<p>Hi, i am currently in the process of deciding what colleges I'm going to apply to and I don't know what schools I should consider for safeties. Help!!!</p>
<p>Requirements: In the northeastern, private schools</p>
<p>Here's my stats:</p>
<p>Public High School from Connecticut</p>
<p>Class Rank: 5 out of 140
SAT: 2010/2400, (taking subject tests in october)
Honors/AP Courses: Honors English grades 9-11, AP English for grade 12
AP US History, scored a 5 on the exam
Honors Chemistry and Honors Physics
Honors French 4 and 5
Honors Geometry, Honors Algebra 2, Honors Pre-Calc, AP Calc for gr 12</p>
<p>(My schools offers a very limited selection of AP courses, I've taken a good majority of them)
-Also my school hasnt established our transcript gpa's yet </p>
<p>Sports: Varsity Field Hockey grades 10-12, expected to be captain this year
Skiing grades 9-12
Track Grade 10</p>
<p>EC's: Interact Volunteer Club: Grade 11, 12
Volunteer at the public library in my town, (saturdays during the summer)
Ski Club: Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
Helping Hands freshman immersion program: Grades 11, 12
Beta Club; 2008 to present
Volunteer for multiple town rotary club events
Very in involved in planning/setting up events for my grade/school</p>
<p>University of Connecticut</p>
<p>Uconn is a little to close. I want to go to a private college or university anyways.</p>
<p>^ what do you intend to major in at college?</p>
<p>possibly political science or pre-law</p>
<p>Ehhh, I don’t want to go to public state schools, but thanks anyways!</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m from Connecticut too, and UCONN would definitely be a safety. They will literally admit everyone from CT :)</p>
<p>May I ask why you don’t want to attend a public? The honors colleges at many publics are kind of like private colleges in themselves (i.e. Penn State’s Schreyer Honor College, UMD - Honors or even UCONN’s honors program) but still could be considered safeties. However, still, some honors programs might require slightly higher SAT scores.</p>
<p>I can’t really think of a lot of private safeties.</p>
<p>Schreyer Honor College is nowhere close to being a safety - it’s regarded as one if not the best honors college in the country</p>
<p>Northeastern University.</p>
<p>I’ve thought about northeastern, I think it’d be great to go to school in boston.</p>
<p>Private colleges are just my preference and I don’t want a large university experience</p>
<p>How about Drexel? Even Boston University I think you would most likely get in…two good private schools.</p>
<p>ithaca, fordham, bu</p>
<p>Do you need merit or financial aid?</p>
<p>if you tell us what sort of schools you’re looking at for matches/reaches, we can help find some similar schools for safeties. or at least what you’re looking for. i.e. size? urban/rural? etc</p>
<p>BU is not a good idea. It is 30,000+ students. If you aren’t looking for a huge school, then BU is not the way to go. </p>
<p>Syracuse University?
Union College?
University of Pittsburgh?
These generally aren’t “safeties”, but seeing as you are near the top of your class, I’d consider them safeties.</p>
<p>BU has a little over 18,000 undergrads which is similar to Pitt. Another point to note is that Pitt is considered a “state related” school not a private as the OP wants. If he doesn’t want a public school I doubt Pitt would be much of an interest.</p>
<p>Financial aid isn’t a huge issue or deciding factor for me. </p>
<p>Yea, I visted BU and I didn’t like it that much.
I’ve already visited Union and I’m defintely applying there. I’m considering syracuse too. Thanks!</p>
<p>If you liked Union–think about Skidmore, Franklin & Marshall, Muhlenberg, Ithaca, Dickinson and Susquehanna, most of which would be safe for you. Syracuse is quite large and snowy.</p>