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-Entering Senior Year at really competitive private school in San Diego, CA
-GPA 3.86/4.49 (school weights Honors and AP courses)
Upward Trend (B+/A- to A/A+)
Very Hard Senior Year (5 AP's, 7 classes)
10 Honors classes total, 7 AP's
-SAT I: 2110 (will retake, should get at least 2200)
Math:.............750
Reading:.........710
Writing:..........650
-SAT II: US Hist:..........710
Biology (M):....750
Math II:..........790
-AP's: Biology:..........5
English Lang....5
Micro Econ......?
Macro Econ.....?
Physics B........?
Calc AB..........?
Human Geo.....?
English Lit.......?
-Extracurriculars:
Arts:
13 years of piano lessons (with music theory awards)
Play keyboard in school's Pep Band
5 years of self taught jazz guitar
Guitar in Pep Band and school jazz band
Taught myself saxophone and trumpet in summer before senior year to
play in school's jazz band.
Really into jazz (essay material)
Sports:
2 years Varsity soccer (likely captain next year)
1 year of Varsity Tennis
2 years of Varsity Golf
Insanely good at foosball, badmitton, and footbag (hackey sack) (best in school of ~700, should I include?)
My team won school's intramural hockey championship (should I include?)
Pretty good surfer...
Other:
Over 50 hours of community service (certain # required for school)
Small amount of job experience (like a week :) Possibly more this year
Member of California Scholarship Federation
Starting fund raising club at school next year (for charity)
Im applying to (in order):
-Penn
-Brown
-Stanford
-UC Berkeley
-Northwestern (special program MMSS)
-UCLA
-Michigan (undergrad B-school)
-USC
-BC (legacy)
-UCSB
-BU (legacy)
Majoring in Economics:

Which of these schools are reaches/targets/safetys?
Any suggestions regarding this list (schools to remove/ add)? Thanks
- tyler

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you're set man sit back and relax
- angrypirate457
I agree! Chillax! Its senior year!
- ashlee09
Um, your top four are pretty much stretches for anyone, but they're all carefully composing their freshman classes and I'd bet you get into 1 to 3 of those. Stanford is obviously insane for anyone, especially in California. Brown often likes candidates that are more outta left field. I don't know anything about competitiveness at this MMSS program at northwestern, but I think you have very good chances there, at UCLA and Michigan. I think the others are pretty much safeties.
- patternlanguage
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