My Chances.....here we go...

Calcruzer
Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:46:12 +0000

In my view you should be applying to schools just below the Ivies, plus one or two Ivies with majors you are interested in, plus a safety school that you like.

Since you want to go pre-med, try John Hopkins and Boston University, plus schools like Ohio State as a safety and UCLA or UC Santa Barbara as a safe match to match.

Presuming you want someplace fairly cheap (in case financial aid is a problem down the line), consider schools like Arizona State or Penn State that have honors programs that might get you a scholarship based upon your grades/test scores. Also, look at schools with easy aid for internationals, like Colgate.

Then apply to two Ivies as slight reaches to reaches. Probably Dartmouth, UPenn, or Brown would fit you best. (Columbia’s site in New York is expensive, Cornell focuses on admitting New York residents and is focused on business, architecture, and agriculture; Princeton is engineering based, and Harvard and Yale are overly competitive for admissions.)

Good luck.