<p>Safeties for someone with..</p>
<ul>
<li>an slightly above-average GPA</li>
<li>good SAT scores</li>
<li>good recommendations</li>
<li>good ECs</li>
<li>a lot of community service and work experience</li>
</ul>
<p>I'm looking at Puget Sound, Lewis & Clark, and Evergreen but I figure they're more like matches for me.</p>
<p>Any suggestions would be great!</p>
<p>Willamette.</p>
<p>^ No, I think that'd be a match, too.</p>
<p>But thanks!</p>
<p>How about [url=<a href="http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/profiles/generalinfo.asp?listing=1023669<ID=1%5DWhitworth%5B/url">http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/profiles/generalinfo.asp?listing=1023669<ID=1]Whitworth[/url</a>]?</p>
<p>My friend goes to Whitworth and LOVES it! Her name is Teby (kinda hard to miss her, haha) and she's an RA this year.</p>
<p>I second Linfield!</p>
<p>Evergreen looks like a safety, but how about posting some real stats?</p>
<p>Whitman?</p>
<p>It takes a special kind of student to attend Evergreen. D will be a junior this year. Evergreen has no academic requirements, no gen ed, and interdiscplinary programs that are usually team taught. Professors are passionate about teaching or they wouldn't be there. You really have to research the school and visit as well.</p>
<p>Heres a link to this years academic catalog so you can see what I mean.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.evergreen.edu/catalog/2005-06/%5B/url%5D">http://www.evergreen.edu/catalog/2005-06/</a></p>
<p>I wouldn't say Reed is a safety LAC - but the college will look beyond numbers and consider the applicant. If you really like the intellectual/rigorous atmosphere, apply to Reed!</p>
<p>Perhaps you can consider Seattle University as well? Its numbers are, according to the Princeton</a> Review:</p>
<p>Enrollment: 3,739
Average GPA: 3.52
Average SAT: 1132
Average ACT: 24 </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>University of Portland</p>
<p>I second the University of Portland - great school but if you're looking at Lewis & Clark the administration may be a little on the conservative side for you. </p>
<p>Other possibilities (not LACs though): Seattle University, the U of Oregon, Oregon State U and Washington State U. And, just over the California-Oregon State line, Humboldt State U in California might make a good safety.</p>
<p>Thank you all for the suggestions! I've looked at Reed and I just don't think it's the right place for me. I am liberal but by no means the "tree-hugging" kind. I also didn't know that Lewis & Clark is conservative...I thought it was just like Reed, except well maybe a bit more conservative. I think Evergreen would be a great place for me just because I love people who are different and doesn't necessarily fit into the "mold", if you know what I mean. So it is really nice to hear that it sounds like a safety.</p>
<p>But I'll definitely checked out ALL the suggestions. </p>
<p>I'll be off to Portland in a few days and as the plan goes so far, I'll be visiting Lewis & Clark, Puget Sound, and Evergreen. But I'll check out some of the other schools suggested here so maybe I can visit them too!</p>
<p>Thanks again, guys!</p>
<p>University of San Francisco, an excellent choice, it is 7,000 students, but still an amazing school with prime location. For many CCers, it would be a safety.</p>
<p>If it were possible to have aliberal Jesuit school, this is it. It is the perfect balnce if you want variety and no common mold. It is the most diverse school I know of its size.</p>
<p>Don't skip Willamette, out of all of them it was my D's favorite and they were the best with aid and merit!</p>
<p>How about University of Washington in Seattle? They have an honors program (requires own admission essay) where the students get lots of great benefits (living in the honors dorm, choosing classes earlier, and of course graduating with honors).</p>
<p>SoConfused, I may not have been clear: The administration at the University of Portland is on the conservative side. (The students at U of Portland are pretty middle of the road though). Lewis & Clark would definitely be classified as a more liberal school. It would be easy to do drive bys of Reed and U of Portland on the same day you visit Lewis & Clark to see if they appeals. </p>
<p>I agree with Arizonamom: Don't skip Willamette. They are somewhat less competitive in admissions than Lewis & Clark and University of Puget Sound so it may be closer to a safety for you than you think. It's only about 40 minutes south of Lewis & Clark. By the way, if you'll be staying near Lewis & Clark, we took their recommendation and stayed at the Lake Inn - great place and very convenient to campus!</p>
<p>Cre8tive, San Francisco is not exactly the Pacific Northwest. :)</p>
<p>wow there are so many suggestions! I think I'm going to call in Willamette and schedule an interview/visit. I am still iffy about Reed and U of Portland so I'll see about that.</p>
<p>University of Washington in Seattle sounds good too. But I'm only going to be in Seattle for 1 day and I'll be visiting Puget Sound and Evergreen, so I won't have time. But I'll definitely request some information from them.</p>
<p>U of San Fran. sounds nice. The student body is not too big and not too small. But I'd rather goto a school with no religious affiliation. lol</p>
<p>The religious affiliation does not overly inffluence the school, San Fran is so liberal that it eally cancels out a lot of the assumptions about attending a Jesuit Institution.</p>