I need a low target/ safety. Please help.

College Search & Selection
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<p>I'm looking at some top schools (ivies, duke, washu, etc.) However, I haven't found a safety school that I've fallen in love with and need some help.</p>

<p>Looking for:</p>

<p>Work Hard, Play Hard school
School near a city or in a city (must have some sort of campus)
Skiing nearby, preferably
4,000-16,000 kids
Good athletics
Some sort of business certificate/program</p>

<p>Other schools considering: Wharton, Dartmouth, Duke, WashU, Emory, UVA, Harvard, Yale, NYU, Michigan</p>

<p>Current safeties: UMD (instate), bucknell??</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<p>4.00 UW, 4.67 W
2060 SAT (790 M, 600 CR, 670 W)
pretty good ec's</p>

<p>Any suggestions???</p>

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<p>Look at Trinity University in San Antonio or Tulane?</p>

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<p>What about Penn State?</p>

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<p>. Pitt?</p>

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<p>U of Vermont, Clark U., Union College, McGill, Colgate, U of Denver, U of New Hampshire, Boston College.</p>

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<p>Retake the SAT, would be my suggestion. </p>

<p>More productively: What state are you in? Your state school, if its good.</p>

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<p>I am retaking the SAT and will probably try the ACT as well. I live in Maryland so my state school is UMD- College Park. </p>

<p>Everyone thanks for all of the advice. That will really help.</p>

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<p>Won't UMD do?</p>

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<p>Colorado @ Boulder. :)</p>

<p>Good business program, right outside of Denver, ski heaven.</p>

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<p>Vanderbilt</p>

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<p>Boston C ... one of the SUNYs</p>

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<p>COLGATE...definitely work hard, play hard</p>

<p>It seems to be a perfect safety for Dartmouth</p>

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<p>James Madison in Virginia. 2 hours from D.C., but otherwise fits your criteria very well.</p>

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<p>Colgate is not a safety...neither is Vanderbilt. Penn State probably isn't either, for OOS applicants (low match, more likely).</p>

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<p>i agree, lots of these suggestions are not safeties for you, nor will your choices as listed be likely with your SATs. too large a discrepancy between GPA and standardized tests. you really can't be OOS and 600s for schools like UVA, Mich. and as for most the others, with the HUGE numbers of college applicants continuing, those SATs will keep you out, unless you're URM, athlete, etc. good luck and re-focus a bit.</p>

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<p>My son had the same stats you have and was accepted at American with $$ so I guess it was a safety for him. He was also accepted at Seattle U in the Bschool honors program - big city, skiing nearby. Regis in Denver is another safety. I've heard good things about several of the schools in Portland, too. Santa Clara is a nice match. USC is another good match if you consider there is skiing in the mountains just north of LA near Lake Arrowhead. In the south, but still not that far from skiing consider University of Richmond.</p>

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<p>I'd agree that many of the above suggestions are not safeties (colgate, vanderbilt), however i do think that these may be some good matches. </p>

<p>happycollegemom, i don't really understand what you mean by "refocus a bit". I'm going to try to do better on my SATs, maybe try the ACT, but I'm not great at the critical reading. i find it hard to believe that a school will flat out deny an applicant because they aren't great at 1 section on 1 test.</p>

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<p>hi jk~ i'm responding to the schools you initially listed. you're looking at VERY high Tier Is and i was trying to say that with a 1390( many schools still only use 2-score test) you will fall short on your app. schools, especially of a very competitve level, will tend toward the standardized test score over the GPA, as they know schools throughout the country are very different...some overinflate grades, others underinflate. but they like to see a consistency between GPA and SATs/ACTs. details on the ECs , etc. are not known here either. you have SOLID stats, but you started from an extremely high end and then asked about safeties. that's what i meant by "re-focus". i think some schools you consider safe may actually be match.</p>

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<p>another comment...James Madison is known for the REVERSE! they look almost exclusively at GPA( and not even the rigor of courses) over SATs/ACTs. yes, they're a definite safety.</p>