<p>I come to CC for help in determining which reach/match schools i should continue researching. </p>
<p>Brief Stats Summary:</p>
<p>Currently Junior at Decent Public High School in New England.
Ranked 8th out of 250
GPA UW: 3.7
SATs: 680M 700 V 670W
Class President (4years)
Many Clubs(NHS,FBLA,Model UN, etc)-3 Leadership Positions Total
Some community service
2 Varsity Sports for 4 years each.</p>
<p>I am looking for a smaller school with a great community feel with a work hard play hard attitude, preferably on or near the East Coast. I don't like schools that are cutthroat in competition but I also hate it when education takes a backseat to other things. </p>
<p>I plan on majoring in Economics or Finance so strong alumni network would definitley be a plus, also career prospects are a major factor for me.</p>
<p>Right now I have mostly researched Boston College and Lehigh which seem to be like great schools that would fit my personality. For safeties I am considering UConn, BU, Bentley/Babson, and Syracuse.
thanks for any help...</p>
<p>If you could raise your SAT scores, you will have a lot more options for matches/reaches. Some to look into would be: Holy Cross, NYU (Stern), UVa, UPenn (as a reach)</p>
<p>You want a "smaller school with a great community feel." NYU and BU would be the antitheses of that. Maybe Penn too. Lehigh seems nice, but if you're a guy, why put yourself in a position where there are so many more males than females? Anybody know if Hamilton qualifies as work-hard-play-hard? </p>
<p>Holy Cross and Bucknell have very similar academic profiles. Bucknell like Colgate has very remote campus. HC has very strong alumni network-lots of alums are in high profile postions.</p>
<p>Is there something wrong with Lafayette, Hamilton, Trinity, and Union Colleges that they didn't get retained?</p>
<p>What stats are you guys looking at that make you conclude Bucknell is harder to get into than BC?</p>
<p>Still don't get the reason for voluntarily attending a school where the male:female ratio is as lopsided as Lehigh (and Bentley?). Is classprezcj male or female?. There's a hopeless, frustrated, lets-get-drunk atmosphere that develops when there are 2 or 3 guys for every female. Go to a place with that sort of ratio, and it's sort of the academic equivalent of ice fishing (lonely, too much talk about the Three Stooges, and intolerable without alcohol). Of course if classprezcj is a female...3 guys for every gal at Lehigh? You GO girl!</p>
<p>Also, classprezj seems like a well-rounded sort of person--why get cloistered in a biz school like Bentley when other nice places abound?</p>
<p>Bottom line: Safeties & super reaches look great; lose Lehigh and Bentley (unless you're a female, in which case--all together now--YOU GO GIRL!!; BC up to Reach; take a second look at Trinity, Union, Hamilton, and ESPECIALLY Lafayette.</p>
<p>TourGuide
The thing about Lafayette-too far
Hamilton-from what ive heard, more of an artsy school, still need to research more though
Trinity-im not staying in CT
Union-never heard of it</p>
<p>I figured Bucknell was just hard to get into period. BC on the other hand seemed difficult but not as difficult as it seemed because they get like 26000 applicants (off the top my head), many of which are not qualified, thus they're acceptance rates seem a bit lower, making it seem harder to get into. This was just the conclusion i came to im probably wrong...</p>
<p>Also I'm a male but I'm not going to college solely because of the male/female ratio. I just want to get into a highly ranked school that will offer me the most opportunity afterwards. </p>
<p>Finally, i know bentley is a pure business school and you recognized how well rounded i strive to be tourguide, but i dont see this as getting "cloistered" in one subject. Business has so many aspects to it and I'm nearly 100 percent sure that I want to have a career in business, and bentley with its great reputation in the Northeast, and perfect location, just outside of Boston, seems like a great match.</p>
<p>Thank you though for your response. I'm visiting Lehigh a week from today and after that ill know for sure whether to still consider it a possibility.</p>
<p>Reaches/super reaches:
UPENN Wharton
Columbia (Econ)
MIT (Sloan)-but I wouldn't go there. Its campus resembles the Abu Grahib Prison.</p>
<p>Lower reaches:
Brown (Business Econ)
Washington University-St. Louis (Olin)
Cornell (econ/business)</p>
<p>Matches:
University of Michigan (Ross)
New York University (Stern)
Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)</p>
<p>Safish matches/safeties:
University of Maryland (Smith)
New York University (CAS Econ)
Rutgers University (Business/Rutgers College-econ)
Northeastern (Business)-it has a CoOp program where you work and study at the same time for four years, or something like that. It's an up-and-coming school that's improving in quality.</p>
<p>Dump Lehigh. It's not particularly known for business-ergo not highly recruited.</p>
<p>Lafayette is in Easton, PA, the town right next to Lehigh.</p>
<p>If you're certain you want business, then Bentley and Babson are great choices. But I'm always concerned when I hear high school students say they are real sure they want to major in a certain subject, because about half the subjects they teach in college are rarely if ever taught in high schools, so it's tough to you know for sure if you are or aren't interested in them. In high school you can certainly get a feel for math, bio, chem, physics, English, foreign languages, history,poli-sci, drama, music, and communications. But in most high schools it's tough to get a feel for subjects like economics, business, education, psychology, sociology, philosophy, theology, engineering, classics, and nursing.</p>
<p>i see what you mean tourguide, by the way for some odd reason i always figured that lafayette was indiana (mb because i was looking at purdue and that's west lafayette) but ill definitley have to check it out friday after lehigh's open house.</p>
<p>Classprezcj, how did your visit to Lehigh go? Did you get to visit Lafayette as well? Pictures of both places look beautiful. How did they look to you?</p>
<p>Lehigh was great. I really liked the look of the campus, the students were friendly, and the food was excellent. I really noticed how little diversity there was though. I didnt really mind the steepness of the campus (how its built on one side of a mountain and all) but i can see how it bothers some people. As for Lafayette, there wasn't enough time to visit it so I'll have to go back in the future.</p>