Help me find a safety-match/safety

College Search & Selection
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<p>I don't want to post my stats all over again, so I'll just tell you:</p>

<p>Far reaches:
Columbia
UPenn
Duke
Rice</p>

<p>Reaches:
Georgetown
WUSTL
UMich (OOS)
Emory
Tufts</p>

<p>Matches:
College of the Holy Cross
NYU
Pepperdine ???
UWisc-Madison</p>

<p>Safeties:
U. Miami ???
Penn State ???</p>

<p>I hope you see where I stand now. I want more match, safety-match, and safety schools that are STRONG IN BIOLOGY/PREMEDICAL SCIENCES. Many of the schools I have there (especially ones with ???) are merely placeholders and have arrived there through superficial research. I don't like small (<2000) schools, but have no other real preference. Please help me. Thanks for your time.</p>

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<p>Edit: I was just doing some intense searching in CC through the search function, and have found some interesting threads, including this one about Umass Amherst:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=78061&highlight=colleges+strong+science%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=78061&highlight=colleges+strong+science&lt;/a>
I'm a MA resident, and was always quick to diss Umass Amherst. What do you guys think of UConn?</p>

<p>Also I found this on another thread:</p>

<p>"One of the top LAC's for sciences is Carleton - they have an outstanding reputation among graduate schools. Another school worth looking at is Rice University in Texas. Although not quite an LAC, it is small enough to feel like one and is top notch for all sciences. </p>

<p>Other possibilities not already mentioned who are usually listed among the top science prgrams(esp. for bio): Haverford (PA), Hamilton (NY), Macalester (Minn), Grinnell(Iowa), Lawrence University(Wisc), Colgate(NY), Dickinson(PA), Davidson(NC), Franklin and Marshall C.(PA), Gettysburg (PA), Bates (ME), Bowdoin (ME), Bucknell (PA), Lafayette (PA), Rhodes College(Tn,
Union (NY)"</p>

<p>Yes, so I'm basically saying that I answered my own question. But does anyone have anything to add to this? I would need to narrow the list down (obviously).</p>

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<p>Duke, Tufts, and Holy Cross each have very strong pre-med programs.</p>

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<p>Because I love my school and always tell people they should go there i'm going to tell you to look into University of Pittsburgh. You shouldn't have that hard of a time getting in and it's not a small school at all. I completely understand your hatred of UMass Amherst though. Why is it that all parents of mass kids think that it's so amazing. ok well i also found this list of med schools that are members of the aamc. </p>

<p><a href="http://services.aamc.org/memberlistings/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.search&search_type=MS&wildcard_criteria=&state_criteria=CNT%3AUSA&image=Search%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://services.aamc.org/memberlistings/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.search&search_type=MS&wildcard_criteria=&state_criteria=CNT%3AUSA&image=Search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>If you're willing to venture out how about Tulane, U Georgia, U Richmond or Wake?</p>

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<p>I'm Asian, and judging by the homogeneity of U Richmond and Wake, I had decided that those schools weren't for me. It's not that I want an Asian-rich school - in fact, the contrary. I have more white friends than Asian; it's just that I fear the consevatism of many of the students there.. conservative to a point where they refuse to associate with/befriend Asian people?</p>

<p>I've read about people who transfered out of places like William and Mary simply because of the utter conservatism of the students. (I read that here, on CC, I think.)</p>