<p>your choices are a little odd. you have all these big schools in/near cities on your list...then swarthmore.</p>
<p>I think you need to concentrate a bit more on matches, and a little less on reaches - as reaches make up half your list. Since your school doesn't rank, your gpa will hurt you a lot. Syracuse, Wisconsin Madison, Penn State - i these places arn't in a city, but they're so big you it won't make a difference. also american, catholic u., fordham will all be safeties --> most probably with lots of $ thrown at you.</p>
<p>also, i wouldn't dump rutgers off your list. rutgers college (main campus) is very good. that comment about new jersey kids at a lot of schools stems from the fact that new jersey doesn't have a lot of public schools (and only 2 that are for students with competitive stats, tcnj and rutgers college) and that there are just a ton of kids from new jersey.</p>
<p>Have you been in the east or ever lived here? I'd suggest, if you can swing it, spend a week maybe this summer and visit a lot of these places....they are very different, but on the plus side, geographically a lot are near each other. </p>
<p>My take is you have a decent chance for NYU especially if you do ED, which would solve all your problems. Things look good but 3.5 and verbal SAT 610 which imo would keep you out of super-reaches. But you have time to bring both up. To cut down the list to a dozen here's my suggestion:</p>
<p>ED: NYU Stern --- I think you're 50-50 or higher. Good luck!</p>
<p>Super -Wharton
-Columbia (doubt these are gonna happen)</p>
<p>Reach -Northwestern
-CMU Tepper
-Chicago</p>
<p>Match -Michigan (Ross is reach)
-MD
-BU
-BC (you seem to like Boston)
-Villanova</p>
<p>Jags86 is right about Wisconsin-Madison. Great college and great college town. Never met anyone who went there who wasn't wild about the place. Wisconsin is a lot like Michigan-Ann Arbor. Wisconsin is easier to get into but it's significantly colder there.</p>
<p>Not so sure somebody who's looking for a big city nearby would be very pleased with Penn State or Syracuse. I'm sure both are great places, but they are both a half-day's drive from anything resembling a cosmopolitan big city.</p>
<p>Thanks for questioning my New Jersey comment, Jags. What I was trying to say didn't come out quite right. I was trying to be polite, and ended up being vague. Let me try it again. I'd never lived outside the Midwest until I was 16 and my family moved to Mass. Quite a jolt! People in the East are like people everywhere, but you have to admit they come off a little harsh and aggressive when you are first exposed to them. And among the Easterners, I think most people would agree that New Jerseyites provide the biggest jolt to Midwestern/Southern/Western sensibilities. Having attended several colleges in the Northeast, I feel comfortable in saying that having even a few New Jerseyites around provides plenty of "edge." My best friend in college was from New Jersey, but going to Rutgers, where they are the majority, is more edge than I think most people from other parts of the country are prepared for. I'd be interested in how many people from outside New Jersey who have first-hand familiarity with the Garden State and its fine citizens are dying to get into any college there other than Princeton. </p>
<p>By the way, when I was in high school in Mass., the guidance counselor and I were discussing colleges. At that time I had no familiarity with New Jersey. I mentioned Rutgers. The counselor sat back and asked, "Have you ever been to New Jersey or known anyone from there?"</p>
<p>I find jersey gets a lot of grief from people not from it - and most of it is underserving. Most peoples experience with new jersey revolves around driving through it on the turnpike - and its not the most glamorous road to say the least. But atleast if he goes in jersey, he'll learn how to drive properly ;-).</p>
<p>Your comments about new jersey people i do find amusing - mostly because I agree with your sentiments somewhat. Maybe I'm being harsh for saying this, but I've always found the guido jersey kids to be more annoying than anything i can think of. If any of you have ever seen the show growing up gatti - yes kids do act/dress like that. I guess it is a culture shock - and believe me, whenever I come home from virginia i can't believe ive lived in the same house for 20 years of my life. However, i don't think its going to be a culture shock of epic proportions for the OP.</p>
<p>I will admit though - i believe most of the non-steriotypical jersey kids don't end up going to school in jersey.</p>
<p>International Business -- you will be part of the lifeblood of international business -- transportation and shipping -- You will spend a year at sea make port calls around the world.</p>
<p>It is fully paid for and you will be ready for B-School with more real life experience than any of your peers.</p>
<p>I agree, UM-Ann Arbor would be a definite match. Are you interested in state schools at all? University of North Carolina and University of Virginia both have excellent business programs... though they're not northeast.</p>
<p>I like NJ (live there) and Rutgers is a good school but I can't see any reason why someone from California would cross the country to go there. It's a bargain if you're in-state...but Rutgers doesn't seem to draw from other states like other big state schools. UNC yes, UVA yes, but not Rutgers.</p>
<p>Is NYU Stern ED really a reach - your SAT's are over 1400 and your weighted GPA is 3.9 which are the stats I hope to get and I thought I'd get into NYU Stern ED. Michigan on the other hand really is obsessed with GPA and probably won't take an OOS with less than 3.7 unweighted from what I've heard. Also your better off going to a school that accepts you directly into business. Not Michigan. You might not get into business as a junior. Also, I thought I'd have a good shot at Tepper with similar stats.</p>
<p>I think what my friend jags86 is trying to say is that if you've had 18 years to sift through 3,000 colleges, the last thing you want to hear from your new roommate on your first day on campus is, "Yo, I'm Vinnie from Hoboken. Welcome to Rutgers!"</p>
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<p>Scarsdale (rich, snobby sururb of NYC).</p>
<p>The 3.9 is if I were to give 1 point for every honors/AP class I take and don't calculate +s or -s(4 for A, A-, 3 for B+/B/B-, 2 for C+/C/C-, so forth)...it's actually 3.84 if calculated that way. Apparently my GPA is actually a 3.52 (this is from the school...no A+, .3 for honors/AP, 4 for A, 3.7 for A-, 3.3 for B+, so on and so forth) I'm really depressed-I hope that's what I have for the term, not cumulative. Because last time I looked my cum was ~3.56 and if it went down that much, that's bad news.</p>
<p>My problem is that all my schools are safeties if you look exclusively at SAT scores, and all my schools are reaches if you look exclusively at GPA. I hope they won't count the GPA against me...especially with the SAT score...</p>
<p>THANK GOD. I just checked naviance again, and it says my GPA is a 3.52, but doesn't list a WEIGHTED GPA. This could be a good or bad thing, depending on what those mean.</p>
<p>GPA: 3.520<br>
Weighted GPA: - </p>
<p>BTW, is transferring to Wharton or NYU Stern that hard? If I were to only be able to go to my safety, I'd probably want to transfer...</p>
<p>IHateCA, could you post your current list (reach, match, safety, etc.) which has hopefully been honed a bit by all the sage comments from your friends here? (And If I see Rutgers on it, I'm going to scream.) That will allow us to nitpick and make self-serving comments about the the schools that are still in the running, and not waste time on ones that have been scratched off your lists.</p>
<p>Super Reach
-PENN Wharton
-Columbia
-Northwestern University
-University of Chicago</p>
<p>Reach:
-Brown
-Swarthmore College
-Georgetown University/McDonough
-Carnegie Mellon/Tepper
-NYU Stern ED
-University of Michigan/Ross
-UVA/McIntire
-University of North Carolina/Kenan-Flagler</p>
<p>Match:
Help?</p>
<p>Safe Match/Safety:
-Boston University
-University of Maryland
-Boston College
-George Washington University
-UC Davis</p>
<p>Safety:
-Arizona State University/Business
-Bentley College
-Babson College
-Northeastern University</p>
<p>My GPA is 3.47(published by school)/3.83(weighted) now. I think SAT should be like 2160-2200. The figure I provided before is a projection from PSAT.</p>
<p>American University would be a match.
Catholic University would be a saftey.
Washington University in St. Louis would be a reach.
Notre Dame would be a reach/match.
Your list is already huge though, so now I would start eliminating schools, like UC-Davis....
Also, I don't really consider anything a match. If you think about it your either probably going to get in or probably not going to get in. And in the end, you either got in, or you didn't get in. So really there is no middle ground.</p>