looking for:
urban area or near a city
if in a city must have an enclosed campus
prefer northeast
lots of school spirit
prefer medium sized
no serious academic focus immediately
Schools I’m interested in:
Brown
Northwestern
BC
Georgetown
Northeastern
Uh, what are your stats?
Off the top of my head, I can only think of Columbia and BU. However, it might be helpful to use Naviance or the CC search tool.
4.6 W GPA and 30 ACT (first practice test, I plan on taking it until I raise by score by a few points)
What is your budget? What state are you from? Also, what is your unweighted GPA?
OP, you have opened a bunch of threads. I think it would be more helpful to you and to people responding if you stick with one.
I suggest you take a look at:
Duke
Columbia
Penn
Villanova
Wash U in St. Louis
Vanderbilt
Rice
Emory
American
GW
Fordham
USC
Tulane
University of Miami
Syracuse
Marquette
St. Louis U
What do you mean by no serious academic focus immediately? Do you mean you aren’t sure of your major? Or that you don’t want a serious academic environment?
Your ACT of 30 is going to put you out of the running for nearly all of those schools, unless you are hooked. Retake, or try the SAT. As for most of the schools listed in post 6, Duke, Columbia, Vandy, Penn, WUSTL, Rice, Emory and USC are going to be either very high reaches or out of reach. The other suggestions are good and worth investigating. You should consider some LACs, such as Franklin and Marshall, which has a lot of school spirit, and Union.
I have only seen BC, Brown and Northeastern of the schools you listed, and only BC has a true self-contained campus.
You will have to compromise. Your ideas for what you must have are not realistic. I assume you are a junior? If so, you have plenty of time to revise your list and come up with realistic match and safety schools. You need to compare your stats to the middle fifty percent of accepted students at your colleges of interest. As an example, your current test score of 30 is going to put you below the 25th percentile for most of the schools you originally listed. Look for colleges where your grades and test scores put you above the 50th percentile.
I think you’re using a bit too strict of a definition here if Brown doesn’t qualify. Reading between the lines, I think the OP is looking for a campus that has quads and centralization that feels like you are on a college campus more than a random city block (like NYU or BU). In that sense, you can make arguments for all three, though BC would be the clearest-cut.
OP, to expand on @Lindagaf, as an unhooked applicant focus on Target schools in which your current 30 ACT is in the top 25% of Accepted Students. Certainly include some Target schools that have slightly higher top-25% ACT scores so that your predicted 1-2 point increase will be accounted for. That said, none of those that you’ve listed could be considered a Target with a 32 ACT, and as an unhooked applicant Brown, Georgetown and Northwestern wouldn’t be realistic Reaches.
A couple days ago you said your practice ACT was 29. Have you taken an official test yet or are those held later in your junior year? What’s your budget? If your parents can’t pay much, make sure you add one of CT’s publics as a financial safety.
I’ve taken a practice ACT at school, I got a 29, -and got my results recently from one practice I took with the Princeton Review, 30. I will take an official test in spring. I will apply to CT’s publics an was looking for suggestions of other schools. I know that these schools are reaches with a 30 ACT but I’m a junior and have just started studying, I plan on taking the test until I raise my score by a few points.
@ceoh1234 I’d just like to say that I got a 30 ACT my junior year and a lot of people saying negative things about your ACT might be discouraging. However, I got a 34 ACT my third time, it just takes a little patience and practice. Hopefully, you’ll get a higher ACT and it’ll definitely open up more doors for you.
What’s your budget? The amount your parents are willing to pay makes a difference.
@Lindagaf by “no serious academic focus immeadiately” i meant that i am not sure about my major and would prefer a school where I don’t have to apply into a specific program within the school for freshman year, not that I was not looking for serious academics.
@period thank you!