A Few Questions (+Chances)

BigEast55
Tue, 01 Jan 2008 15:02:36 +0000

So my mom has decided that she is going to pay for 4 applications for me, so obviously I want to apply to only 4 schools which cost me money, but I want to get into some quality schools, but I don’t want to apply to 4 schools too hard that I won’t get into any.

Stats:
ACT: 34
HS GPA: 4.0 unweighed (2nd in class)
Enough extracurricular stuff to get me into USC, Tufts, and Berkeley from out of state; and get me waitlisted->rejected at northwestern, and flat out rejected at Harvard, Columbia, Brown, and Dartmouth.

Going to college at SUNY-Geneseo (very well respected public liberal arts college)
Class: Freshman
GPA: 3.59 (it was a 3.7ish but my mom had health problems right around finals time, should I mention that on an application?)
Extra: Research (have my own project), will be volunteering at a hospital this semester.

I’m applying to USC (which is free for me because they can just reopen my app), Brandeis (free online app), and pick 4: Cornell (CLAS (in a NY res)), Duke, UNC, UChicago (really like it there, prob somewhere i want to go), Stanford, and idk, I’m open to suggestions.

thanks!