Would love some help narrowing college list!

College Search & Selection
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<p>Trying to narrow down my college choices. Any opinions? All help would be appreciated.</p>

<p>Caucasian male
GPA 4.0/5.1 weighted
Class Rank: Top 5 / 300 (not sure where in the top 5)
SAT score: 700 reading/780 math/750 writing
SAT IIs not yet taken
APs: Comp Sci A 5, Calc AB 5, Eng Lang 4, Span Lang 4
Curriculum: IB Diploma with extra APs</p>

<p>ECs:
- Founding member of school’s robotics team, team captain, 2 years
- Boxing club, 2 years
- Interact Club, 3 years
- 5 different NHS’s, actually do some cool stuff in Spanish NHS that I could talk about
- Charter member for local Serteen club, been in that for 7 years
- Lots of CS hours and will be amassing more to fulfill CAS requirements
- D&D Club
- Videogame Club
- Have held a part-time job for the past 4 years doing various IT consulting
- SPRI research scholar, 6 week research internship at University of South Carolina through Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics</p>

<p>Desired Major: Engineering (mechanical, electrical, or financial)
Schools I’m Considering:</p>

<p>Early - Stanford</p>

<p>Regular:
Cornell
Duke, have pretty good connections here
Dartmouth
Olin
Princeton
Yale
Rice
Vanderbilt</p>

<p>Safety – Clemson, full ride</p>

<p>Also considering applying to Cambridge internationally, who knows? </p>

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<p>nice stats. most of these schools are incredibly difficult to get into no matter what tho. do you know what size school you would prefer?</p>

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<p>MIT and Caltech aren't on your list? Interesting. But I believe Yale has more of an inclination toward the humanities as their programs in those areas are better than the Engineering/Science ones (though of course, those are pretty good as well). I suggest keeping Cornell and Olin on your list though.</p>

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<p>If you have to drop some, Yale and Princeton seem the best. Nobody's chances are that great, and they are not known for engineering. I suspect that you will do well with the rest of your RD list and have some choices. Stanford is hard to get into, but I hope that it works out. You have good ECs.</p>