What school should i apply early descision to.

What school should i try to ed? Cost it not an issue as long as the school is good. I'll be 150k yo 200k in debt when i graduate but with finance salaries being six figures your first year out of college and the growth in compensation the debt should be worth it i think. Any opinions on that?

I'm looking for a balance between admission chances and school prestige.

Here are the ones that i'm looking at: Washu olin Boston college Carnegie mellon Upenn Nyu

Heres my stats:

I'm a senior rn oos in texas, asian

Gpa : 4.7 weighted, 3.7 unweighted (not ranked, my school only ranks top 10 percent)

Sat :1560, PSAT :1490, national merit semifinalist atm

Ec's :3 years of high school jv tennis and tournaments outside of school, nationals bpa competitor for Advanced Accounting (one year), 30 hours volunteering at a thrift store, got a job at Whataburger since june 2021, member of business club freshman year.

Courseload (Honors, PAP, Advanced same thing) Freshman Year

  1. Honors English 1
  2. Algebra 2
  3. Biology
  4. Honors world history
  5. Health and Pe
  6. French 1
  7. Principles of engineering

Sophomore Year

  1. PAP English 2
  2. PAP Pre-Calculus
  3. PAP Chemistry
  4. Human Geography
  5. French 2
  6. Physics 1
  7. Tennis
  8. Tennis

Junior Year

  1. Tennis
  2. Tennis
  3. AP Lang
  4. AP calc ab
  5. Accounting 1
  6. US History
  7. PAP French 3
  8. PAP computer science

Senior Year

  1. Late arrival
  2. Late arrival
  3. Ap lit
  4. AP calc bc
  5. Earth space
  6. Money matters
  7. History
  8. Advanced art

Ap exams : ap lang - got a 3 (will take lit and bc this year)

Recommendation letters : my ap calc bc teacher said yes and so did my accounting 1 teacher.

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Weak EC relative to other ivy contenders. IRRC there are a few sub-reddits dedicated to admission and admission results. A lot of people with amazing ECs get rejected from all of the ivies.

 

Try for EA schools like Notre Dame or Georgetown. If I remember correctly Boston College is by far the easiest to get in with a 41% acceptance rate for Early Decision last year, but I personally would never settle for a semi target school like that when there are so many better options available (e.g. literally all the schools you listed besides Emory)

 

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