<p>It turns out that I have way too many reaches on my list, and I shouldn't be getting my hopes up too high. I need a few match schools (maybe 2 or 3?)! I've already gotten into my safeties, so I can go all out with applications now.</p>
<p>-preferably Northeast -- New England, or Mid-Atlantic
-not too big. under 10,000 is ideal. LACs over 2000 are great too.</p>
<p>STATS:
GPA: 3.9, lots of APs, school sends about 20 kids to ivies each year
SAT I: 2190 (660 CR, 790 M, 740 W)
SAT II: 800 M II, 750 USH, 710 Bio M
ECs: don't want to go in detail, but they're great. lots of leadership, dedication, etc.
ORM (Asian), Female</p>
<p>I've been reading the PR book about the 366 best colleges, and I can't seem to find an ideal "match" school in terms of location and numbers (which includes tuition of course. for example, i refuse to go to GWU.).</p>
<p>What about Franklin and Marshall in Pennsylvania? It's near the city but I'm pretty sure the
campus has a lot of green spaces. Maybe they'd offer you some scholarship if you visit there.</p>
<p>Franklin and Marshall sounds like a safety for her. U Rochester, Boston College, Brandeis, Barnard, Wellesley, Vassar, Johns Hopkins, William and Mary, Amherst may be worth considering.</p>
<p>I want to study biology (pre-med) and do some music on the side. Bio is offered at practically every school, so I don't think it would be an issue anywhere. </p>
<p>I'm applying to Wellesley and Johns Hopkins, as OneMom suggested above, but I thought they'd be more reaches than matches.
Other schools include Cornell, Dartmouth, Northwestern, UPenn, UChicago -- all reaches, of course.</p>
<p>I'm thinking William and Mary and Boston College should go on my list of matches...</p>
<p>I also agree on the former posts about Johns hopkins especially if youre planning on bio/premed (but i know theyre very good all over). maybe duke or emory????</p>
<p>I entered your data and planned majors into a college match system by Princeton Review and this is what I got:</p>
<p>Reach: (% match)
None =) that's what a 3.9 can do for you</p>
<p>Good Match:
Northwestern University 70%
Bard College 68%
Johns Hopkins University 66%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 65%
Yale University 64%
University Of Chicago 64%
Dartmouth College 63%
Cornell University 62%
Boston College 61%</p>
<p>Safety Schools
Syracuse University 78%
Trinity College (CT) 71%
University Of Virginia 70%
University Of Mary Washington 70%
Brandeis University 69%
College Of The Holy Cross 68%
State University Of New York At Binghamton 68%
New York University 66%
State University Of New York At Geneseo 66%
Bucknell University 65%
Franklin & Marshall College 65%
Illinois Wesleyan University 65%
College Of William & Mary 64%
Carnegie Mellon University 63%
The College Of New Jersey 63%
University Of Rochester 61%
Connecticut College 61%
St. Mary's College Of Maryland 60%</p>
<p>So you're saying Boston College is a harder match than Yale and MIT?</p>
<p>A 3.9 is an amazing GPA if you were in college, but almost everyone I know at Northwestern has had that GPA in high school. So with a 2190, there's no way MIT, Dartmouth, Northwestern, Cornell, Chicago and Yale are possibly matches for anyone, Pierre.</p>
<p>For matches, I would consider, Lehigh, CMU, Pitt, Michigan, Wake Forest, Brandeis, Tufts, Rochester.</p>
<p>When one has SAT scores in 700's, and a high grade point average at their school and taking the most rigorous curriculum, the ivy league and top tier schools are not reaches in the sense of lets say someone who is not as competitive trying to reach themselves into a school. They are reaches for someone in the 700's ect only in so far as there are so many who apply and most are qualified but only a small percentage get in. What I mean is that with your scores and grades you are a candidate to apply to the ivy league and other top tier schools. They are reaches only because even with scores in the 50% range of those the school accepts, only a very small percentage are accepted. So schools like Yale, MIT, would be reaches.
A match school for you is a school in which your scores are in the 50% of those the college or university accepts, and the school accepts a higher percentage of those who are admitted than your reach list, and the percent of accepted students who attend is lower. That makes that school not as competitive even though it may be competitive
A safety school for you would be one in which your scores are in the 75% range or higher than those who are admitted.
Reach Schools given your stats:</p>
<p>College bound, you also have to look at breakdown. If a student has an SAT component that is considerably below a schools median, that has considerable impact. A 660CR is about 80 points below median at mid tier ivies like Dartmouth. High math scores are common, so the situation needs to be looked at broken down.</p>
<p>For selective schools, being at the low end of the 50th percentile does not make them a match.</p>
<p>Honestly, it's kind of a misnomer because if the entire deal were simply based on academic merit, the truth is Asians would be the dominant majority at most top schools (there was a study done at Berkeley on this that also conlcuded that Asian Americans were the group most affected by Affirmative Action, can't seem to retrieve the link so it's really kind of a take it or leave it statement I suppose), so it's anything but "over" representing the group. But that's life, right?</p>