I’m a major procrastinator, and am also really stressed out on the whole college application process. If people could please help chance me, I would be incredibly grateful. Thanks!
SAT: 2170. 760CR, 680M, 730 W(1st time). 2340. 780CR, 790M, 770W (2nd time)
SAT 2: 800 Math 2, 800 Chinese, 710 World History, 690 Physics - Should I send in my world history or physics subject test along with math 2 and Chinese? I’m planning on doing a science major, but nothing engineering so science isn’t necessarily required.
Unweighted GPA: 97.1 (our school does GPA on 100 scale). I have a rising GPA trend though. Started at around a 95 in freshman year and went up to a 98.7 in junior year.
Rank: 7/200ish
Senior Course load: AP Bio, AP Economics, AP Gov, Dual Enrollment College English, AP Calc
Number of AP’s taken: 4 (our school offers very few AP’s and I have self-studied two)
AP Scores Reporting: AP World-4, APUSH-5, AP Lit-4, AP Physics 1 -3
Honors: National Honor Society (2 years), National Merit Commended, Selected for SSP (had to leave mid-program due to personal reasons though)
Extracurriculars: Piano (All-State, won some regional concerto competitions, play for school musical productions and school’s Jazz Band), Violin (All-State, Area All-State, All-County, Concertmaster for school orchestra, school’s Contemporary Strings, and pit for musicals when required), Science Olympiad (Vice President, won a couple of medals at the regional level), Quiz Bowl, Ping Pong (co-captain of school team), New York State Math League
Community Service: Technology things for local hospice and Helping Hands, specifically soundboard, some other music performance things, totaling maybe around 200 hours?
Work Experience: Teach children piano
Essay: Thought it was pretty good, talked about failure and how I learned from the experience.
Recommendations: Probably both really good. One is from my AP Lit teacher who really likes me and I’ve had for 3 years. The other is from my AP Calc teacher who I’ve had for 2 years and wrote the teacher rec to get me into SSP. Guidance counselor recommendation is also probably really good since I talk to him a lot and he knows me pretty well.
State: New York
School Type: Small Public
Ethnicity: Asian, Chinese
Gender: Male
Applying for financial aid
Intended major: Biology (either molecular or computational), Neuroscience
Schools:
Princeton University SCEA
Stanford University
Brown University
Johns Hopkins
Tufts
Cornell
University of Rochester
Boston College
Boston University
Northeastern
SUNY Stony Brook
Potentially Villanova
Is 12 schools too much and are there other aspects of my college list I should be focusing on or other colleges I should add? Should I mention SSP in my honors/extracurriculars even though I left mid-way (I do talk about SSP in my common app essay though). What should I do with the subject test situation? Thanks so much!