opinions on good match and reach schools for me?

Chance Me / Match Me
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Hi! I am a senior at an extremely competitive public high school in Southern California. I am applying ED2 to Vanderbilt after getting rejected from ED1 UPenn. I am also applying to UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, UCSB, UCSD, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, NYU, Tufts, Swarthmore, USC, Vassar, and Washington University in St. Louis. Some schools I am conflicted whether to apply to is: Pomona College, Claremont McKenna College, and Dartmouth. I would love to hear your opinion on the schools I am applying to (or am considering)!! Also, it would be great to hear opinions on some good match/reach schools as well! Thank you so much!!

ACT: composite (34), superscore (35)
composite breakdown: English (36), math (35), reading (34), science (31)
unweighted GPA: 3.9302
weighted GPA: 4.349
rank: 25/532
AP scores: European History (3), US History (3), Biology (4), Art History(5), English Language (5)
only sending my Korean with Listening SAT 2 subject test (770) becausd the other are pretty bad…

Extracurriculars:

  • sports page editor for high school publication (10-12)
  • our high school newspaper is extremely high ranked internationally and widely acknowledged
  • Model United Nations member (9-12)
  • publicity officer (11), president (12)
  • job at a bakery (12)
  • job at a restaurant as a hostess (12)
  • JV Girls tennis (9-11)
  • internship at an asset management company (12)
  • internship at Prinics (photo printing company)
  • volunteer at a senior rehab/hospital (10)
  • volunteer for after school program (11-12)
  • social media manager for my church’s high school ministry (10-12)
  • National Honor Society member (10-12)

Most of my main extracurriculars center around journalism. At both my internships, I wrote articles for the company.

Awards:

  • excellence award for sports writing in National Journalism Convention write-offs
  • 14th place for sports writing in SoCal Journalism write-offs
  • 7th place for sports writing in county journalism write-offs
  • top of class award for AP Art History
  • research award for Model UN conference
  • JV Girls tennis most improved player

Ethnicity: Korean
Gender: Female
Intended major(s): Communications, English, or Art History [ranked from most to least interested]
I plan to get my letter of recommendations from my journalism advisor and AP Art History teacher.

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I forgot to add that I was recently awarded as a Commended Scholar for the National Merit Scholarship program. (not sure if that helps much though)

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You def have a good shot but id also add some safeties to this list. btw some schools ur applying to basically require 2 SAT 2s nit just 1 also cornell has a full score send policy

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Elite schools, with some exceptions, tend not to offer communication as a major. Opportunities in journalism, however, may nonetheless be abundant through extracurricular activities. With respect to your interest in English, you would find excellent choices among schools such as Vassar, Hamilton, Tufts, Kenyon, Denison, WUStL, Pomona, CMC, Pitzer, UCB. For a major in communication, choices such as NYU, Northwestern, USC and UCSD might appeal to you. For generally literary colleges, this article could be worth reading through: http://flavorwire.com/409437/the-25-most-literary-colleges-in-america.

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You may want to consider some of the other schools in the Claremont consortium like Pitzer and Scripps. Occidental College maybe. I would think being a major media center like LA or New York would make sense for you.

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From your listed group, Cornell also makes sense for you as a school to keep.