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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dear DCUM College Admissions Fantasy League participants, please help us by suggesting school for us to consider/visit this coming year.  Many of you have now visited many places and know more than we do. Maybe you have a similar kid or know of similar kids and where they are happy. We are looking for a nice balance of reach, target, and safety schools. Also wondering how many schools people typically apply to these days. Back in my day I applied to 4.

DD is:
-Broadly interested in science, cs, and math and will likely major in one of these
-Will likely want to go to grad school to become a researcher, so would like research opportunities in labs as an undergrad
-Makes friends easily with other nerds, but is not very into the party scene. Not an outspoken leader type, but not shy either
-Has not taken the SAT or PSAT yet, but generally tests well (had all 9's on ISEE entering upper school, for those of you familiar with private school tests)
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Educational psychology consultant here, with insight into many top schools over the yrs.

All 9s means she is likely 98th%ile or above IQ(133+), so likely will be 1450+ onSAT without much prep.

IF she ends up 1530+ first try, all 5s Stem APs, etc-- ie true >99.9th%ile/145+IQ as far as smarts, send her to an ivy+ /ie T10 uni. They all have nerd culture, are excellent for STEM, and have tons of females that fit your description, and she will need to be with a large similarly smart cohort to push her to her potential.  Nerds fit in at these schools, and the grad school/research connections for UG are obviously world class. 
98-99th%ile /1480-1510 may need the T10 environment too, but in the STEM fields they can be overwhelmed at schools with a large %of true geniuses and could end up having a huge confidence blow if they are well below the test means stem classes. Particularly as very bright females at all levels tend to have more self esteem issues/risk for imposter syndrome. 
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