<p>If you like Rutgers, and it’s an academic and financial safety, you don’t need to find another safety. You may end up liking another school that could qualify as “safety”, but you don’t need to seek one out.</p>
<p>MIT is an amazing school, but no one will dispute that its strengths are in math, science, et cetera. Humanities, not so much. Do you know what discipline of the Humanities? I believe Rutgers competes with Princeton for the top Philosophy program, so that fits.</p>
<p>You have a ton of great reaches, a solid safety, and honestly, the hardest to figure out is the “match” category. Generally, your statistics need to be a little higher than their “average”, to account for a variety of factors. On your other thread, we did determine you have a 4.0. Once you take the SAT/ACT, that will be a great help, too, in determining “match” schools. For admissions, extracurricular activities and recommendations are important, too. Then, of course, is the critical essay.</p>
<p>Try using College Confidential’s match system. It’s not perfect, but it should give you a nice list of schools to look into. If you’ve taken the PSAT, you can use that as your SAT score for that. I know people that have used that match system and found good matches, and others who end up with a list of ill-matched schools, so take it with a grain of salt.</p>
<p>Don’t just categorize by reach-match-safety, of course, but it’s important to have a few schools that fit the bill for “match”.</p>