yet another where am I getting in thread!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>VITAL INFORMATION:</p>

<p>I live in a rural town on the end of Long Island, NY. This is not your average behemoth of a LI school, with a 800 person graduating class. This is a tiny, 6,000 person community, with a 550 person high school, that offers a measly 7 APs, (those I listed below plus music theory) and no real "honors" classes to speak of.</p>

<p>Class Rank: 10 of 96
GPA: ~92.4 (my school uses percent scale)
SAT I: 750CR/650M/700W (retake in november)
SAT II: Bio-M (10th Grade) 730 (taking Math II and Lit in october)</p>

<p>AP Scores:
Biology 5
Environmental Science 5
US History 4</p>

<p>Classes Taken:
English I,II,III (100 regents)
AP Literature (currently taking)
Global History I, II (98 regents)
AP US History (99 regents)
AP Government and Politics (currently taking)
Math A,B accelerated (you do junior high math and science in a year to get a year ahead)
Pre Calc
AP Calc AB (currently taking)
Regents Earth Science (grade 8, 97 regents)
Regents Bio (96 regents)
AP Biology
AP Environmental Science
Regents Chem (94 regents)
Regents Physics (currently taking)
Intro to Philosophy (half year)
Chorus (freshman year)
5 years of french</p>

<p>EXTRACURRICULARS:
Student Newspaper (continually award winning): 4 years, editor in 11, 12
Literary magazine: 4 years, design and layout editor 11,12
FIRST Robotics (Team 870): 4 years (approx 40 hours a week during build season, but no official position...my unofficial titles have included "builder" "grease monkey" "lathe and mill *****" "team filmmaker" "photoshop god" "scout overlord" and "team photographer")
Yearbook: 11,12: copy editor, layout editor
Book Club: 10-12
Interact (community service): 9-12
Gay-Straight Alliance: 9-12
Quiz Bowl: 9-12, captain of undefeated JV team in 10th, member of undefeated varsity team 11th, varsity captain 12 (possibly, it's being decided this week)</p>

<p>ACADEMIC HONORS AND WHATNOT:
National Merit Commended Student (possibly more as the late-september mailings come in, but I doubt it)
AP Scholar</p>

<p>What I did with my summers:
9th: Brown University Pre-College program in documentary filmmaking (3 weeks), worked for local government in Tax Assessor's office doing data entry and management
10th: Columbia University Student Journalism program (1 week), worked for local government doing field research, publication design, and database creation for the Historic Landmarks Preservation Committee
11th: sort of set a precedent as (As far as I know) the youngest lab tech/research intern at the Rockefeller Research Labs at Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in NYC. I performed experiments on active projects, while learning the biological principles behind the research. To say the least, it was totally sweet.</p>

<p>Schools I am applying to:
Brown (possibly early)</p>

<p>Tufts (legacy: father got MD there, not that he did anything other than smoke pot and skip class, but ace tests)</p>

<p>Cornell Ag (I could possibly get a really good letter of rec. from a rather famous sociologist who's entire family went there, and has since written a handful of the standard sociology texts for undergrads and grads. He also heads up the sociology department at CUNY. He's also dating my mom, so that might help...)</p>

<p>UC Berkeley</p>

<p>UC San Diego</p>

<p>BU</p>

<p>U Wisconsin-Madison</p>

<p>Johns Hopkins</p>

<p>Carnegie Mellon</p>

<p>NYU</p>

<p>Any advice, oh great seer that is CC?</p>

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<p>uribendovid:</p>

<p>UCB: Slight Reach (out of state)
UCSD: Match (out of state)</p>

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<p>Below top 10% at a school that isn't very competitive probably eliminates Brown. UCB and SD oos are highly unlikely. Tufts as a legacy is probably your best bet.</p>

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<p>Your 92.4% probably equates to a 3.74 GPA, but your rank of 10/96 (meaning top 11% or so) works against you. With both of these in mind, plus your quite impressive extracurriculars and not that tough a courseload, I'd say:</p>

<p>Brown--Slight Reach
Tufts--Match
Cornell--Match to Slight Reach (if you get the recommendation, maybe match)
UC Berkeley--(out-of-state)--Slight Reach
UC San Diego--(out-of-state)--Match
Boston University--Match
Univ of Wisconsin-Madison--Match
Johns Hopkins--Slight Reach
Carnegie Mellon--Match to Slight Reach
NYU--Match</p>

<p>I guess my question is, what do you want to major in--engineering, biology, journalism or computer science? Because the different schools you are applying to all specialize in different things. If you are really undecided, I'd go to Tufts or Cornell--but if you want science try John Hopkins or UCSD--and if you want computer engineering or information systems (which is in the business school), go to Carnegie Mellon, Boston University or Wisconsin. NYU is primarily for finance majors, film school people, or those going into theatre/music programs.</p>

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<p>As Tufts - and most schools - define legacy, it's only if your parent or grandparent wetn to school there as an UNDERGRAD. However, if your father has been active alum (giving $, etc.) then you will definitely have a legacy status</p>

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<p>this is probably one of, if not the toughest courses of study my school offers
the problem is i spread out my 6 APs
i took my ap bio in sophomore year, and the ap bio teacher alternates yearly between ap bio/environmental so i took environmental when i had the oppurtunity (11), as well as the only other junior class AP (us hist)</p>

<p>thus i'm left with 3 aps this year. some people in my class are taking ap bio now with the other 3, giving them 4, but i only have 3...</p>

<p>i'm not totally undecided, but i'm thinking along the lines of molecular biology (possible double major in journalism)</p>

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<p>bumpity? bump? bump bump?</p>