Help me find some target schools?

College Search & Selection
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<p>Rising senior at a catholic high school near New Haven, CT. White male
3.5 UW GPA
Will finish high school having taken 5 honors and 2 AP classes (weak point in my application)
1880/2400 or 1210/1600 SAT</p>

<p>3 year varsity letter lacrosse and probable senior captain
4 years in Spanish club, 2 years as an officer
2 years as a member of the Academic Board
3 year member of Stock market club
around 60 total service hours
National Honor Society, NSHSS scholar
Peer tutoring program
Peer Counselor (seniors helping freshman type program)
All of soph/junior year on 1st honor roll, freshman year 2nd and 3rd honor roll
Service trips to other states
School ambassador club
Soph/ Junior year academic all-conference for lacrosse</p>

<p>I want to study business in college. My plan is to do some type of minor/major combo with either finance, economics, quantitative analysis, or international business</p>

<p>I need help finding target schools that would be good for me to look into. I feel stuck in the "above average" category with my SAT/GPA definitely being above average, but not high enough to aim for some top schools. If anyone would be willing to take the time and suggest some good target schools for my numbers, it would be greatly appreciated. I like schools that are in or near a big city, and would prefer to be at or above 6k students (but I'm flexible). Anywhere in the country works, I don't need to stay near Connecticut. A huge factor to me would be a colleges alumni connections/ internship opportunities. I feel that is the most important category when it comes to a business school.</p>

<p>NOT a "chance me" post, but I would like opinions on a few schools as well. I have visited and like Fordham, Villanova, BU, Northeastern, U Miami. Do I have a shot at any of these/ are they worth applying to? </p>

<p>Thanks to everyone who responds. </p>

<p>*financial aspects aren't an issue</p>

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<p>There are a lot of business schools out there. Let’s see how the schools you’ve seen match up with your resumé.</p>

<p>Fordham lowish match
Villanova lower match
BU lowish match
Northeastern reach
U Miami low reach</p>

<p>The fact that you’re full-pay will help your cause, but I didn’t include that in my guessing. So what other similar schools might you examine? </p>

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<p>For a safe bets, I’ve considered temple and drexel in Philly and providence in Rhode Island. Could you suggest any target schools that I could look into? I struggle to find schools that I actually match the academic profile, I seem to always find ranked business profeams to be a little too high for me or a bit too low.</p>

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<p>Marquette U. has an excellent business school and offers good financial aid.</p>

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<p>U Florida, OSU, PSU, Miami of Ohio</p>

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<p>Many state universities have good business programs (like Indiana University at Bloomington) and it is not hard to get admission as an OOS students. Bloomington, IN is not a big city but students can get good internship in big cities in the summer.</p>

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<p>Babson is not far from Boston, and respected for business. Probably a low match with your stats. Definitely worth looking into if you are set on business. </p>

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<p>You might qualify for the Honors program at Pace (I think you need a 3.5 to qualify). You are literally walking distance from Wall Street. </p>

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<p>Maybe also look at Fairfield. And you still need a true safety…maybe Marist, Quinnipiac, Siena, or SUNY New Paltz.</p>

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<p>Woogzmama does Pace’s honors program have good internship opps and alumni in New York major firms/ wallstreet? </p>

<p>Happy1 I have bryant as a safety (I think?) and SUNY U at Albany.</p>

<p>To everyone else who responded, thank you very much. I appreciate all the suggestions and intend on looking into them. </p>

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<p>Happy1 Providence is basically a given because of the relationship my school has it with also.</p>

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<p>Pace supposedly has excellent internship opportunities. When I toured with my son, we were more interested in its Theater program, but the college is very pre-professional in outlook. It is very expensive, but you might qualify for some merit aid and, as I mentioned, they have an interesting Honors College.</p>

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<p>Woogzmama good to know. Will probably take a trip to visit, thank you for suggestion</p>

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<p>You’d be a low match for UMD-Collge Park, but you might look at UMD-Baltimore County, a newer and independent state university.</p>

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<p>Jkeil911 could you recommend any high matches (matching academic profile?)</p>

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<p>Lacoste would you chance me for these</p>

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<p>Make your thread on the “what are my chances” thread to get the best results. Also add all your colleges on the main post</p>

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<p>can you give us a breakdown of the 1600 and 2400 scores, please?</p>

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<p>Jkeil911 670 W and CR, 540 M. Taking classes for math, hope to break 600 next time around </p>

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<p>OP, that 540M is a concern and makes matching difficult. That could be trouble. I’d revise all my earlier estimates down. Your interests in economics and quantitative require strong math skills. A high match business school, ignoring the full pay capability: MiamiU, Rutgers-Camden, TowsonU, UScranton Safety: OhioU, BloomsburgU</p>