<p>Ok and also, do you think that Boston College would be a match for me???</p>
<p>@stewta4: It depends on what you want out of college. I don’t remember if you mentioned the studies you want to pursue in college.
If you’re looking at Boston College only because your academic profile matches, then you have some more research to do. There are differences among colleges in terms of student body, campus, environment, religious affiliation, the general atmosphere (i.e. your “gut” feeling), available majors and concentrations, athletics, etc. </p>
<p>Set your preferences first.</p>
<p>Either biology(and most likely pre-med) or business. I really can’t decide yet and don’t plan on it until I have taken college level courses in both. I like BC too because I’m Catholic, and it has the ideal undergrad size for me, about 10,000.</p>
<p>Then go ahead and put Boston College on your list. It’s just more work for you, and that’s not my problem. 
Have you looked at Notre Dame? The Mendoza School of Business seems to be highly praised.</p>
<p>bumppppppppp</p>
<p>Strong academics…good grades, decent ACT score. Colleges take the rigor of your course load in the context of their school, so if you don’t have all APs, you should be fine. Now ECs are a little weaker, but, as you explained, it’s cuz you moved. Be sure to explain that. And it’s impressive that you had leadership even before you moved. You’re in at Mich and obv. your safeties. Georgetown a slight reach, ivies are reaches. Duke, tough, but shine passion through your ECs. That’s the main thing I don’t see w/ your ECs.</p>
<p>My chance thread:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1162768-chance-some-ivies-top-schools-chancebacks.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1162768-chance-some-ivies-top-schools-chancebacks.html</a></p>
<p>Thanks!
So do you think Duke would be more difficult than the Ivies? I’m not extremely interested in either of the ivies, but I really love Duke. Do you think being from Michigan could help at Duke because they receive their least amount of applicants from the Midwest?
What about Boston College and Northwestern??? and I will chance you back, one sec.</p>
<p>I think your chances for all these schools are good. If not good then great. Your grades/scores/rank is amazing. Don’t retake the SAT btw. I would be surprised if you got rejected from any of these schools…except maybe Ivy, which is basically like a lottery if you ask me.</p>
<p>Thank you! any other thoughts?</p>
<p>Neither Johns Hopkins nor Purdue is a safety for you. Purdue is likely a low match, but Johns Hopkins is a low reach.</p>
<p>@born2dance94
John Hopkins wasn’t listed as a safety, although I could see how you would think that haha, I didn’t mean for it to be, it just ended up on the same line as the safeties.
And I don’t care what you think but Purdue is a safety for me…I will not be applying to the engineering school, which is their best program. I’m sure that if I can get into Michigan, the best public Big Ten by far, I will be fine at non-engineering Purdue. Purdue’s average ACT score is a 26 and the average GPA is a 3.5. 25% of the enrolling freshman had a 23 or LESS on their ACT. I have a 4.0 and a 34 and my school is much harder than the average small town midwest school, where a large number of their applicants come from. Purdues acceptance rate is 72%. I hope you were thinking of the wrong college.</p>
<p>Wow, your stats are good. I think you have an awesome chance at all of these schools</p>
<p>Oh sorry, you’re right about Purdue. I mistook it for a different school. My b. But yeah it sounded like you meant JHU was a safety. Lol glad to know it was just a visual thing.</p>
<p>Yeah I actually thought that when I reread it too. haha its no problem.</p>
<p>bumppppp. I have been doing a ton of research the past week and I think I have narrowed down my list somewhat and added a few:
Safeties:
University of Wisconsin-Madison(double legacy;both parents went there)
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor(In-State)
Maybe I would apply to Penn State, but I’m pretty sure there is close to zero chance that I would get rejected at both of the first two.</p>
<p>My reach/match schools I would still like any chancing opinions on would be:
Duke
Emory
Washington U. at St. Louis
Maybe Northwestern…, Idk when I visited I didn’t really get a good feeling.
Boston College(I’m hoping that out of my private schools this would be a high match)</p>
<p>BC- high match
Duke- reach (mid/a bit high)
Emory- low reach/relatively high match
WUSTL- reach (mid/a bit highish)
Northwestern- reach</p>
<p>Hey everyone. If this changes anything, I got my subject test results:
Biology M-790
Math Level 1-730</p>
<p>I’m happy with Bio, even tho Ik i could have gotten an 800, IK exactly which problem I got wrong and it was a pretty easy one/stupid mistake.</p>
<p>Math I’m not super mad about, but I am kind of disapointed. I didn’t study at all for math 1 because I figured I would be okay without studying, It was only level 1 instead of level 2, figured it would be really easy (rookie mistake) and also the tests were during my final exam week so I was busy. </p>
<p>So a couple questions:</p>
<p>Since I am sending the ACT with writing at most schools I wouldn’t be required to send these…would these two scores help me or hurt me at my schools do you think? I would figure that Bio would help but math would hurt, would it be worth it to send these scores, as they are, to schools like WUSTL, Emory and Duke?</p>
<p>I am strongly considering retaking Math Level 1 and also taking Math Level 2 this fall, lets say I get an 800 on Math 2(its heavily weighted), would I be allowed to only send math 2 and bio? Or would I automatically have to send all three?</p>
<p>If I retook math 1 and scored higher, 760+ is where I’d feel comfortable sending it, could I only send the 760 score or would they also see the 730? Do colleges not like it if you retake subject tests?
thanks! srry for all the questions</p>