What schools should I be looking at?

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<p>I’ll be a Junior this year:</p>

<p>ACADEMICS: </p>

<p>8th Grade Courses (credit, show on transcript): French 1-Honors, English 9-Honors, Math 9-Honors, Earth Science Honors, History 9-Honors
9th Grade Courses: French 2-Honors, English 10-Honors, Math 10-Honors, Biology Honors, AP World History, Art 1
10th Grade Courses: French 3-Honors, English 11-Honors, Math 11-Honors, Chemistry Honors, AP US History, Digital Photography, Architecture, Fashion Design
11th Grade Courses: College French Honors, AP Language and Composition, AP Statistics, Math 12-Honors, AP Physics (no Honors option), AP US Gov, AP Macro/Micro Economics
12th Grade Courses (predicted): AP Literature and Composition, AP Art History, AP European History, AP Calc AB, College Sociology Honors, Business Marketing Honors, Forensic Science Honors (possibly), Health (required)</p>

<p>School GPA (4.33 scale, +.33 Honors, +.43 AP): 4.21</p>

<p>UW GPA on normalized 4.0 scale (not what our school uses): 3.92
Academic UW GPA: 3.87
W GPA on a +0.5 Honors and +1.0 AP scale (not what our school uses): 4.33
Academic W GPA: 4.37</p>

<p>School ranks by decile–1st Decile</p>

<p>TESTS:</p>

<p>SAT: I didn’t take SATs yet, but I took a free practice test cold turkey at the library, and I got a 2020: 610M, 700V, 710W</p>

<p>SAT II: 650 Bio, 720 U.S. (I’m going to take Math II next year)</p>

<p>AP: 5s on both exams taken so far (World and US)</p>

<p>EC:</p>

<p>-Arcadia-School Art and Literary Magazine [10-12]
Published
Layout Editor
-Viking Voice-School Newspaper [9-12]
Features Editor
-Mock Trial [10-12]
-Math League [9-12]
-Mu Alpha Theta [10-12]
-[probably] National Honor Society [11-12]
-National History Day (~5 hrs a week from September to May, yearly) [9-12]
-Volunteer at Library (~50 hrs by senior year) [9-12]
-Art Classes (~200 hours by senior year) [10-12]
-Volunteer at Art Museum (~150 hours by senior year) [11-12]
-Non-Paid Internship at Local Historical Society (~300 hours by senior year) [10-12]</p>

<p>-by the end of this summer, I’ll be selling handmade clothing/accessories online and I plan to donate 50% of profits to charity</p>

<p>AWARDS:
-Johns Hopkins Talent Search State Awards
-2nd Place in Mu Alpha Theta Log1 Contest
-1st Place in Regional NY Civil Liberties Union Essay Contest
-(2) 1st Place in Regional Competition for National History Day
-(2) 3rd Place in State Competition for National History Day
-school/academics related awards</p>

<p>As of now, I know I want in a school is for it to be academically challenging, relatively strong art/humanities/history departments, and to be in or near a city. </p>

<p>I’m just interested in knowing what types of schools would be reaches/matches/safeties for me, if there are any particular schools I might like, and/or if there is anything you think might help me in looking for a college or to improve my chances.</p>

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<p>You seem to have solid, consistent test scores. If you get a good SAT or ACT score, you should be able to look at top schools such as U Chicago, WUSTL, Northwestern, Rice, U Rochester, Boston College, and Vanderbilt. Also for top public universities- Michigan and Wisconsin may be good, because they are not off in a rural area. Look at good LACs as well. Many of them are not near cities, but Barnard and a few others are urban. If you need a lot of financial aid, you will have to focus on that, though. Boston University, George Washington U, and Tulane may be worth looking at whether you need aid or not. Whatever you do, include one or more good safety.</p>

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<p>anyone???</p>

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<p>Your SATs are weak compared to your GPA. Unless you can raise them, look at schools where your 1300 is at the 50% or higher such as USC.</p>

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<p>What do you do at the historical society? I’m looking for possible internships and the like.</p>

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<p>You have great stats. Concentrate on the SAT and ACT, that seems to be your only weaker spot (a 2020 is not a weak score, but you would be more competitive with a higher one). Considering that you got the 2020 on your first try without studying, I don’t think you’ll have a problem raising it if you practice for it. Also take the ACT.
I’d say that you’ll have a good shot at many of the most competive schools in the country if you raise your scores. Your GPA and ECs are awesome, just get your SAT to match and you’re good to go.</p>

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<p>collegekid100…well, considering that I had never even looked at an SAT question before taking the test since Johns Hopkins in seventh grade, I think I’ll be able to raise that score significantly. I’m hoping for at LEAST in the 1400s and I think I might be able to do even better since I have a year to prepare now, and I know my weaknesses. </p>

<p>JBVirtuoso…I do lots of different things. Its a small organization and I help setting up exhibits, getting things ready for exhibits (polishing stuff, etc.), catalouging new acquisitions, and working on an inventory that will soon be put on their website. I just found the society online and emailed them asking about opportunities. </p>

<p>LiveInLove115…thanks, and I think I might take the ACT too-I got a 28 on the PLAN. </p>

<p>I think that my main problem, more singificant than SATs, is SATIIs. I had wanted to take MathII and Literature and get >700 on them, but I recently realized that I won’t be taking APLit until senior year, and by then taking an SATII would be useless. So I’ll have a 650Bio, 720USHistory, and hopefully something good in MathII. Would this be OK if math/science are my weak areas which is shown in my transcript (my only Bs are in Math 11H and Chemistry H)
Oh and also leadership. I’m not sure if you could see any leadership in my ECs.</p>