Help Identifying Potential Schools

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Hi everyone at College Confidential,
I will be entering my senior year of high school this fall and have recently begun my college search. Unfortunately, I have been running into some trouble on my search. There are so many good schools, but since I have decided to apply to ROTC I must limit myself to no more than 4-5 colleges so I must choose carefully. So far I have University of Michigan and Wisconsin on my list. In short, I come here asking you guys for some help in identifying some potential schools (both reach and safety public and private) that match my abilities. </p>

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<p>Description:
o White male
o Public school (4th best in the state)
o Major: Electrical, Mechanical or Biomedical engineering
o Top 5% of class (700 students in my class)</p>

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<p>Test Scores:
o ACT scores: Composite (32) English (33) Math (28) Reading (34) Science (30) Writing (10)
o AP Biology: 5
o AP European History: 5
o AP US History: 4 </p>

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<p>Academics:
o GPA: 4.04 weighted, ~3.89 unweighted
o 9th grade
-Honors Physical Science
-Honors Economics and Politics
-Geometry
-English 9
-Orchestra
-Chinese I</p>

<p>o 10th grade
-Honors Chemistry
-AP United States History
-English 10
-Advanced Algebra
-Gym/Power and Energy - complete disassemble and reassemble of 2 and 4 stroke motors
-Chinese II/III - tested out of level II</p>

<p>o 11th grade
-AP European History
-AP Biology
-PreCalculus
-Metals II/ Principles of engineering drafting and design - work with AutoCAD and Inventor, built model bridges, cars and boats
-Chinese IV
-English 11</p>

<p>o 12th grade
-AP Calculus AB
-AP Physics B
-AP Psychology
-Speech/ Honors Bible as Literature and Philosophy
-IB Theory of Knowledge </p>

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<p>Extra Curricular:
o Volunteer at local food shelf
o Tobacco, Alcohol enforcement officer - worked with nearby police department to try to buy each underage to catch stores who were selling to minors
o Undercover “John” - worked with a nearby police department to try to buy sex from prostitutes who were then arrested
o 4 years of football - 2 years on varsity, captain both freshman and sophomore year
o 3 years of varsity rugby - would be 4 but I had surgery which took me out for the 4th season
o 4 years of weight training club - captain
o Sophomore Service Project Leader - organized the sophomore kids against hunger service learning project
o Started own lawn mowing business - 5 years in business
o A honor role -freshman, sophomore and junior year
o Academic letter - sophomore and junior year
o Varsity Football Letter - Junior and will get one senior year
o (School’s name)* Award - awarded by the teachers and principle 2 times a year for academic and leadership excellence in the school
o 1 year of trap shooting club
o 1 year of super mileage club </p>

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<li>School’s name kept secret 
Any advice/opinions is greatly appreciated</li>
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<p>For safeties, look into state schools.
I would look at Duke, WashU, Rice, Columbia, and Cornell.
If you can really sell yourself with a good essay, you will have a shot anywhere.</p>

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<p>Thank you for the reply. Anybody else care to way in?</p>

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<p>Cornell, Duke, Columbia, Northwestern, Washington seem to be good schools to aim for. As for safeties, you probably know better :)</p>

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<p>I’d aim for a top 25 school along the lines of Duke, Notre Dame, WUStL etc…Your stats and ECS are great but considering the limited number of schools you can apply to I would avoid Ivies.</p>

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<p>Thank you again for the replies. I figured the ECS with the police department defiantly would help just from sheer uniqueness, but when I look at school like Cornell and Duke I feel like my ACT and GPA are boarder line at best. Is this correct or are the numbers I see posted both on other websites and the school’s website themselves a little inflated?</p>

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<p>Okay, the undercover thing=AWESOME!! Have never heard of that before! I wanna try that (except I’m a girl, so the prostitute thing would be really weird). You could write an amazing essay with that! (So many exclamation points… :p.)</p>

<p>Okay, I’m recommending Columbia, Johns Hopkins… the top schools for you. I don’t know much about the SEAS program, so I don’t know which schools are good for this and that. Your ACT and GPA aren’t killer, so you might want to retake the ACT and always apply for some safeties (Wisconsin is a definite safety, and U of M is good too). Again, your ECs are amazing, so they might cover up for ACT.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

<p>and if you could chance me back, I would fully appreciate that:
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