Help! people are confusing me!

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Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:44:18 +0000

Well basically what i mean is, people are telling me that i should be applying to more competitive schools:some of my very optimistic friends, my mom(kind of), some of my mom’s friend (one lives in michigan and seems to have a lot of knowledge on how it rolls around in the us, since im a korean in germany)…

Now i dont know if its allowed here or not but i dont care so: my sat is 2240 (verbal 700,writing 760,math 780 and essay 10), toefl 113, my act from october is 33. I go to an international school and my gpa is 6.54 out of a 7.00 scale. My activities are not so great: i did some community work over the summer, took part in the school creative magazine, and been in the school math team(our team got 9th in some competition with a load of international schools from all over). I was in the varsity tennis team in 11th grade and i got 2 awards from the uk math challenge. Not much and this is really it.

Ok, now so far i applied to SUNY binghamton and UNC chapel hill EA. For regular i want to try rice, virginia, johns hopkins, rochester, emory, duke and vanderbilt. Somehow people are telling me why im not applying to any ivies:brown or columbia or what not. I thought i was being down to earth, but now some people are bombarding me these suggestions. i plan on going for psychology or some subject related to biology

I have no idea what i should do. I spend a lot of time working on the list and i thought it was a realistic targetting list, but now i really dont know what to think…apparantly ill regret having applied so “low” (if you can call my list low that is, i am confident that they’re all good schools). Please HELP!!!IM CONFUSED…