<p>uw gpa - ~3.5; ~3.1 9th, 3.6 10th, 4.0 11th </p>
<p>sat - 1460/2190
act - ~33</p>
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<p>thank you</p>
<p>Need more info, johnny. Heading for engineering or business or liberal arts? Any preference as to geographic area? Anything else you have a preference on?</p>
<p>The point of reach schools is that they aren't in your range. If they were in your range, they would be called matches. ;)</p>
<p>Okay, I'll quit giving you a hard time. I know what you meant. You want to know which reaches you'd have the best shot at. </p>
<p>One strategy you could take: find out which schools place a high emphasis on SAT scores. NYU, for example, would be a good one to consider.</p>
<p>What are your match and safety schools? That would help us pinpoint what types of reachier schools might be a fit.</p>
<p>I also have to disagree with world changer -- sometimes reach schools are ones that, on paper at least, look like they are in range, but the competitiveness of their applicant pool makes them reachier.</p>
<p>I may have phrased that poorly. Numbers on paper can be deceiving, true. What I essentially meant by it was that no one is in a "safe" range for top schools, which is why they are called reaches.</p>
<p>what region of the US are u interested in?
Ill give u several areas: Not all will be reaches but are all possibilities. </p>
<p>Northeast: NYU, BU, American, GWU, Maryland (College Park), Virginia Tech
Midwest: most of the big tens are matches. UW and UM are reaches though.
West: UCSB, UCSD, USC, U Washington
South: Tulane, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida State, Florida, UMiami</p>
<p>massive upward trend, excellent ACT/SAT... I'd say everything but Harvard/Princeton/Yale/MIT is within reach for you.</p>
<p>I want to do a liberal art major and do pre med. I consider UF a match, but I'm curious about "higher" schools that I may be able to get in to such as NU, Vandy, etc.</p>
<p>Acarta,
With an ACT composite of 33 and an SAT score of 2190, UM and UW are certainly not reaches--they're probably honors.</p>
<p>Vandy is definitely a possibility. You have stats that make it worth applying to the Ivies, but no one on this website can say you are a match with an Ivy. Ivies are always "it depends". Below the very top tier you are going to have more of a problem eliminating schools rather than adding them: there are so many. Some that come to mind in the south besides Vandy are Emory, Tulane, Rice, Davidson, Furman. In the midwest you have Macalester, WashU, NU, Carleton. Far west you can consider Reed, Whitman, Pomona.</p>
<p>the ACT is just an estimate BTW based on practice tests, it might as well be 31-32, I don't know if that makes much of a difference. I never even thought of applying to the higher schools haha, I might as well.</p>
<p>Does anybody know of that website, perhaps related to some SAT prep business, that allows you to search for colleges by PSAT or SAT range? After you plug in your scores and search, you can click a button and see what other colleges to consider if you raised your scores by so much....</p>
<p><a href="http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/index.jsp%5B/url%5D">http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/index.jsp</a> does something close to what you seek.</p>
<p>Be wary, however, of the given SAT score range; if you're unhooked (i.e., not a legacy, not an under-represented minority, not a recruited athlete), you'll want to score above the 50th percentile to be competitive for admission.</p>