<p>What are some good back-up colleges/universities for economics?</p>
<p>You need to give us a lot more information: grades, test scores, class rank, financial situation. And information about college preferences in terms of school size, geography, culture, etc…</p>
<p>I am currently a high school Junior in New York State(Upstate)
Resume
Academics-Sophomore Year: Honors Algebra2/Trig., Honors English, Honors Chemistry, AP European History, and Spanish level three
GPA: 4.0 unweighted.
Athletics: Member of Varsity Tennis Team(One Year) and Varsity Swimming teams(Two years).
Extra-Curricular Activities: Member of school orchestra where I play the violin. I have been studying privately for six years. In addition, I also played the piano for ten years. And I competed in music festivals such as, NYSSMA, Area All State, and BCMEA. Member of National Honor Society(NHS)
Working Experience: Research assistant at the Department of Economics at SUNY Binghamton(Fall 2011), Research Assistant at Cornell University Department of Economics(Spring 2012), and Intern at either the Goldman Sachs or the JP Morgan(Summer 2012)
Summer Camps: Harvard Summer School( Summer 2011 took Econ and Political Science courses for a total of 8 undergraduate credits) and Summer Institute for the Gifted(Summer 2010).
Future plans for next year:
Courses for Junior Year: Honors Pre-Calculus, IB English HL-1, IB Physics, IB Spanish 4, AP US History, and Principles of Microeconomics(Fall Semester-4credits undergraduate)/Principles of Macroeconomics (Spring Semester- 4 credits undergraduate) at Suny Binghamton.
Planning on taking Five AP exams in Junior Year( English Literature and Composition, U.S.History, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, and Calculus AB). In addition, to the SAT, SAT Subject Tests ( U.S. History and Literature), and PSAT.
I am planning on transferring to Phillips Exeter Academy for Senior Year and I plan on taking the following AP exams senior year: Calculus BC, Statistics.
Awards: Three scholar athlete awards and three varsity letters.
College List:
- Princeton
- Harvard
- Yale
- Stanford
- U of Chicago</p>
<p>So, based on your “reach” list, your only criteria for choosing a school is a great economics dept and prestige - and you want a university (not a LAC). Is that correct? You’d be equally happy in the deep south and the northeast. No specific area of economics that interests you. </p>
<p>If that’s the case, then why not just google ‘top undergraduate economics’ (there are several lists by various sources), compare them and pick off the most prestigious?</p>
<p>Like how is my college list… Is six schools good enough?</p>
<p>If 5 of your 6 schools have such low acceptance rates, then no. 6 is not enough. You need more than one safety.</p>
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<p>What would you suggest, I added Duke and Cornell.</p>
<p>Adding Duke and Cornell still doesn’t give you a safety.</p>
<p>Ok I have determined that my safety is NYU.</p>
<p>I think people are trying to tell you, that even though you have a 4.0GPA and might go to Exeter, a real “safety” school is one where you’re practically guaranteed admission (+90%).</p>
<p>I don’t think you should consider NYU a safety. Plus you’re only a Junior. But you’re the one who is gambling here, not me…</p>
<p>One would suspect someone who is to be future econ major would grasp statistics and probability a little more adeptly.</p>
<p>For a NY state resident, your safeties would almost certainly be the SUNY, CUNY, and NY community college systems depending on your family’s education budget.</p>
<p>Sit your parents down, and find out just exactly how they expect you to pay for your education. Will $60,000 be available each year? $30,000? $15,000? Less than that? Until you know about the money issue, all talk of colleges is pretty much moot.</p>
<p>I am definitely not a fool and am not going to use Suny,cuny, or community colleges as safeties. My stats and resume is way above those institutions standards…do you have any good private colleges in nys for economics? And my parents are doctors…so the financial situation is not a problem at all. I appreciate your insight though</p>
<p>Ok here is my college list…I need help on the safeties though.
- Princeton
- Harvard
- Yale
- UPenn
- Columbia
- Stanford
Are my reaches - U of chicago
- Northwestern
- Duke
- Georgetown
- Johns Hopkins
Are my probables
I need help on safeties!!</p>
<p>Your probables are most likely also still reaches. For instance Northwestern only admits 27% of applicants and the 25%ile for SATs is near a 2100.<br>
Nice attitude to give to someone trying to help you. Guess you really don’t know much about the SUNYs or CUNYs.</p>
<p>Ok, well I am not into either Suny or cuny…NYU is a much better safety in my opinion. How do you think the college list is ok?</p>
<p>NYU is only a safety if your family can pay $55K/year. If that’s not the case you don’t have a safety.</p>
<p>Well financially i am sound…so the money issue is not a problem. So thank you for your assurance, NYU is my safety. How are Georgetown, duke, and johns Hopkins for economics since I want to major in that…or are there better schools than those three…if so please tell me?</p>
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So, you tell us you need safeties. Someone suggests some reasonable safeties without knowledge of your financial circumstances, and you say those suggestions are foolish. God forbid you consider schools where your “stats and resume is way above those institutions standards.”</p>
<p>To top it all off, you call Duke a “probable” when it accepted less than 11% of its Arts and Sciences applicants last year. You don’t even have an SAT score yet.</p>
<p>So I can’t really help you if you’re going to be an arrogant dick. But I will tell you that most people would consider a place where your “stats and resume is way above those institutions standards” a safety.</p>
<p>So what are you saying? What should I do?</p>
<p>It’s unreasonable to suggest safeties until you have an SAT or ACT score. Take a practice test at least to see where you are.</p>
<p>As for your college list, go to College Board’s website. They have a really good college search engine that you can use to narrow down a list based on stuff like location, majors, campus activities, etc. You can then sort that list by factors like SAT scores or % applicants admitted. In general, safeties are places that admit over 70% of their applicants OR post 75th percentile SAT scores that are at least 100 points lower per section than your scores.</p>