Help me find schools!

College Search & Selection
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Hi! I was hoping I could get some help finding more colleges that are safeties/matches for me.
I am a rising senior, an asian female, from the northeast, and go to a top 10 public school in my state. I’m thinking about majoring in Computer Science or Business. I would like to stay in the Northeast/New England Region.

I think the weakest part of my application is my grades. I know grades are extremely important so I just don’t want to be too idealistic with my colleges. My grades are mixture of As and Bs, as well as a couple Cs. The Cs were in Physics Honors, Biology Honors, and Geometry Honors.

GPA: 3.9 weighted
SAT: 1420/1600 – 700 Math and 720 RW. I’m working on pushing this higher.
APs: 4- AP Lang, 4-AP CompSci, 3- APUSH; I’ve taken only honors/AP classes throughout HS. The only APs that I was offered that I didn’t take were the AP science courses.

ECs; Student Council President (4 years), Red Cross President (4 years), Females United President (2 years), Martial Arts- Black Belt (4 years), Human Values Teacher (5 years), MUN Chair & Delegate (4 years), and Peer Leadership (3 years).

Robotics Solution Winner (Regional)
US Army Essay Winner (2nd place, regional)
A bunch of MUN awards (regional, international, and state)

Colleges:
RIT, Rutgers, UMass Amherst, NJIT, Fordham, Syracuse, Stevens, Northeastern, BU, and as an EXTREME reach maybe Wellesley? Any opinions on college’s compatibility with me would be great. For what it’s worth, at least a couple students from my district with lower GPAs than me have gotten into the above colleges. Any advice would be wonderful! Thank you :slight_smile:

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*I know I said safeties/matches but even if anyone has any ideas for reaches that I might have a little chance at that would be amazing.

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bump! :slight_smile:

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Bump! :slight_smile: Any advice/opinions would be lovely

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If you’re interested in business, check out Babson, Bentley, and Villanova. Not sure how good their CS depts are, but they have solid business programs.

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What kind of budget do you have?

Take a look at Drexel and Temple in Philly. Maybe Lehigh though that’d be more of a reach I think. Also Pitt and you can apply now and hear back by October most likely.

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What state are you from, and what does your budget look like? Do you know your unweighted GPA (different schools compute weighted GPA in very different ways)?

Several of the schools on your list have very good CS and look like a match as far as I can tell.

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3.9 weighted so what’s your unweighted GPA and also budget?

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Thank you all so much for the responses! I am not positive what my UW is but I estimate it is around a 3.3. I will be applying for financial aid and have a sibling who is also in college. Ideally, I would like to pay around 25-35k. I live in New Jersey.