<p>I'm a senior right now and am starting to apply for colleges. I'm having trouble finding safety schools and match schools. Or maybe I don't know what would be a reach/match for me. Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>Some info about me:
A student in an NC public high school (Chapel Hill)
SAT: M:710 CR: 760 W: 620
4.0 GPA unweighted, 4.65 weighted
2 APs junior year got a 5 on both
4 APs senior year
Lots of honors classes(10+)
National Merit Semifinalist (as of now, could be finalist, or scholar)
I'm in SADD, Habitat, Quiz Bowl, and Literary Magazine. This year I'm editor in Chief of the Literary Magazine.
I volunteer at a senior home (30+ hours)
I tutor Mexican children in my community.
I have played the cello for 7 years (school orchestra and privately)
I throw discus on the track & field team at school.
Summer program at Brown (Genetics and Human Behavior)
Summer program with MundoLengua in Spain</p>
<p>Okay, I'm looking for colleges somewhere on the east coast North of NC. I'm also willing to look at colleges over to Missouri. I like small towns, colleges somewhat isolated but not too far away from everything, and some colleges closer to large cities. I'm looking for liberal arts probably private colleges or universities. I want a small school (6,000 or less)</p>
<p>My top choices right now are:
Wash U. St. Louis
Amherst
Tufts
Middlebury
UNC- Chapel Hill</p>
<p>I need help with safeties and categorizing the ones I've listed as match or reach. Thanks!</p>
<p>I'm undecided right now and all I know is I don't want to go into business or engineering. Probably something in the humanities. I'd also like to ahve access to art programs (probably won't major in that though).</p>
<p>UNC-CH is a match, maybe even a safety; I hear that it's very numbers-based for in-state students. Amherst is a reach for everyone, Midd a bit less so but still reach. Ditto for Tufts and Wash U.--reachy but not crap-shoot reachy.</p>
<p>Great list, but all your schools look like reaches (except that I can't evaluate UNC for an in-state student-maybe a match?) While you have the scores and grades to get in to the other schools, you are up against a lot of similarly qualified students. You really need 2-3 more match schools, and a safety.</p>
<p>Thanks you two. I'm thinking of UNC as a match or safety. Not really sure.<br>
If it helps my chances at all, my parents are both alumni of Midd.
I know I need more matches or safeties, does anyone have suggestions?</p>
<p>I pretty much agree with Keilexandra. As for other options, how about Vassar (less of a reach than Amherst; similar selctivity to Tufts but maybe more of a fit for your interests?) If you're female, Bryn Mawr or Smith would be matches, both with the consortium benefit. Beloit, Denison, Wheaton (MA), Dickinson, Hamilton, Sarah Lawrence may be some solid safeties for you.</p>
<p>You say you want less than 6,00 students, but you have three schools on your list larger than that: UNC Chapel Hill, Tufts, and WUSTL. You might also look at Rochester and Brandeis for low matches, Vanderbilt and William and Mary for high matches low reaches. Kenyon, Gettysburg, Franklin and Marshall, Clark, Holy Cross, St. John's, Earlham, and Wooster come to mind.</p>
<p>thanks!<br>
nmparents, Tufts I liked despite the number, UNC-CH I'm applying to because it's a good school and a match and it's right where I am, and WUSTL has 6,000 undergrads. For the most part though, I'm looking for smaller schools. I thought it would be good to set a number I'd really like.
I'm going to look into Kenyon, Brandeis, and Rochester. My mom went to William and Mary before transferring to Midd. so there's some familial dislike of that one. I might look at it myself though.</p>
<p>What were her problems with William And Mary? My daughter is thinking of applying there as a low reach. FWIW she hasn't visited it, though we have been to Williamsburg in the summer, and she did visit several other Virginia schools and had mixed feelings about all of them.</p>