Can you help me with picking some Safties, Matches & Reaches?

College Search & Selection
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<p>Gender: F
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Location: DC & Maryland, But Residency in Maryland priority
College Class Year: 2014, So graduating May 2010
High School: Public
High School Type: Up & Coming, Definitely an Urban not well ranked school
Will apply for financial aid: No, Income > $200,000
Legacy: University of Maryland- Mother</p>

<p>College requirements- > 15,000 People, A football team</p>

<p>Academics:</p>

<p>GPA - Unweighted: urrrh, school doesn't do this but about.. 3.30 ?
GPA - Weighted: 3.65
Class Rank: top 35%
Class Size: 348
Honors classes- 13
AP- 4</p>

<p>Scores:</p>

<p>SAT I Math: 620
SAT I Critical Reading: 540
SAT I Writing: 560
SAT I Combined: 1720
^ Taking again on Nov 7th</p>

<p>ACT: 26 (took again, awaiting scores)</p>

<p>AP Scores:
Psychology (4); Lang & Comp + Pol Sci + Stat & Prob (All Pending)</p>

<p>Extrassss:
*Internship-12th grade- 15 hours per week/August 1, 2009-May 31,2010 (Police Department, Learning the Enforcement & Law sides of it and doing research on old cases for them, Training help also 1 of 2 in the county selected)</p>

<p>*Language Tutor- 11th grade- 8 hours per week/12 weeks per year (While leaving in Italy, helped to tutor the Italians in english language & culture</p>

<p><em>Varsity Cheerleading Football & Basketball *want to continue in College IF i can</em> (except 12th grade football due to severely broken hand)- 9 through 12th grade- 10 hours per week/22 weeks per year (11th grade Captain)</p>

<p>*Competition Cheerleading - 9 through 12th grade- 8 hours per week/40 weeks per year (do a lot of community service with them: Were also ranked national and have won many National & State competitions)</p>

<p>*Competitive Figure Skating (hoping to continue in college)- 9 through 12th grade- 10 hours per week/20 weeks per year (Training a the local rink, and have place State & Nation wide)</p>

<p>Community Service:
*Cheerleading Coach- 12th grade- 4 hours per week/35 weeks per year (At the cheerleading gym where I cheer, I coach along side two others a team of 3 to 5 year olds) </p>

<p>*Cheerleading Camps- 9 through 12th grade- 6 hours per camp/5 camps per year Various sponsored camps we helped to run & work for younger kids, and kids coming into high school)</p>

<p>*MS Walks- 9 through 11th grade- 5 hours per walk/2 walks per year (With my cheerleading team, we helped to run them, get people signed in, pass out numbers, and hand out medals and food)</p>

<p>*Soup Kitchen- 9 through 11th grade- 3 hours per week/5 weeks per year (At the local soup kitchen, we helped to prepare and serve food)</p>

<p>*Environmental help, Earth day- 9 through 10th grade- 5 hours per week/1 week per year (on earth day, we would go out and plant trees and flowers in community parks)</p>

<p>Honors and awards:
Honor roll 9-12th grade
Academic letter 9-12th grade
Athletic achievement 9-12th grade
State Scholar 9-12th grade
Graduating with Honors</p>

<p>I've looked into (not nec. applying, just scoped out)-
Ohio State
University of Maryland-Applied already
Penn State
Syracuse
Michigan
Wisconsin
Washington
Colorado
Alabama- Applied already
Minnesota
Auburn
Oklahoma
Tenn.
Towson
Connecticut</p>

<p>HELP?!</p>

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<p>Do you know what you’d like to major in?</p>

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<p>The University of Alabama [The</a> University of Alabama](<a href=“Page Not Found | The University of Alabama”>http://www.ua.edu/)</p>

<p>Great football :slight_smile: Great academics…Gorgeous campus. Awesome dorms!!</p>

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<p>You have some good choices–although Michigan is a reach.
But what do you want other than football team? Pitt is fine urban school with good football; Kansas is much more rural, and so on. Your picks have every kind of environment; location; region; etc–does none of it matter?</p>

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<p>Not really, i enjoy country but i enjoy urban too. Im used to it all I live in DC and a rural part of Maryland. and im used to being far away (Lived in Italy) and such i just want something different then where im from, and such my parents don’t really have any restrictions on where i can go and such. Im more so a cold weather person but i do like hot weather and i liked Alabama & Auburn and such… haha sorry for the story book
Yeah Michigan is a Massive stretch but i feel like if i dont try ill regret it ya know?</p>

<p>OH if it helps i wanna major in something like Poli Sci, International Relations/Affairs, global studies etc… along those lines & Spanish.</p>

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<p>Do you think I have any chances? </p>

<p>and to mom2collegekids- I loved Alabama i just don’t know how id do in the hot weather, without ice skating and snow. haha but i liked the campus!</p>

<p>and Erin’s dad, ill edit, haha sorry!</p>

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<p>American U is great in those areas and your stats fit, but it doesn’t have the football vibe like the other schools you are considering.</p>

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<p>Amanda…</p>

<p>Well, it’s not hot most of the school year :slight_smile: …lots of days of moderate temps with pretty blue skies and fluffy white clouds. But, if you have a yearning for some mountains and snow, you can spend a weekend in Tenn - not too far away - the Smokies are beautiful!! skiing there, too.</p>

<p>Look at it this way…on a campus with moderate temps, you won’t have to be trekking across a college-sized campus in freezing temps throughout the winter months. Altho, UA will have a small number of very cold days. And, UA did get a small bit of snow last winter…but it was gone by the afternoon…It was fun for the kids.</p>

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<p>go for Clemson University, the weather isn’t bad at all, it’s actually quite nice in the fall now, only August and September will be really hot months.</p>

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<p>Erin’s dad- I live in DC, and am NOT a fan of American ha. footballs something I definitely want at my future school</p>

<p>Mom2coll- I know i gotta think about it, It’ll be hard to part with my snow, and my hope of continuing ice skating like i could at some other schools that have teams and stuff haha</p>

<p>Pierre- I looked into applying there, but opted against it. haha what i had said above or meant, was that i enjoy the cold weather</p>

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<p>I just noticed this but the University of Pittsburgh isn’t on your list</p>

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<p>haha woops i forgot to write itm, Ive already started applying there</p>

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<p>Oh…ice skating! fun! :)</p>

<p>Is this something you want to do as a sport or hobby? (I missed this before on your first post.)</p>

<p>Wow…which schools have skating teams?</p>

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<p>haha well i skate as a sport and as a hobby, haha it’s okay people usually look at it as a hobby, but i’ve actually competed national & state wide and placed well… i would LOVE to continue in college if i could but i doubt ill get into a college that has it…</p>

<p>the colleges that I like that have it are…although some are synrco teams… (Syracuse, University of maryland, Penn State, Ohio State, Colorado, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota)
BUT i dont think i have any chances really… haha</p>

<p>where do you think i have a chance, even if it being a reach?</p>

<p>thank you So much! haha</p>

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<p>Bump, Rump, haha where do i have a chance do you think?</p>

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<p>forr realllz, haha I have no clue</p>