<p>Okay, so I am looking for a school in the northeast, with around 5,000 undergraduate students. so far, i am loving tufts university and university of rochester, as well as Bates College (which is smaller), but I know that these are competitive schools, and would like to find a less competitive safety school.</p>
<p>I. Basic Stats:
Sex: female
Location: New York
rank: 8</p>
<p>II. GPA:
4.2 unweighted</p>
<p>III. Test Scores
2110: SAT
700: World History SAT II
(i took two more subject tests today)</p>
<p>IV. Extracurriculars
-3 years dance ensemble (per audition only)
-3 years dance classes
-2 years national honor society
-3 years figure skating
-1 year math league
-1 year YMCA leaders club
-3 years youth group/YG committee leader
- 1 year choir (in germany)
-1 year exchange student (in germany)
-10 hours/month of volunteer work in junior year</p>
<p>V. Achievements:
-AP Scholar with Honor
-National Latin Exam: Cum Laude
-Chemistry Achievement Award (a national award)
-National Honor Society
- High Honor Roll with Distinction (4 years)</p>
<p>VI. Working Experience:
-Bakery, 4 years</p>
<p>VII. AP Classes:
AP English Lang (5)
APUSH (5)
AP World history (4)
AP Biology (4)</p>
<p>I spent my senior year in germany, and completed my high school credits in three years. I didn't speak a word of german when I left, and now I'm almost fluent.</p>
<p>i want to study german and history, i would consider a catholic college, and i don’t want to be IN a city. that’s one of the many reasons i like tufts, because it’s right outside of boston. i definitely want an enclosed campus, you know?</p>
<p>i’m thinking a safety for me could be SUNY Binghamton, but I want to find another one</p>
<p>and Midwestmom: i don’t know those schools, i’ll have to look into them!</p>
<p>do you guys think that tufts and/or bates are reaches for me?</p>
<p>I think that you will get into URochester. I think it’s pretty close to a safety. It’s good to have another one also though. </p>
<p>American University meets your criteria to a T. If you want to go a little bigger, UDelaware and UVermont fit the bill for nice safeties. UPittsburgh might work too.</p>
<p>For most people, it is a good idea to have both a financial safety and an admissions safety.</p>
<p>???</p>
<p>All safeties should be BOTH admissions safeties AND financial safeties (what’s the point of having an “admissions safety” if it’s unaffordable??? ). </p>
<p>And, if money is an issues, it’s a good idea to have 2-3 safeties sot that if the other schools don’t work out (rejected or too expensive), then you’ll still have a choice…which is good for morale.</p>
<p>i would consider a catholic college, and i don’t want to be IN a city.</p>
<p>Do you mean that you don’t want to be in a big/major city? or do you mean no city at all and you want the school to be out if the middle of nowhere? (the risk for that is that you won’t have any off-campus places to go.) </p>
<p>I can understand your desire not to be in a major city, but even Tufts isn’t in the middle of nowhere…it’s in a residential area of a city.</p>
<p>What do you want in a school outside of academics?</p>
<p>i would put Bates as a match, not a reach. Be sure you interview, though! They clearly state that those who don’t interview may be at a disadvantage.</p>
<p>I think that you will get into URochester. I think it’s pretty close to a safety. It’s good to have another one also though.</p>
<p>the thing about univeristy of rochester is that my father works there, and i would get free tuition, which may put me at a disadvantage (as stated by my mother’s friend who works at grad admissions). we know someone who got into harvard, but got waitlisted at UR because her parent worked there</p>
<p>*Do you mean that you don’t want to be in a big/major city? or do you mean no city at all and you want the school to be out if the middle of nowhere? (the risk for that is that you won’t have any off-campus places to go.) *</p>
<p>i would like to be right outside of a city (tufts is perfect in that regard), or near one, but i don’t want a campus that’s integrated into the city</p>
<p>*
What do you want in a school outside of academics?
*</p>
<p>i want to have an amazing time. i want to have the opportunity to volunteer in the community, study abroad, have internships, and i really want to develop close relationships with my professors. i would like to prepare myself to get into a good graduate school as well</p>
<p>floydfan, can you explain the 4.2 GPA? How do you get a GPA over 4 if it is an unweighted GPA? (Maybe the top GPA is 4.33 because the school gives an A+ a 4.33 and an A- a 3.67?)</p>
<p>floydfan, can you explain the 4.2 GPA? How do you get a GPA over 4 if it is an unweighted GPA? (Maybe the top GPA is 4.33 because the school gives an A+ a 4.33 and an A- a 3.67?)</p>
<p>i think the scale is out of 5, and i believe it’s unweighted. i am going to talk to my guidance counselor this week, because i am a little confused myself as to how it works. but i did get all As and A+s in high school, i checked my transcript, and i don’t have any Bs</p>
<p>Hello floydfan, it’s always important to have a safety net especially when you’re trying to get into prestigious schools, I am going through the same process. </p>
<p>I would recommend that you look into the University of Maine at Orono, Maine’s flagship University. It’s a state school so the admissions requirements are significantly lower, but at the same time you get name recognition to go along with it. A girl who graduated from my H.S. 2 years ago is going there, it wasn’t her first choice but the school impressed her to the point that after she failed to get into Ann Arbor, she enrolled into Maine literally a week later. I checked and they have a German, and history program so it might be something you want to look into. As for other schools in that region, I can’t be of assistance because honestly I have no clue.</p>
<p>He loves Rochester. It seems odd they would not take the child of an employee. It is far and away his first choice.</p>
<p>they definitely take children of employees, but it can be a disadvantage because i would be tuition free. it doesn’t completely count me out or anything, but apparently some people who would have gotten into rochester didn’t because of that fact.</p>
<p>mom2collegekids: my GPA was out of 4.5, unweighted, and i had a 4.2</p>