#Need Target

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steady jay
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I’d REA Yale

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Beautiful campus and better education than Dartmouth in just about every regard

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Dartmouth is still a phenomenal institution and Ivy League but its much more like a LAC that gives PhDs

outer dagger
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African-American, Title I Public School
Location/Region: Anywhere outside of the Deep South in the United States, but well ranked in Deep South is part of my list tbf so feel free to include ig
Major: Chemistry + Physics
GPA/Test Scores (optional): 3.68/4.00 UW 4.20/4.5ish W, 97.5/100 W ( Test Optional 😭 )
(11 Dual Enroll, 2 APs, 8 Honors)
Rank: 14/305
Curriculum: Possibly Pre-Medical, so anything with strong research in Chemistry and other undergrad research support.

Supportive class sizes (like slightly smaller, preferred) as math is not my STRONGEST subject, haha
Size: Any Size is okay
Costs: Something preferably under 30k
Schools you're currently looking at (if any): UT Austin, Howard, UVA, Mich???, Dartmouth, TAMU, Colgate, American, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Tulane

prime plinth
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I doubt if UMich will meet your affordability goals

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If you qualify for significant financial aid and intend to do UVA anyways, may as well also give UNC a shot

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Have you an in state safety in mind

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Also do you claim Texas residency

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If you're ok with the south I'd also recommend rice

outer dagger
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UT austin and TAMU are my safeties cause auto admit, everything else is reach territory

prime plinth
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Unless you're ok doing premed from something like "health and society", don't make UT your safety

outer dagger
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TAMU and UTSA more than likely then

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i don’t think i’d really get capped as a chem major though

prime plinth
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But good luck teehee

outer dagger
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most of my list is reaches tbh but I just need to find a mid range

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it’s been kinda hard

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Pitt and Howard feel about where it is but Pitt still leans a little closer towards “safer?”

steady jay
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Ohio State University is quite good in all areas of STEM

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And would be a good safety

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They have strong research

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Case Western Reserve is quite good as well and prolly better for pre-med but it’s less strong in research iirc

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Case has very good financial aid iirc

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U Maryland is also a very strong institution in STEM

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Big in research as well and is a bit more selective than OSU

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OSU and UMaryland and more safeties for sure but Case would lean more towards target

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URochester is a pretty good target school

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Idk about chem but regarding their physics they’re best in the country in optics

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I have no idea about affordability though

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U Illinois Urbana Champaign is very strong for physics and for OOS it could bleed into the category of target rather than safety

balmy yoke
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Omg chem phys

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Apply to Harvard uwu we have chem + phys as a major

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outer dagger
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The other schools seem solid, might add UMD and UIUC then

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steady jay
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In State I would say target if not maybe safeties unless you decide to suddenly try CS or engineering at UIUC

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OOS I don’t think it changes too much except for the aforementioned fields?

outer dagger
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I live in TX so ive been trying to account for that with my OOS

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wanted to apply to UNC earlier in app cycle might add it back depending on FA estimation

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mich was honestly just there b/c robotics double would be cool but still have to justify damn near 50 K when UT =~ UM more or less

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still bouncing around tho yk

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currently debating between Yale REA and Dart ED

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expecting deferral/auto-reject on both but imma try

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EA for everything i can and Hopkins or Colgate will probably make ED II and everything else will be RD

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currently applying to all strictly under chem

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maybe philosophy for second interest @ yale cause i got a lil bit of a “concentration?” not necessarily a spike there and it is an interesting topic

steady jay
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Why dart?

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They’re not particularly well known in research if that’s really gonna be your thing with chem and physics

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OSU and UIUC have better chem and physics than Dart I’d say

outer dagger
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Dart is my ED, might lean into some more humanities related things also time permitting