What tier of schools should I consider?

Applying to College
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<p>I’m looking into Cornell, Dartmouth, and Florida State but I’m not sure if I could even get in to the former two. What tier of universities should I look into with this resume? Could you list some names? </p>

<p>Total of 11 AP’s for high school. (3’s, 4’s, and 5’s)

  • All A’s and 2 B’s total. (one was a high school course offered in eighth grade and one 10th grade)
  • I’ve maintained a rigorous academic schedule since sophomore year, but freshman year contained regular classes.
  • 4.0 GPA unweighted, 4.7 weighted, top 3% of my class, will graduate summa *** laude
  • ACT (31), SAT (1800), will take SAT Subject tests for American history and Chemistry (650+ at least)
  • AP Scholar
  • Laureate graduation award, and laureate presentation with a 5,000 page paper concerning LGBT marriage with a powerpoint (This is prestigious in my area).
  • Academic Achievement awards (3 years so far), Drama department award, and various drama awards.
  • President of the Drama Club, president of the Gay/Straight Alliance, school sponsored president of the International Thespian Society, historian of the Glee Club, Academic Team competitor, Key Club, and National Honor Society.
  • I’ve volunteered over 300 hours with a kid’s drama camp, at the hospital, library, and other areas as well.
  • Organized a city-wide dance for high schoolers through fundraisers for GLBT awareness.
  • I’m a male 1st generation American with family from Cuba, and the 1st to go away to college.</p>
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<p>I think you would really benefit from raising your SAT to at least 2000 (unless you’re going to send ACT scores, and I know nothing about those). With your current resume, I think you would do well to look into schools in the 30-50 range on the USNWR rankings (I don’t like rankings, but that’s the best way to give you an idea). If you want specific schools, you should throw out some characteristics you want in a school. Big/small, city/rural, party/non-party, etc. It’s hard to suggest schools without any criteria other than a set of numbers.</p>