Can someone help me find matches and safeties?

College Search & Selection
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<p>I'm looking to go into Political Science/Gov't and maybe double major with Economics or History. I'm trying to avoid huge schools and the west coast. My current college list is:
Georgetow n
GWU
American
Johns Hopkins
Emory
WU-STL</p>

<p>Competitve private school
No ranking, but would guess top 100%
UW GPA: 3.79</p>

<p>I have taken the most difficult courseload except for an AP Science this past year. I have taken AP Euro (5), AP USH (expecting 5), AP US Gov (expecting 5), AP AB Calc (expecting 4 or 5). Next year I'll be taking AP Economics, AP French Lang, AP Bio, and AP BC.</p>

<p>ACT: 34 in one sitting (35 superscored)
SAT II US History: 800
Math II and French planned for next year</p>

<p>EC during Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior Year:
Soccer and Baseball 3 years
Piano 3 years
Volunteering at my temple: a few times per year
self study AP Gov
President of Campus Republicans:revived 11th grade, member 9 and 10
Model UN 3 years
School French Honor Society</p>

<p>Other:
B in Physics 2nd sem Junior year
weak EC as seen above
will have a good rec from my AP US teacher
White male
also looking for merit money</p>

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<p>Remove GWU and American, add Vandy, UNC, UVA</p>

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<p>Might look at Holy Cross-good combination of academics and athletics. Holy Cross is a smaller version of Georgetown-strong relationship between 2 schools. HC is SAT optional and easier to get into than Gtown but HC has good political science department and several Congressmen among its alumni.</p>

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<p>why remove GWU?</p>

<p>Thank you for the suggestions everyone. Does anyone else have any safeties or matches?</p>

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<p>can anybody else help?</p>

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<p>American could be a match-safety. Vanderbilt sounds like a good idea. A safety with Merit Aid could be Drew University in Madison, NJ.</p>

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<p>Based on the schools you mentioned, I would also look at Cornell and Northwestern as slight reaches.</p>