I need another school!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I have a pretty set list of where I want to apply, but my counselor suggested I should add a more definite safety to the list... I dont know whether or not to take her advice since she is new to the school and has no experience..</p>

<p>here's a brief summary of my stats: asian, female, midwest, 3.97 GPA uw, top 5% in a competitive private school, 34 ACT, SAT II: 770 Math II, 770 Chinese, 760 USH; solid extracurriculars with a lot of emphasis on leadership and journalism, 5's on 4 AP's, one 4 for AP Bio.</p>

<p>my current list:
wharton (ED)
MIT Sloan (EA)
Washington University in Saint Louis
Northwestern
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
Brown
UC Berkeley
Cornell
NYU (Stern)
UMich (Ross)</p>

<p>nyu and umich are supposed to be my safeties, but i dont know if it makes a diff since i'm applying for their business programs?</p>

<p>if i do add another safety onto my list, it's going to be outta these (btw, tell me if you don't think these are "safety" enough or a "match" rather than a safety): UVA (McIntire), Carnegie Mellon, Wesleyan, Haverford, Pomona.</p>

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<p>Wesleyan, Haverford and Pomona are more matches than safeties, IMHO.</p>

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<p>I agree with johnwesley. Although your stats are very good, Wes, Haverford and Pomona are top LACs that pay a lot of attention to the intagibles that make up fit, so I wouldn't really call them safties. Those three also seem rather different from the rest of your list, which has no other LACs and has a bunch of really big schools. </p>

<p>I don't know enough about Carnegie Mellon or UVA to assess if they are real safties for you, but they do seem more in line with the kind of schools you seem to like.</p>

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<p>do you guys agree with my counselor? should i even apply to another safety? because i'd really be fine going to nyu or to umich if it comes down to it. or can i not really consider those as safeties either?</p>

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<p>apply to wesleyan. It is very good.</p>

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<p>Pomona is a probably a slight reach/high match, not a safety. 15.8% acceptance rate. 25-75%ile SAT 2050-2280; ACT 29-34. Your ACT is right at 75%ile, but your SAT (2240, right?) is below the 75%ile. You don't specify what you mean by "solid" EC's, but you'd need some high regional/national awards to make Pomona a safety - like Science Olympiad, RSI, TASP, Westinghouse, Intel, major national leadership/journalism awards, that sort of thing. Even then, i'd say your chances would be 75%, not 95+% (which a true safety should be).</p>

<p>Pomona is as hard to get into as WUStL, Northwestern, or Cornell (from your list), if not harder.</p>

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<p>Are you a Michigan resident? If yes, then U Mich is a safety (though I don't know about Ross). Otherwise maybe not.</p>

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<p>NYU stern is not a safety by any means</p>

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<p>some extracurriculars:</p>

<p>Model UN
-secretary general/ president of my city's model UN
-president of my school's model UN for two years
-honored delegate for first two years</p>

<p>Mock Trial
-varsity attorney for three years
-state champions in 2006; advanced to nationals in 2006
-first in my city in 2007
-quarterfinalists for state in 2007</p>

<p>Mandarin Society
-president for two years
-cultural events and Chinese new year coordinator
-have gotten many famous Chinese cultural figures to come to our school
-teach elementary school kids Mandarin</p>

<p>School Newspaper
-staff writer since freshman year
-A&E editor junior year
-managing editor this year</p>

<p>Social Issues Board (kinda like a stu-co thing, except for soc issues)
-grade level rep for four years
-co-president this year</p>

<p>CARE
-community service group i founded last year dedicated to helping the elderly generation
-organizer for an official benefit fashion show with the Alzheimer's Foundation of America</p>

<p>Nursing Home Aide (separate from CARE)
-i've been doing this individually for four years, about 4-6 hours a month.</p>

<p>America's Promise
-national community service organization founded by Colin Powell
-one of fifteen chosen youth leaders to serve on national board
-District area ambassador</p>

<p>-I also work 15 hours a week at a chocolate store, have interned for a newspaper in China and for the New York Times, and I participated in a business program at Wharton this summer.</p>

<p>-State Enterprise Award, Kodak Young Leaders Award, Cum Laude Society, and Organization of Chinese AMericans Youth Leadership Award</p>

<p>that's all that's off the top of my head.</p>

<p>any more advice now that it seems stern can't be consdiered a safety? how about umich and ross? (i'm not from mich by the way).</p>

<p>can u guys suggest any safeties for me that you think i may like? do u think i need more safeties?</p>

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<p>oh and i do science olympiad; we've placed 1st at districts the past two years</p>

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<p>ok wow your EC's are extremely good..</p>

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<p>Apply to a state school as a safety. You're awful cocky, and all of the schools on your list are not safeties, unless you're some sort of recruited athlete double legacy genius. Even for someone with your stats.</p>

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<p>vanderbilt</p>

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<p>What about Chicago(EA)?</p>

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<p>i didn't mean to come off sounding cocky, jojo... sorry if i did.</p>

<p>thanks for all of the suggestions guys! chicago seems awesome, but i heard that it's where "fun goes to die."??</p>

<p>does anybody know anything about wake forest or boston college?</p>

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<p>hahahahaha that slogan really is a turn-off. We came up with it to make fun of ourselves, and continue to use it on t-shirts as a way of showing school spirit. If you were to go to Chicago, would you really never have fun? Nah.</p>

<p>However, if you're looking for a business program, I can't imagine you would like Chicago's emphasis on liberal arts. I see business programs and other pre-professional programs as the antithesis of liberal arts.</p>

<p>Other B-school considerations:</p>

<p>USC (Marshall)
UVA (<em>forget</em>)
UMaryland (Smith)
Emory (Goizueta)
U. Indiana at Bloomington (*forget)</p>

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<p>Nice EC's. You have a good shot anywhere. Write your essay about life at your chocolate store and you're in.</p>