Looking for Matches/Safeties

veryindecisive
Sun, 13 Jun 2010 04:23:51 +0000

Hey,
I need some help looking for/figuring out what schools would be good “matches” and/or a few possible safeties for my list. I have pretty strong stats, which has tended to skew my list towards highly selective colleges, and I want to try to find some more “match” colleges - I really don’t want to get screwed because I got too cocky. Help is greatly appreciated.

General/Academic Info
GPA: 4.0 (UW). School doesn’t weight, but it should be around 4.6 (Dual Enrollment and Honors are worth 5.0?)
Schedule - toughest possible without skipping levels.
SAT: 2360 (800M 800CR 760W-all essay)
SATII- awaiting (US, Math2, Lit)
PSAT: 231, should be NMF
APs: Euro - 5, awaiting Calc AB, USH, Japanese, and Lang&Comp
Will take classes in Lit, US Gov, Stats, Comp Sci, and EITHER Calc BC OR Chem

Race: Chinese/Filipino/Caucasian mix
HS considered strong public school in WA

Extracurriculars
Bassoonist in a strong Symphony Orchestra
Leadership in debate club (except we got screwed over by district budget issues - attended very few tournaments)
Junior State of America
Several other minor academic/community service clubs - nothing major, but respectable.

Preferences
Possibly interested in Computer Science as a major. Definitely want to go for Math/Science/Engineering areas, hopefully study in multiple areas.
Geography: Leave WA, avoid the South. Prefer inside a city, will settle for near a city.
Size: Medium - I won’t discount small schools out of hand, but I’d prefer something around 2000 students or larger.
Prefer Universities to LAC, but I don’t mind LA as long as I can get a good strong focus on math/science/engineering.
I really want to be around intelligent people. I want a school to have all or mostly strong, intelligent students, which is part of why this part of my search is so difficult.

Any and all help is much appreciated.