“it’s perfectly feasible to double major at a wide variety of schools” (18)
Though true, this serves as additional information, but does not contradict other perspectives. In terms of schools with open or nearly open curricula, there are really only a few highly selective ones that I’m aware of (Amherst, Brown, Grinnell, Hamilton, Smith and the University of Rochester). These schools make natural initial suggestions for students interested in pursuing multiple fields in depth. They are not the only schools of course where this can be done.
Classes and tests:
GPA unweighted : 3.86
SAT :2230
AP’s: Macro, Micro, Language, Calc AB, Literature, Biology, US History, Psychology, AP Human Geography
Will take 4 Dual Enrollment classes senior year.
My school only offers spanish and that only goes up to spanish 3 with no honors version. But I will take Chinese online. I’ve also taken all honors from freshman year for classes that offered it except for one class - but that was because my unusual schedule could not accomodate it
I have taken the most AP classes of anyone in the school’s history according to my counselor. We only have 6 offered here, the rest were online.
-School does not rank
-School is #865 in country, so one of the better ones
EC’s:
-Student council, will be vice-president or president of senior class next year
-NHS
-Science Olympiad
-Academic Olympics
-Volunteer at a STEM center teaching how to use technologies such as 3D printers, saws, laser printers, how to build computers.
-Volunteers at an elementary school science camp
-President of language & culture club
-President of science club
-President of debate club
Awards:
-3rd, 2nd, and 1st place in STEM competitions in county
-Student of the month
-2nd place in county in protein modeling for science olympiad
Your record is excellent. Your SAT score, as it currently stands, is within the middle range for schools already referred to such as Amherst, Brown, Cornell, Hamilton and Northwestern. As you move forward you should, as suggested by warblersrule, further specify what you would most value in terms of your general college experience and realize that some schools with acceptance rates of ~25-30% and higher should be considered as part of your research. I agree, btw, that there is no reason to assume that schools such as Harvard and Cornell operate with substantially different admission criteria.
@FinelyAgedPruno: Putting ECs aside for the moment, you may want to coordinate a few SAT subject tests with your further academic work. If you could balance the subject tests with a math (particularly Math II), science and humanites exam, that would make your standardized testing extremely compelling.
I agree with @merc81 that your stats are excellent, and you have many options available to you.
If you’re not sure what you’re looking for in a college, I recommend tracking down a copy of good college guides. The Fiske Guide to Colleges and the Insider’s Guide to the Colleges are particularly good, and your local library likely has a copy.
To pick two examples, Bowdoin and Penn are both very good at biology and history and can prepare you well for medical school – but they differ dramatically in size, location and setting, athletics, undergraduate focus, etc. Reading descriptions of each college may give you a better idea of what you’re after.
If your local community college offers advanced instruction in Spanish, that might be preferable to starting a new language, particularly one as difficult as Chinese.
@warblersrule thanks for the cc suggestion, ill look into it though. But chinese may be easier for me since i took two and a half yeard of it in middle school
^ I wouldn’t recommend JHU then. Near Eastern Studies is strong but classics/classical history is fairly weak. Mesoamerican is nonexistent there AFAIK. JHU school of arts and sciences is fairly small - with your interests you want a very large history department, might be better off at a big place like Cornell or even a state flagship.
Given your interests, I strongly recommend taking a look at Tulane. It has pretty good ancient history offerings, is a powerhouse for Mesoamerican studies, and is great for biology and public health. As a bonus, Tulane is relatively generous with merit scholarships.
Among liberal arts colleges, you might want to look into Franklin & Marshall.