unweighted, 5.8 weighted on a 6.0 scale
Rank: 1/630
Difficulty:All Honors/AP classes when available
SAT Math: 790
Crit. Reading: 710 (730 on another test, if you're superscoring)
Writing: 800
total: 2300 (2320 superscored)</p>

<p>SAT Subject Tests:
USH- 730
Math I- 710
Lit- 700</p>

<p>AP's (so far)
Eng. Lang-5
APUSH-4
Geography-4</p>

<p>Probably will end up being a National Merit Finalist</p>

<p>Not a well known high school, pretty much everyone goes to small local colleges</p>

<p>EC's:
Debate (3 years, Vice President, qualified for State and National tournaments)
Newspaper (3 years, Editor in Chief)
Youth & Government (2 years, qualified for State and National Conference)
Teen Court (mock trial thing, 4 years, Senior Attorney)
Swimming (4 years, not for the school team)
Amnesty International (president of my school's club)
NHS
Latin Club (Treasurer)
Volunteering at the Library, and reading to the blind.</p>

<p>Awards:
Won a few state-wide essay competitions</p>

<p>Schools (in rough order of preference):
Stanford
Columbia
HYP (lol)
Brown
NYU
Berkeley
University of Texas, Austin (Automatic Acceptance, b/c of the Top 10% law)</p>

<p>So, basically, I'm wondering if I'm applying to too many schools that are out of my reach.
Do you think I have a chance at any of the schools i listed? (aside from UT, of course)
Thank you, and if you link me to your post I will chance you as well.</p>

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<p>I’d say in at NYU and Berkeley, and Stanford + Ivies are random, but you have a good chance at getting into at least one</p>

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<p>I think you’re good, provided that you would actually be happy at UT Austin if the dice don’t fall your way.</p>

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<p>Your EC’s are quite solid. But I think your academics aren’t so super.</p>

<p>Here’s why: Your 2300 is decent, but a 710 in CR is honesty no good for the schools you’re applying to. Your SAT subject test scores are weak, especially for a student with a 4.0 (you don’t the colleges to wonder why you do super well in school yet not do so well on your subject tests and speculate about grade inflation). </p>

<p>On that note, I would raise that CR score (retake SAT) or fix up your SAT subject test scores. Your AP courseload is also “meh.”</p>

<p>Stanford and the ivies you indicated are a little high.</p>

<p>NYU and Berkeley are more realistic. You’d get into UT austin without a doubt.</p>

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<p>thanks, it’s reassuring to me to get the opinions of others</p>

<p>edit: i just saw what yangx88 said, and i was just wondering, will it count against me that my school only offers certain AP’s, though?
like, we aren’t allowed to take them freshman or sophomore year, and in junior year we can only choose from a few. but for senior year, 5 out of 7 of my courses are AP.</p>

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<p>I think you’re a strong candidate for most colleges. With HYPSCB you have a few issues–the low SATIIs, weak CR and not outstanding ECs.</p>

<p>I would really work on the scores and think through a great essay on a passion.</p>

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<p>Where in Texas are you from? (I don’t want to be competing with you lol)</p>

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<p>west texas, haha. i’m probably not that big of a competition for you, though, as everyone on this site has amazing stats.</p>