Hey all! As a rising senior, I am very excited to get my college list together. It is as follows:
High match/reach: Harvard(dad is paying for this one and isn’t negotiable), UPenn (Wharton), Cornell (Hotel School), UVA (McIntire), UNC (Kenan-Flagler), Northeastern (D’Amore Kim), Boston College (Carroll), Notre Dame (Mendoza)
Low match/safety: Ohio State (Fisher), Miami-OH (Farmer), Texas A&M, and University of Wyoming (free to apply, my state school and will most likely get a full-ride)
My main interest is business, finance, and/or marketing, however I will likely pick up a minor in Astronomy/Astrophysics or History. If you have any other schools that I should look into, please comment your thoughts! For context, I have a 4.0, a 34 ACT, and have won international awards in DECA (business competition).
Are you sure you want the hotel school at Cornell? Are you interested in hospitality industry? There are more traditional business majors, including finance, in the Dyson school at Cornell. http://dyson.cornell.edu/undergraduate.
I’d put Northeastern as a match, not a high match/reach for you.
Maybe add another one or two solid match schools? (perhaps Villanova? Lehigh?)
Yes, being from Wyoming might be your ticket. It also doesn’t hurt that you won an international competition. Sounds like a good list if you would be happy to attend your safety schools. If not find some matches like Bucknell, Lehigh and Tulane for example
If you like UNC Chapel Hill, why not UNC Wilmington? Cameron Business School is excellent, campus is 10 minutes from the beach, incredibly relaxed and laid-back atmosphere, world-class community and family feel.
I wouldn’t recommend High Point, and certainly wouldn’t compare it to Duke, UNC-Ch, Davidson or even UNC-W, App State, or Asheville! (although the campus is very pretty). Perhaps equivalent to Roanoke in Virginia?
Based on your stats, I’d add Villanova, NYU (Stern), and for better safeties, ASU Barrett and Fordham.
And they meet 100% of demonstrated need! Wow. As a kid from a sub-$60,000 income family, that’s wonderful. I’ll definitely give it more of a look and see if I would fit in. Thank you very much for the help, @MYOS1634 !
Then you’d get full tuition at the very least, if you get in.
Do you have a Fiske Guide, Princeton Review’s Best College, Insider to the colleges, Colleges that Change Lives? You can buy them used (2013+ is fine) or borrow them from your library and make copies of your favorite colleges that aren’t reaches.
@MYOS1634 I’m afraid not, but I keep a running spreadsheet of any information I may need about colleges that I’m considering, such as how I plan to pay for the college, average ACT/GPA, application fee, deadlines, etc. I also leave a box for observations I have, such as their social life, sports, frat presence, etc that I notice while researching. It’s not the best system but I really like Excel haha.
Get online and find those books, or go to your HS library/town library and get them out TODAY.
Start a notebook to take more notes - a double page per college.
