Can you help me find match schools with highly regarded economics departments please!

College Search & Selection
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<p>Hi all. After researching colleges to apply too, I feel that I am only attracted to so called safety and reach schools. I am nearly positive that I want to major in economics and the one school I know that I will apply to is UW Madison. My GPA is 3.98--the one B was in the hardest class in the school-- and my ACT is 31, which I will retake. My main EC is wrestling, which I have dedicated myself to all throughout high school and I am now captain of the team, even though I only started freshman year. I did volunteer work and lived in Paraguay for 6 weeks this summer, and while it was an amazing experience, I feel that it doesn't set me apart from other applicants. I would be more than happy to answer any of your questions, but I would like to hear recommendations of match to low reach schools with a strong Econ department.</p>

<p>Thanks,
J</p>

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<p>Excuse me, how to i post a new thread?
i’m new to this website</p>

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<p>Go to the forum in which you want to make your post and in the upper left hand corner there should be a button which says start new thread</p>

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<p>Chicago, Northwestern and Michigan come to mind. All have Top 10 level econ as does UW. Of course there is always UCB and some east coast schools.</p>

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<p>What can your family afford? What is your home state?</p>

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<p>We currently have 60,000 guaranteed and could afford a little more, but not much. My home state is Wisconsin, which is why it makes so much sense to go there (it doesn’t hurt that it is a top notch school), but I would like to have 2 or 3 more options</p>

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<p>I don’t know exactly what chance to say you have at these, but you could also apply to MIT and Stanford and see what happens.</p>

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<p>What are the other schools in which you are interested?</p>

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<p>Hendrix, Lawrence, middlebury, WUSTL, stanford</p>

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<p>Babson has a fantastic entrepreneurial program which is a bit different from Economics but still… it would be worth looking into.</p>

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<p>Abson looks interesting but I am more looking into studying the economics of developing countries</p>

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<p>Maybe Kenyon, Oberlin, Reed?</p>