<p>Just be aware that there are a few merit awards (highly competitive, but you never know) at BU that require application earlier than the RD deadline. I think the date for many of those is Dec. 1, and that is a common date at many other schools as well. Just check their websites.</p>
<p>If I’m able to make a trip to Boston work with my schedule, would visiting before the end of October be ideal?</p>
<p>Great time to go. Classes in full swing, get a feel for fall weather, etc. Also gives you plenty of time to decide if it’s for you and get the essays ready to go.</p>
<p>And from what I found online, it looks like at least one or two of the Boston schools I’m considering waive the application fee for students who have visited, which is an added incentive for me to go and tour them.</p>
<p>For your interests the only three schools that I would recommend are UMass Boston, BU, and Brandeis. All three have strong archaeology departments. I can’t speak to what your chances are of getting in, however.</p>
<p>I’m going to pass on UMass because I am oos, but I am trying to plan weekend visits to BU and Brandeis, and I will probably apply after visiting if I like the campuses as much as I like the schools on paper. </p>
<p>Check out Northeastern as well. BC may be too $$ and a reach.</p>
<p>I got a 2060 on my November SAT. If I retake the SAT in November to raise my 580 math score, and take SAT IIs in December, should I apply to Wellesley or Tufts?</p>
<p>Two totally different schools - they aren’t compared much since they tend to appeal to two different groups of people. To choose between the two, you’d should really go by personal preference.</p>
<p>Yeah, I honestly do not know a lot about either, but they were suggested earlier to me on this thread, and I didn’t even look at them because my older SAT was rather limiting and I wasn’t expecting to do better, and now all I have to do is raise my math score.</p>
<p>You’ll be in the area, is there a reason you can’t add them to your Boston tour? You normally can see two schools in a day and do it well, so it would take an extra day.</p>
<p>If you get a 2130+, I’d say that it’s worthwhile to apply to Tufts. Even with slightly below a 2100, it’s not unreasonable. However, that doesn’t mean it will be easy.Your CR and writing scores are only a little bit above the average at Tufts, but your Math score is far below average. I’d say that to be competitive, you’d probably need at least a 650-690 on the Math. While colleges may be willing to overlook a single bad section if an applicant is otherwise supremely well qualified, I don’t think your other scores are quite strong enough to overcome a huge disparity in math.</p>
<p>Another thing is that interest is VERY important at Tufts. Don’t just randomly decide you’re going to apply there – admissions will be able to see through that and they don’t really look highly upon that. I know people who were extremely well qualified to get in that were rejected because Tufts didn’t feel that they would attend if they had accepted them. Your score should make you extremely qualified to get into Brandeis and Northeastern however. Good luck!</p>
<p>My math score should go up, hopefully at least 100 points, because I’m enlisting my sophomore geometry teacher as a tutor, and he has an odd yet helpful obsession with the sat math section.</p>
<p>Hopefully I’ll be able to tour soon so I can get a better idea of Tufts and other schools in the area.</p>