<p>I'm a senior looking at colleges, but I'm having trouble figuring out which schools are reach, target and safety. I have a 3.73 unweighted GPA, I'll have taken 5 APs when I graduate, I got a 1300 on the SAT (I'm planning on retaking it) and a 30 on the ACT, but I've never done a school sport and I'm only in one club. I did volunteer with disabled children for 50 hours a week last summer, and every Saturday since eight grade. I'm looking at NYU, Boston University, Ithaca College, SUNY Binghamton and SUNY Stony Brook, but I don't know if I could be accepted to any of those schools. Any suggestions about other schools I should look at would be welcome.</p>
<p>You seem to be in range for all with Ithaca being on the safe end, BU a match and NYU a match/reach. Though are they financial safeties? None of these offer good aid.</p>
<p>Maybe Maryland, Syracuse, Pittsburgh, American and GWU (expensive). Best of luck!</p>
<p>Your ACT score currently is the one you want to submit, unless you retake the SAT and get higher than a 1300 (That was for CR and Math, right?). Your GPA is good also. I think you are a solid match for most B and many B+ schools. Some good suggestions were posted by poi and excellent advice from Redroses. Do you want more school suggestions? You are within range for Colgate, if smaller, rural, schools are your thing. Where is par72 when you need him? He could be plugging Holy Cross for the umteenth time right now… “only an hour from Boston, you don’t have to be Catholic, comparable to Boston College and Georgetown”, etc. etc. (I’m not saying comparable to BC and GU, that was a quote from par72).</p>