What colleges should I apply to?

Question

Bellaire High School, incredibly competitive school in Houston area

SAT 2030 will retake Oct
ACT will take Sept
SAT II: Math 2 780 World H 720 Bio M 720 US H 750 Chinese 800
AP: World H 5 US H 5 Eng Lang 4 Stat 4 Bio 5 Chinese 5
Weighted GPA: 4.700 on a 5.0 Scale
Unweighted GAP: 3.85/4.00
[All Pre-AP/AP/Pre-IB/IB/Honor Classes]
Ranking: Uncertain, but very high possibility of top 5%
400+ Hours at MD Anderson Cancer Center
Many other volunteer hours
Texas All State Orchestra 10th
Region Orchestra 9-11
Region Solo/Ensemble Gold 9-11
State Solo/Ensemble Gold 9-10
Honor Roll
Nation Honor Society, Chinese Honor Society, Freshman Mentor, Interfaith Officer, Chrisitian Student Union
Summer job in 2007

I don't have a specific list and I'm not quite confident because of my SAT scores...

Any suggestions?

Much appreciated... =]

Answer 1

Your accolades are good enough to apply to any variety of schools. If you want to stay home, apply to Rice. (I don't recommend staying home).

I would consider picking a school known for its... well... whatever you're interested in studying. I might also consider regions. If you want to move to CA, apply to Stanford or Berkeley. East Coast, try a couple of Ivy League schools that interest you for the heck of it, just don't bank on getting in. Consider whether you're interested in smaller, private schools or larger universities. If you like large, public universities, the best are University of Michigan, UC-Berkeley, University of Virginia, UCLA and UNC. These places are so different, geographically, that it should depend more on how far away you want to go.

Finally, someone with your abilities should be planning on graduate school. What this means is that your undergraduate university doesn't matter quite as much as how WELL you do during your enrollment there.

Answer 2

Given your SAT II scores, I wouldn't be surprised to see your SATs go up when you retake. If that happens, it will help you a lot. And you have excellent extracurriculars. Right now, you have a good chance at some of the decent public universities (UT Austin, for example), or you could look at some pretty good private schools (although not at the prestige national level, like Rice).

Answer 3

With these scores and plethora of activities/volunteer work, shoot for some big schools. Ivy League, Stanford, maybe Clemson.

However, apply to schools that will accept your awesome AP credit- otherwise it will just be a waste. Collegeboard has a site that will show you what colleges accept certain scores.

How did you learn Chinese?

Answer 4

San Diego University

Answer 5

shoot for some ivy leagues if that's what you want, i believe you have a good chance...you seem well rounded and your scores are pretty solid.
you could attend a prestigious ivy league, but if their program for your major isn't too strong...ehh...
so make sure you take other factors into account (not just the name of the school), such as major, location, campus, etc. also, don't be cocky like some people i know and make sure you apply to some back up schools :) ..most likely schools in texas that you know will take you for sure!~

Answer 6

University of Wisconsin
its the second best public school in the nation
UCLA
NYU
Columbia
University of Miami
try the Ivy's. You look pretty impressive

Answer 7

retake the sats and then apply to whichever ones you want. i went up 200 points taking it a month later because i wasnt so nervous the second time.

Answer 8

the UCs in California, Harvard, maybe Princeton.

Answer 9

you could probably get into some top tier schools, but you have to look through some college books and see what you like.

Answer 10

you can get into a lot of colleges with that kind of scores.