Chance Me: CA Female Math/CS/Stats, [3.9 GPA, 1570 SAT] Unique ECs and cohesive profile but no big awards

@AustenNut provided you with some info. For highly rejective colleges (your list of reaches), it is my opinion that “recommended” should be viewed as “required”. Many of the students applying to these competitive colleges will have met these recommendations…and more.

I think you are a very strong student. I DO think you will be attending a great college! But, in my opinion 13 reach schools is too many…and again I ask…why so many!

Are you just now (prior to senior year) starting to research this? I only ask, because we started looking at colleges when our kids were earlier in HS. The STEM kid found out before 11th grade course registration that ALL of the colleges she was interested in required three years of a lab science. She had a general science plus was taking her second lab science in grade 11. She then knew she had to take another lab science in grade 12…even though she had three years of science. This was required by her colleges.

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