Help finding match schools?

College Search & Selection
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<p>Hey everyone! There are plenty of safety and reach schools i'm applying to, but I can't seem to find really any match schools. </p>

<ol>
<li>I'll be going for visual arts, so a good art program is a must</li>
<li>Universities only</li>
<li>Preferably a marching band and/or equestrian team</li>
<li>Financial aid is definitely a concern</li>
</ol>

<p>I'd like schools that are on the smaller side, but large schools are okay.</p>

<p>My Safeties:
Clemson
University of Georgia</p>

<p>Reaches:
Cornell ED (applying directly to art department, 50% portfolio, 50% academics)
Yale, UChicago (interviewed and visited), UPenn, Northwestern (hopefully through questbridge)
UNC Chapel Hill</p>

<p>GPA ~3.75
ACT 27 (English 28, Math 21, Reading 29, Science 31, Writing 7) Plan to retake
No class ranks
I also go to a public residential boarding school for the arts, so I will be submitting a portfolio to all of these schools.</p>

<p>If you have any suggestions/chances/comments/all of the above, I really appreciate it! If I can help anyone out on their own thread I'd be glad to!</p>

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<p>Uh… How are you applying to Cornell ED but also questbridge match with Northwestern?</p>

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<p>And you better get your ACT up to above 30, it will really help your chances at your reaches. Maybe try URochester as a match, though you’ll probably need a higher test score.</p>

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<p>I don’t know why you think Clemson and UGA are safeties. Clemson accepts about 50% of those who apply and your scores are below the 50%ile. You line up marginally better at UGA but you will pay OOS costs. It looks as though your family cannot afford that.</p>

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<p>Clemson is a match school because I’m in-state and I’ve been working with the professors there on an open-source project by providing graphics and such. Not that it’s a sure thing, but I feel pretty confident about it. I’ll be applying through questbridge with all of those schools, but for regular decision and not through the match program.</p>

<p>I’ll look at URochester, thanks :)</p>

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<ul>
<li>All of those schools as in Northwestern, UChicago, Yale and Penn</li>
</ul>

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<p>Guessing you go to the Governor’s School Of Arts & Humanities in Greenville?</p>

<p>I would say Clemson would be a match for you then. Let me know if you have any questions about Clemson!!</p>

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<p>I do, yes (: I can live with Clemson being a match. I would like to go there if I don’t get into any of my reaches, hopefully this will work out. Thanks! I’ll keep that in mind if I have any questions! </p>

<p>Oh! If this helps anything, I got my AP scores in. Lang: 4 Human Geography: 5. Probably not, but eh.</p>

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<p>Any other suggestions? I guess I should be more worried about safeties now:</p>

<p>Safeties:
UGA</p>

<p>Matches:
Clemson
CMU-fine arts/design</p>

<p>Reaches:
Cornell ED
UNC Chapel Hill
Hopefully through QB- Yale, UChicago, Penn, Northwestern</p>

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<p>If you can’t afford UGA it’s not a safety. How would the cost for one of the regional USCs look?</p>

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<p>USC Upstate is most favorable to me out of the bunch, but i’m not sure how I feel about it. I don’t mind Winthrop at all, but the only thing would be the lack of a football team. I’ll probably apply to Winthrop even though, a lot of alumni from school seemed to like it there, I probably would too. I’m not sure, I just wish there were more options for safeties that I was really excited about :/</p>