<p>Hey, I’m a NJ Junior, looking at my first list of colleges for myself and want to see what my stats can do and where they might be able to take me. I have 2 sisters who attend TCNJ and Penn State right now, one for international affairs and the other in engineering (respectively). I went to all the colleges they visited…most of them didn’t pluck any strings in me. I don’t know much about most of the following school, and the majority I have not visited, but these are the ones I am looking at:</p>
<p>Reach:
MIT
UPenn</p>
<p>Best Fit:
Carnegie Mellon
RPI</p>
<p>Safety:
Rowan
Stevens</p>
<p>???:
Vanderbilt
Johns Hopkins
Dartmouth
Columbia</p>
<p>Yes, the reaches MAY be quite a reach, but I am unsure as to what I should be looking for in each school (and those under the question marks, I have no idea where to put them anyway). My classes/scores/activities are as follows:</p>
<p>Rank: 50-70(?)/300</p>
<p>AP US2-------------------------------------------------------------B+(avg.)
AP Lang&Comp-----------------------------------------------------A
AP Calc BC (After CP Alg1 and CP Geo–>Major skip)-----------A-
H Physics (The highest available at my school for Juniors)-----A+
H German 4--------------------------------------------------------A+
(Misc Engineering Classes)----------------------------------------A+</p>
<p>Have not taken any AP tests yet</p>
<p>SAT—1700 (not good…I know.)
Comp----540
Math-----700
Writing–460
Have yet to take ACTs (Will in about 2 weeks)
Will DEFINITELY retake SATs</p>
<p>Soccer team (Freshman/Soph)
History Club (Fresh/Soph/Junior [Officer])
FBLA (Soph/Junior [Officer])
National Honor Society (Junior)
German Honor Society (Soph/Junior)
Tutor (Soph/Junior)
Community Service (Fresh/Soph/Junior)
Iron Chef Competition (Junior [Winner])</p>
<p>I probably have more to add to that list, but either they’re even more irrelevant then what I included or I forgot them for the moment. My dad helped me with a different college list, and having been an MIT grad himself, he had much higher aspirations for me…I included a few of the schools in my list. And if it makes any difference, I intend on majoring in Chem. Engineering…right now that’s what i’m interested in learning, and if not, I’m positive it will be SOME sort of Engineering.</p>
<p>So what would these types of schools think of me? Thanks so much to everyone.</p>