<p>Is this considered a good list of schools? I’m finishing up applications this week, and, after getting rejected by Stanford, I just don’t feel like I’m going to get into hardly any of them. </p>
<p>Here’s my list:</p>
<p>Reach
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Columbia
UPenn</p>
<p>Match
Rice
Duke
Washington University in St. Louis
University of Southern California</p>
<p>Safety
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
University of Maryland in College Park</p>
<p>Without going into too much detail, here are my stats:</p>
<p>Asian American planning on majoring in Biology/Biotechnology (surprise surprise =\ )</p>
<p>SAT: 2180 (770 M, 710 CR, 700 W)
SAT II’s: Math II 800, Bio E 740, U.S. His 720
ACT: 33 (34 E, 34 M, 32 R, 30 S)</p>
<p>GPA: 4.0 UW, 4.79 W
Rank: 1/364</p>
<p>(If you want to see a full profile, EC’s or all that jazz before you evaluate, you can just search up any of my past chance threads)</p>
<p>So I think everything else on my application is fairly strong…but I feel like my numbers drag me down. I know, after getting rejected by my dream school Stanford, that I pretty much have no chance at the first five schools on my list, but I figured I might as well give it a shot. In fact, I’ve become somewhat disillusioned to the understanding that college admissions is, no matter what people say, still numbers driven. I wish I had scored a 2300 on the SAT, but I guess it’s too late to talk about that now right? :)</p>
<p>Anyway, do you think I could get into Rice and Duke? I really want to go there, but after an unsuccessful EA round, I just feel unqualified. Do you think I’m shooting too high or is this a good list? I don’t want to find myself having to pick between just Maryland and RPI in April (though I wouldn’t mind going to either). Advice would be much appreciated. Thanks!</p>