<p>@ctl987 Thank you for that post. It was very unbiased and exactly what I was looking for!</p>
<p>Oi, I’m from Belgium and applying to:</p>
<p>Eugene Lang College
Parsons
NYU
Columbia
Brown
Berkeley
UCLA</p>
<p>Also not quite sure about safeties</p>
<p>Hi! I’m from California and so far have come up with this list, looking to add a couple more schools.
(No Particular Order)
UC Davis
UC Santa Cruz
UC Santa Barbara
Cal Poly SLO
Humboldt State</p>
<p>Probably ED wesleyan or NYU </p>
<p>then
Trinity College
Wake Forest
Boston College</p>
<p>safeties probably
U Illinois at urbana</p>
<p>for shore
University of Life</p>
<p>Track Recruit going into business, economics or applied mathematics. </p>
<p>Definitely Applying:
Harvard
Yale
Brown
Dartmouth
Boston College
MIT</p>
<p>Possibly Applying:
Princeton
Cornell</p>
<p>Safeties:
Umass Amherst
Northeastern</p>
<p>order will probably change with the what coaches tell me over the summer for likelihood of admission</p>
<p>@Mbr131, i have almost that same list! i’m also trying my luck at UCLA and UCSD. But I really want to go to Cal Poly SLO through ED!!!</p>
<p>Top Reaches: Cornell (probably ED), MIT, Columbia, Princeton
Reaches/high matches: Carnegie Mellon, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern
Safeties: RPI, Lehigh, UM - College Park</p>
<p>@tigerash that’s awesome! what major are you considering?</p>
<p>Reaches: Vanderbilt, Rice
Somewhere in between match and reach: UT-Austin, Georgia Tech
Match: U of Washington, UIUC
Safeties: Purdue, Colby (Double Legacy, Eng. 3/2 w/ Dartmouth)</p>
<p>Definitely applying:
MIT
Hopkins
Yale
Columbia
Cornell
UPenn
Duke
UMD (college park)
Drexel</p>
<p>Maybe Applying:
Harvard
UVA
UNC (chapel hill)</p>
<p>Definitely:
Cornell
Columbia
UChicago
Notre Dame
University of Michigan-- Ann Arbor
Washington University in St. Louis
Penn State</p>
<p>Maybe:
UC Berkeley
Stanford
Northwestern
UPenn
SUNY Binghamton</p>
<p>There are probably a few others that I’m forgetting. However, these lasts may get smaller considering how I pay to apply to these schools.</p>
<p>But what are some of your guys’ grades/school activities like? AP/IB classes and grades (if you’ve taken any before, since the AP scores aren’t in yet), GPA, rank, SAT/ACT scores (including SAT II), extracurricular activities, etc.</p>
<p>But good luck to everyone applying! As long as you’re meant to be at your dream school, you will be. If not, you’re meant to be somewhere else and that’s perfectly fine, too. So have no fear or apprhensions about applying because you have nothing to lose. :)</p>
<p>ED: Northwestern or Cornell
RD: University of Miami
Duke
UF
Notre Dame
Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>My gpa isn’t to good for ivies lol</p>
<p>my scores are pretty good 4.0 uw gpa, 4.24 weighted, 11 ap classes over the 4 years (well 3, since freshmen arent allowed) and 9 or 10 honors, 2340 sat (740 reading), 800 math 2 and 740 bio e subject tests. </p>
<p>my extracurriculars are pretty basic field hockey and lax captain, spanish honor society pres, member of NHS and Tri-M, but I also have some cool ones, like one of my classes next year puts me at my local military base studying how to stop neurotoxins from killing people, and I wrote a grant for $2000 that allowed me (with some help) to start raised beds with produce that is donated to my school cafeteria and local soup kitchens</p>
<p>My GPA may not be that great for ivies either lol. I have a 3.85 UW and 4.1 W. But what’s going to knock me out of the competetion is my low SAT score (1690) which I have to raise or else I’ll have a very hard time getting into any of my dream schools. I’ve also only taken two AP classes my junior year (I got A’s in both) but I am taking 4 in senior year. I made the mistake of taking about 3 regents classes (in 9th & 10th grade) which I found to be detrimental in the long run because I knew that I could do better (not trying to sound condescending about regents students). However, the classes I took that were’ent regents or AP were honors. But I am ranked in the top 3% of my class which I think is significant, but not significant enough to overshadow my SAT score. However, here are my EC’s:</p>
<p>Soon to be junior commissioner for a local environmental organization.
Soon to be president/co-founder of my school’s Young Politicians club.
Student council Vice President junior year, president for senior year.
Member of my school’s mock trial team since freshman year, co-captain for sophomore, junior, and senior year.
Public relations officer for sophomore, junior, and senior year as well as for my school’s branch of the Habitat for Humanity organization.
Member of my school’s chapter of the National Honor Society.
Member of my school’s Literary club, Multicultural club, and I’m an editor of my school’s newspaper.
I also do the PA announcements for my school.
I am a Bank of America student leader.
And I have experience as a paid intern at a local nonprofit agency that focuses on serving families/people in need. I got that internship through the Bank of America student leadership program.</p>
<p>I am from Louisiana and an aspiring ChemE or Chemistry major and I need help narrowing down my list!</p>
<p>Early decision: Carnegie Mellon
Early: Rensselaer, Georgia Tech, UMich, LSU, and Tulane</p>
<p>Regular: Vanderbilt, UPitt, UT Austin, U Deleware and Urbana Champaign</p>
<p>Dream: Carnegie or RPI</p>
<p>Safety: LSU and Tulane</p>
<p>Here’s where I’ll apply to for biology and statistics!</p>
<p>-ED at Harvard
-Cornell University - College of Human Ecology
-University of Chicago
-Ohio State University Honors Program
-University of South Carolina Honors College
-Clemson University, Calhoun Honors College
-Colgate University
-University of North Carolina
-Case Western Reserve University
-University of Pennsylvania</p>
<p>That’s where I’m looking at. Good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>University of Chicago (my dream school even though it is a huge reach and I logically shouldn’t be too attached to it)
Northwestern
UIUC
Suburban IL LAC not named for anonymity-my safety</p>
<p>My list is gigantic, but it may not end up being so.</p>
<p>I’m applying Questbridge NCM, and I was going to rank </p>
<p>MIT
Stanford
Yale
Princeton</p>
<p>in that order, as they are all of the non-binding schools. I’m really considering adding USC as number 5, because if I don’t get into MIT or Stanford, I think I really just want to go to USC anyway. I’ll assume for now that I’m only applying to USC RD.</p>
<p>If no MIT or Stanford from the NCM, this is the full list of schools that I plan on applying to RD (lots of QB application forwarding):</p>
<p>MIT
Stanford
Caltech
Bowdoin
Pomona
Rice
UChicago
USC (Viterbi)
UVa
Vanderbilt
Amherst
Williams
UT Austin (auto-admit, and there’s no way I’m getting rejected from Cockrell)
Colby (a kind of financial safety, I suppose)
Bates ( " as for Colby)
Harvard (I really want this rejection letter, I think many feel this way)
Yale
Princeton
Columbia
UPenn (M&T, not going to get in, probably SEAS or Wharton as second choice)
Dartmouth
Brown
Cornell</p>
<p>I believe that’s 23. Whatever, I’m going to USC. I will probably just rank it, too many supplements to complete just to go to the same school at the end…</p>
<p>Definitely:
Princeton SCEA (Molbio)
UChicago (From Chicagoland region)
Yale
Harvard
JHU
U of I</p>
<p>Weighted GPA: 5.0
ACT: 35 and 10 on writing
SAT (first time): 2300
SAT II: 800 on Math 2 and 790 on Bio M
Executive board member for STAND: organization that does fundraisers to help organizations like Somaly Mam tackle global justice issues
Co-concertmaster of highschool district orchestra
Winner of the concerto competition (Khachaturian violin concerto)
Regional 4th place in radio speaking for speech
Speech team captain
Concertmaster of District 7 IMEA
3rd chair first violin in Illinois ALLState orchestra
7 years of volunteering at the library
Recipient of the University of Chicago Book Award
Gold Medalist at the Midwest Chinese Teachers Alliance Chinese Speech Contest
Published poet
Silver key recipient for a poem in the Arts and Writings Awards
Conducted freshman orchestra
Member of track team for two years
participated in a seminar focusing on public health at NU
Mission trip this July to Kentucky
A private tutor for 4 years
A private violin teacher for 3 years
Teaching assistant for my highschool’s science and engineering camp for two years</p>
<p>That’s all I could think of now</p>
<p>@ironchariot - I’m the exact same when it comes to UChicago.</p>
<p>My list:
UChicago - early action (how I wish their early application was binding…)
Columbia - possibly early
UC Berkeley
UCLA
UCSC - super safety school
Williams
Haverford
Northwestern</p>
<p>In all likelihood, I’ll end up at Berkeley or Haverford, depending on how much my parents are willing to pay for me.</p>