I am a little too confident. Need some safeties real quick!

<p>I'm applying to Fordham, Northeastern, Bentley and Villanova. Unfortunately, I think those are a bit of a reach, so I'm looking for great business schools, preferably on the east coast near a major city (preferably NYC or Boston), but also with a good chance of getting in. Thank you so much!</p>

<p>STATS: </p>

<p>ACT: 31
Weighted GPA: 3.6
UW GPA: 3.0
ECs:
400+ hours of community service
2 jobs (one of which is frequent)
Captain of state finalist volleyball team
Captain of nationally competing club VB team
Hooks: I'm Catholic, so maybe that will help?
High School: Top ten public schools in
Illinois</p>

<p>Schedule: All honors and AP classes
Grade Trend: Slight dip junior year</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

<p>Do you want a good chance of admission (fairly safe) or do you want dead certain admission (truly safe)?</p>

<p>Will money be a factor in choosing between institutions?</p>

<p>I’ve been looking for matches and fairly safes. I’ve been considering (based on my stats) Butler, SLU, Xavier as matches/safties in the Midwest, but I am leaning towards East Coast now. I’m not sure how you would classify Fordham, Villanova or Bentley, but if they are reaches, I think I need to find some matches/slight safeties. Money will play a role in deciding, but will be far from
from the deciding factor. Again, thanks so much! </p>

<p>If you want to apply to a “safety school,” then think of a public university in your home state where you know that your acceptance is an absolute slam dunk, and where costs are reasonable/manageable. A safety school is basically the last thing between you and completely whiffing on all of your other applications. </p>

<p>Since you are in high school in Illinois, select a public university (or two) within Illinois that has a good business program and apply there. Some public universities have rolling admissions, where you can find out within a relatively short time whether you are accepted; and then you can focus on your applications to your more preferred schools.</p>

<p>College admissions are not a mathematical certainty or a scientific given. Apply to Big (or Little) State U, and hold your acceptance as your final back-up plan. If you get accepted to one of your dream schools, then you don’t have to worry about going to State U – but at least it’s there in the unlikely (but never impossible) event that you need it. </p>

<p>Gandalf: Thanks for the advice! Fortunately, I have a safety school close by. Now I’m just looking for a couple match schools in the boston or NYC area. </p>

<p>How about Marist College, about an hour north of NYC?</p>

<p>Bump?</p>

<p>BU? </p>

<p>@Lacoste‌ Do you think I could get in?</p>

<p>I don’t think its a safety but it could be low reach. ACT is good for them but UW GPA is lacking
If you apply ED to BU that gives you a better shot</p>

<p>@Lacoste Thanks, but BU is just a little too big for me I think. What do you think about Fordham, Bentley, Loyola Maryland or Villanova? </p>

<p>I actually think that it more difficult to get into Nova’s B school. At my tour session they told me that it was there strongest department and that the acceptance rate was in the 30s
Like the other 3</p>

<p>@Lacoste I know they are definitely not safeties, I’m just wondering if you think they would be matches or if I’m overconfident and should be considering them reaches? I also got the impression Loyola Maryland will probably been easier to get into than the others? Thanks again for your help! </p>

<p>You should get into Loyola Maryland
You should get into one of Fordham/Bentley
Your ACT is great GPA is really hurting. is there a reason the two don’t match up that you can explain. IE, you got a concussion in 11th which caused your grades to drop</p>

<p>Take a look at Fairfield.</p>

<p>What about Pace? You may qualify in their honors college with substantial merit scholarship.
It is NOT in their web site, but I know they gave one or two full tuition scholarships before.</p>

<p>I agree on Fairfield.
Check out Providence, Quinipiac, Bryant, Geneseo (AACSB accredited Bschool), Stonehill, TCNJ - all matches.
Pace would be a safety, as would Susquehanna (also AACSB accredited, very friendly school), Adelphi, Canisius, Duquesne, Loyola MD, Siena.</p>

<p>Thank you for the suggestions!</p>

<p>Check out Babson. Highly rated business school in Boston. <a href=“http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg01_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=32”>http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg01_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=32&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>JackRedBlueGreen, Northeastern (17,000 undergraduate students) is the same size as BU (18,000 undergraduate students). BU does have more graduate students, but in general, if BU is too big for you, so is Northeastern.</p>