Confused rising senior needs a college list before the school year starts [NH resident, 4.0 GPA, 1470 SAT, 33 ACT, biology (pre-PhD, not pre-med)]

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@strugglingstudent2

Dartmouth, MIT, Tufts, Columbia, Cornell, Yale, UPenn, Carnegie Mellon, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke, UMich, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, WashU, Georgia Tech, Stanford, UC schools, and USC

These are all fine schools. I think you need to start looking at ways to eliminate some of them. Maybe ease of travel. Maybe weather. maybe proximity to a larger city. Maybe size.

And I think you need to visit some to get an idea.