Does not taking APS mean I won't get into selective universities?/what schools should I be applying

Chance Me / Match Me
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Hi I’m a junior from ma. I go to a highly ranked high school in my state that is extremely competitive. however, our AP program is small. Only AP chem and APUSH were offered this year and neither fit into my schedule. I plan to possibly take AP Bio, AP STATS, or AP GOV (would choose one or two).

My stats:

3.88 GPA (unweighted), 4.28 weighted (all honors, and regular math)

Extracurriculars:
Editor for my school newspaper
President and founder of current events club
Social Justice Leadership Program
Internship with organization attempting to diminish achievement gap
racial awareness class
Costa Rica Community service

SAT Scores-- will prob stick with the SATS. So far just started practicing and I am aiming to get around the 650-700 range for each subject.

I want a fun school, but also one that is serious about academics and has a large jewish student population.

So far these are what I have:

Emory- is this a reach?

Michigan- is this a reach?

Tulane

Syracuse (my sister goes here)

Lehigh- is this a reach?

GW

Please suggest others. I am thinking of WASH U, but I am afraid that is way too big of a reach. Looking to apply ED 1 somewhere next year.

Share your thoughts!

thanks (:

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Are you taking whatever the hard options are for your various classes like English, math, history, science, foreign language, etc?

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I take the hardest classes offered for english and science. For math I do regular (Advanced is hardest), for history do honors (hardest is APUSH), standard is below both honors and AP. Language I do honors which is between advanced and standard.

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Have you thought about Brandeis?

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Can’t tell until you take the SAT but based on GPA and being oos UofM is a reach

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Do you only consider private universities / East coast? If not, you should look into UCs (UCLA, UCSD, UC Berkeley).
All have very large Jewish student population and are fun.

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Also, Binghamton U and UMD have large percentage of Jewish students and active Hillel. Being out of state can give you a boost for admission (assuming your parents are OK paying out-of-state tuition). For in-state, did you look at Umass Amherst? My D is applying there because of their large jewish population.

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My parents are fine with out of state universities. I’m not interested in UMASS visited it really hated it don’t want to stay in the MA area. I’ve been told binghamton is major safety… not sure maybe you could provide some insight. I’m considering UMD but toured it with my sister did not love it.