<p>Thank you! That's definitely encouraging. You seem to be very knowledgeable slipper. I think I'll also be applying to Dartmouth, your alma mater (Iknow because I browse the Darmouth board)</p>
<p>Thanks! Yeah, plenty of crazy fun road trips, lol, in college means you sort of learn something along the way. Transferring teaches you alot too. And, yeah, Dartmouth's awesome.</p>
<p>Ignoring West Coast schools (and Reed was one that came to mind reading your post), I'd look at the following:</p>
<p>Reasonable Reaches: Washington University, Swarthmore (visit)
Solid matches: Johns Hopkins, Haverford (not party HQ but viable), Macalester, Carleton (access to Minneapolis)
Safeties: Bard, Boston University (too big?? too close to home??)</p>
<p>Yea, no to BU because I don't want an urban campus. I'm interested in WashU and Haverford. Thanks a lot reidm</p>
<p>Maybe I missed it but what is your GPA? </p>
<p>I personally would hesitate to call schools like Vassar, Rice, Brown, and U of Chicago safeties for anyone. Some that would be closer to safeties for you, assuming a good GPA, include: Wheaton in Mass, Goucher in Maryland, Trinity in CT, and Sarah Lawrence outside of NYC. I also like the suggeston of Skidmore.</p>
<p>carolyn--you misread some of the posts. I ABSOLUTELY don't think any of those schools are safeties. I am not one to get overconfident, I tend to be very pessemistic if anything. While this is a thread about safties, we ended up talking about what schools I most want to go to, and some that would be good "safer-reaches" or matches. My GPA is about 3.9, maybe 3.88, I'm not 100% sure. Believe me, I know that schools like Brown, Rice, and Chicago are reaches for anyone. Thanks for those suggestions</p>
<p>about your schedule. at my school, if one were to have that schedule it would be really bad (as probably 5% of our class has 4+ AP classes jr yr).</p>
<p>However, I was led to believe that there aren't too many APs offered, & you can't take very many.</p>
<p>If 5% of the kids in your class are taking 4+ APs jr yr, & you have 1, than it could be a problem. It is all relative to your school...if you have close to the hardest schedule, it won't matter a bit.</p>
<p>Some schools would be CMU (HS&S), Carolyn's list, Emory (match), Case Western, Vanderbilt, Tulane, UMiami, Macalester (though a LAC), American, GW.</p>
<p>In terms of student body, Trinity is rather preppy, while Sarah Lawrence is on the other end of the scale. Skidmore might be more middle of the road for you. Is NYU too cosmo?</p>
<p>Don't overlook U of Rochester. It meets many of your criteria. Schools that are popular with Long Island kids who have stats similar to you and are looking for "Safety schools" apply to Tulane-Case Western- U of R. All these schools have been generous with merit aid. Based on what I read on these boards, Rice also sounds good.</p>
<p>You might want to look at Emory, Tulane and Vanderbilt.</p>
<p>Tufts might be a good match for you.*</p>
<p>However, I could have sworn that Brown was EA.</p>
<p>It was till I believe four years ago, now its ED.</p>
<p>Thank you all for being so helpful! I definitely have gotten some good ideas. I'm almost definitely gonna apply to Tufts, and I will look into Rochester. Might be alittle to isolated though...I'm not a big upstate New York fan. Stalimbark--about my course schedule: Junior year, there there are 3 APs offered, but almost no one does 3. There are definitely kids with harder schedules though, that's deifnitely my one regret with all of this. The problem is that I was not a serious student freshman year, so I made bad course choices, so I wasn't on the right track to end up in those APs, and it'snearly impossible to switch up at my school:( My test scores and GPA are definitely soem of the highest at my school, so hopefully that will help a little:(</p>
<p>silly brown, no more incentive to play yield rates...I think they're moving towards need blind admissions, but only a handful of schools can offer that.</p>
<p>Hi again. Rochester is a pretty nice city. Syracuse on the other hand is not such a nice city. I'm from NYC/LI area and went to school upstate in Oswego- so I understand about not being a big fan of upstate NY. A lot of the towns are pretty dreary. But Rochester really is better than most places upstate. Good luck.</p>