<p>Hi Folks, I have a dilemma now and need to know which school Is reach ( except Ivy's in list) and another statistics and critics would be perfect. Here my SAT scores: SAT general 2200, 800 Math level 2, 780 US History, don't need financial aid. GPA: 3.8, 2 good teachers recommendations and my best advantages is my work-experience, 4 years with own business in online-consulting
1) 2 years in National Oil Company, part-time, full-time job. Programming and accounting.
2) 1 year in Ministry of Finance, boss Vice Minister of Finance.
3) 1 year in Switzerland, financial programming, UBS.</p>
<p>This is my list:
Harvard College
Princeton
Yale
Rice University
Stanford
Purdue
University of Michigan in Ann Arbor
Upenn ( Wharton)
Northeastern University
Duke University
Dartmouth College
University of Chicago
John Hopkins University</p>
<p>Although you GPA is a little bit low, UMich should still be a match for you. How is your SAT breakdown, where is your home state, and what is your intended major?</p>
<p>Other than Purdue and possibly Northeastern, you should consider all of those on your list a reach. Applicants too often have a misconception of what is a reach. It is any college that takes a low percentage of its applicants (30% or less; or in the case of a public university like Mich a low percentage of its out-of-state applicants even if usual admission rate is higher than 30%) and the vast majority of those admitted are top 10% in high school. Why are all of those reaches even for the best of applicants? Because they can and do reject many applicants with very high stats and majority of those who apply and get rejected have good stats.</p>
<p>If you want true matches or safeties you need to look at colleges with higher admission rates and lower top 10% numbers like Northeastern and Purdue.</p>
<p>For UMich, it will depend on which college you are applying. Yes, the acceptance rate is low, but there are 40% oos student at UMich which is much higher than most public schools. With SAT 2200 which is at around 65-70% (2250 at 75%) of admission stat, the acceptance rate is definitely above the average applicant if you are applying LSA. The overall acceptance rate was 33% last year, while that for oos was around 20%.
I agree that most of the other schools are reach (of different level) schools except Purdue and Northeastern though.</p>
<p>Erin’s Dad
I graduated my HS 2 years ago :). First 2 years, I finished in my 10-11 grades, another 2 years after school.
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Ok, everything so sad :), thank you very much ;)</p>