<p>Please help me find some safety school! So far I have OSU and my state university. I'm looking for a more urban area than rural, but suburban is fine. Also a I would like a really strong honors program. My reaches are places like Georgetown and UNC Chapel Hill (OOS). </p>
<p>Rank: 18/~250 so top ten percent
GPA: 3.78 uw/4.51 w
SAT: 2140 770CR/740W/630M
ACT: 32 C (36 R, 35 E, 28 M, 28 S)
SAT II: World History- 720, US History- 770, Lit- 760
AP World: 4
AP USH: 5
AP Bio: 5
AP Eng: 5 </p>
<p>EC:
Cross-Country: varsity for the last three years, captain jr. year and will be senior year as well, a few minor awards but i'm not good enough to run at college or anything
Track: 2 years on varsity
Indoor track: one year
School newspaper: Two years, copy editor jr. year, assistant editor senior year
NFTY: Jewish youth group, two years
Key club: Two years, will be treasurer senior year, chairmen of district public relations committee
10 years Jewish Sunday school, teachers assistant jr. year
I was also page for the state legislature.
National merit commended, probably semi-finalist
AP scholar with honor now.</p>
<p>This summer: I have a part time job and will be teaching people of all ages how to read (literacy tutor)</p>
<p>yeah i have been looking into it. the only drawback is where penn state is located. the town is pretty small and isolate right? or am i totally wrong?</p>
<p>i'm sorry i feel like i am bashing everyone's good ideas but... american was actually my main safety until i visited. there was just something i did not like about it. i couldn't put my finger on it, but i could not see myself there. it was strange.</p>
<p>at penn state, the university is like the town because of its size. you'll have all you want on campus. But if you like pennsylvania, what about like Villanova or Dickinson as a safety. </p>
<p>Also, these are kind of rural but close to UNC: Elon and Wake Forest</p>
<p>i'm looking for a larger school as opposed to smaller. thanks for all of your suggestions! do you really think that wake forest and brandeis are safeties? that is certainly flattering haha.</p>
<p>Brandeis is harder to get into than it used to be, but - just based on your stats - you seem to be a fit. (But I guess I wouldn't say it's a safety....)</p>
<p>UMass-Amherst would be a safety for you. It's not in a city, but the area is vibrant and you can take courses at the others of the 5 colleges consortium (Amherst college, Smith, Mt. Holyoke, Hampshire), all of which are accessible by shuttle bus. And UMass has an honors college.</p>
<p>What are you looking for in terms of programs, region, size, style, sports, etc.?</p>
<p>--Urban + maybe honors + IDK</p>
<p>Emory - not a safety by itself, but with Oxford College, you get a top 20 school at a safety entry. In Atlanta for you.
'Nova
Fordham - NYC, free tuition if you are a NMS finalist
Pitt
Boston U and BC - BC isn't a safety but another good option, and BU is a solid school</p>
<p>Thanks everyone! Villanova is a great idea, as are the others! I am applying to Michigan, but i thought it was more of a match? Should i move it to a safety? haha someone over on the emory board just implied that my math score is too low to get in there at all... college admissions is weird.</p>
<p>I'm in the honors program at Notre Dame, had small classes freshman year, (ie. intro philo and humanities with 19 students each, calc 3 with 8 students), special road trips just for honors students, better leverage in finaid and a private lounge with free food for honors students. I too was a cross country runner and newspaper writer, I am a Christian but there is a sizeable group of Jewish professors at ND and it is a midsize school (8K UGs)located in a midsize city.</p>