<p>PA: 3.9
Weight GPA: 4.7
ACT Without Superscore: 29
ACt With Superscore:30
I am retaking and think I can get at least 31, if not a bit higher.</p>
<p>SAT II
Us history: 750
Literature: 740</p>
<p>AP test
US: 5
Lang: 5
Euro:5
I'm also taking stats and world history, for a total of five aps and many other honors level courses. </p>
<p>ECs
Student council vice president
Student council member for two years
National Honor Society member
PeaceJam member
PeaceJam leader/president
Internship with a non-profit mental health service
Fencer (for the last seven years)- with several local awards, etc
Award winning filmmaker (best film, best documentary at local festivals and a few national ones as well)
Philosophy club member
National Geographic Internship
National History Day (for seven years)- I've won top ten in Nationals and First and Second at the state level
Trip to Kenya and Ghana funded entirely by the State Department, rigorous application process. Thousands applied and 36 were chosen.
Charity work in Cambodia
Volunteer at an animal shelter
President of an all female book club
World traveller</p>
<p>I'm having trouble finding safeties? and matches? I don't know what a reach is for me versus a match. My college counselor seems to think I couldn't get into any good liberal arts school (Bowdoin, Middlebury, etc) I'm dying for Brown or Columbia but those are reaches right? Help!</p>
<p>Middlebury and Bowdoin are definitely reaches. If you like LACs, you should look at slightly less selective schools. Grinnell, Bates, St. Olaf, etc. are the kind of schools I would call matches. Beloit isn’t quite a safety but would be a very good bet for your stats. Miami University isn’t an LAC but it has excellent undergrad teaching so I would recommend it to you if you like that aspect of LACs, and it would probably be a decent safety for you.</p>
<p>That said, you have to remember there are admissions safeties and financial safeties. Make sure you have a school that is both. I don’t know what your finances look like, but remember to consider the cost while you’re picking out safeties.</p>
<p>* My college counselor seems to think I couldn’t get into any good liberal arts school (Bowdoin, Middlebury, etc) I’m dying for Brown or Columbia but those are reaches right? Help! *</p>
<p>Yes, those are high reaches with your current test scores. Unless you’re a URM or have some special hook those schools are unlikely.</p>
<p>Safety schools often don’t give much financial aid. So, to recommend safeties, we need to know how much your family will pay. If you don’t know, then ask them.</p>
<p>A school isn’t a safety if you’re not 100% sure all costs are covered thru **assured **aid, family funds, and small fed student loans.</p>
<p>I’m not reading what everyone else is reading, apparently. I see 5s and 750s and 3.9 and 4.7. Try taking the SAT in addition to retaking the ACT - I hear some kids do better in different tests. Many of the best LACs are reaches for everyone because they’re so popular.</p>
<p>Colo College is not a safety, but it’s a good LAC (with an odd calendar) close to home (from what you said in another thread).</p>
<p>Also curious - what do you think you might major in? Can/will your parents pay what the FAFSA 4Caster thinks they can pay?</p>
<p>I can pay full ride if I need to. I have 100,000 dollars in my college fund but that won’t quite cover most of these schools. But I have means…
I will retake the act in october.
also, I am a double legacy at colorado college. Don’t know if that means anything… I think my Grandfather is on the board there or something</p>
<p>Alumni relation is considered at Col College so that would help you. Maybe Denison, College of Wooster, Smith (if you’re a female, particularly since they are ACT optional).</p>
<p>I would definitely look at the selective women’s colleges (Mount Holyoke, Smith, Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Wellesley, Scripps) - I think you would be very interested in what they have to offer, and they would be very interested in you.</p>
<p>You might also want to have a look at colleges like Ursinus, Juniata, Gettysburg, Goucher, Providence College, Agnes Scott, etc.</p>
<p>NYU cannot be a safety for any student who needs significant financial aid (and $100,000 is nowhere near enough to pay list price for four years). It has a reputation for offering insufficient financial aid to needy students, resulting in very large student loans for those who do attend.</p>
<p>Therefore, it is a reach at best for needy students.</p>
<p>Boston College isn’t a safety for a lot of people these days - I’m not sure why (at all!) but applications have skyrocketed and the % admission has gone down (to 31% according to US News).</p>
99.9+% of families in the US do need help paying $53K/year for college. The OP has $100K set aside but that would only last two years. How do you propose he pay the other two?</p>
<p>As the OP said, he can cover full ride. While you made some poor life choices, the OP’s parents did not and can clearly afford to cover tuition. </p>
<p>And your percentage about US families is both wrong and insulting. Just because you couldn’t pay for your kid’s education, doesn’t mean 99.9+% of families can’t do so. That is insulting to those who have worked hard and can afford to send their kids to top schools. Some of us having savings and investments.</p>
<p>cwinche,
Are you open to West Coast schools? There are some excellent schools in your range that you might want to consider. Based on your college fund, you can take a look at Chapman University. They have a great need-blind merit scholarship program. Best of luck!</p>