<p>Profile:
GPA: 3.6 uw and 4.3 w (worst 10th grade year–3.2 and 3.5 and best 11th grade 3.86 and 3.86 with the only B being in AP BC calc)
SAT:math-650 verbal-710 writing-700 </p>
<p>EC: 3 years varsity xc-captian- went to states 3 years
4 years varsity track-captian
Key Club-Secretary
Math Mentoring (tutor elementary students in math)
Isreali culture club
Women’s Engineering Program at CMU for 2 weeks every summer for 5 years</p>
<p>Current classes/grades
ap stat-A
ap Bio-A
ap euro-A
ap phyiscs C- A
ap english- B
gym -A</p>
<p>more important than the profile for you is YOU… what colleges are you looking for? specific majors? campus? big school? small school? good sports? housing options? weather? guys/girls/nightlife? etc…</p>
<p>id advise going to the college search and selection forum and see what they tell you</p>
<p>You need to tell us what you are interested in, what you want in a college, etc. Try using Princeton Review’s councilor-o-matic or another site like that.</p>
<p>I live in PA and will not be traveling further west than the Mississippi. I also want to go somewhere further south than pittsburgh. I would really like to attend a school in Maryland, Virginia, New York or DC. Size-wise i have no idea…I also have no idea what i want to major in…</p>
<p>well, I’m not too experienced, but I think your gpa and sat scores as well as ec’s are not high enough to get into the upper echelons of top schools like harvard or princeton, but I do think that you have good stats, and maybe should aim for somewhere like NYU, Notre Dame, or BC, what does everyone else think?</p>
<p>Are you <em>sure</em> you want to get out of PA? In the eastern part of the state, there are many, many fine schools that won’t be close to home. </p>
<p>Out of the state schools, you might want to look at UMD, UVA (a reach), and UNC (farther south than you wanted, I know). William and Mary would also be a reach, although, if you want to study science, I don’t know how good that would be. Private schools to consider would be George Washington, American, and NYU (but not if you need FA). Another safety might be Drew in NJ.</p>
<p>BTW, your junior grades will be far more important than your sophomore grades - so you’re in a good position. If you take the SATs again and improve your scores, esp. the math, you’ll have even a better chance at getting into these schools.</p>
<p>I am really intrested in what would be considered a resonable "reach ", “match” and “safety” would be…like an example to give me an idea of what i should be thinking about</p>
<p>Junior grades are definitely more important. They show an upward trend with maturity. A bad junior year despite an excellent sophomore and freshman year can eliminate you from contention at many colleges.</p>
<p>Junior year is known to be the toughest, both academically and in terms of pressure, since it often determines which tier of school will accept you.</p>