<p>I'm a high school sophomore starting my college search early.</p>
<p>Currently I have a 3.7 UW GPA - which will be at least a 3.9 UW by senior year.<br>
I also got a 26 (low, I know) on my ACT, which I'm gonna try to get to a 31 at least.
EC's - Varsity Debate & Forensics ( 4th & 12 place at National qualifyers)
Student Council Event Coordinator (aiming to be VP Junior year, President Senior Yr.)
NHS ( will hopefully become president Senior year)
Class of 2013 Fundraising Coordinator and Cabinet Member
500+ hours of communites
Camp Counselor for 2 years
Attended 3 summer camps
1) Engineering Camp at MU
2) Health Sciences at UMKC
3) Business at Park University</p>
<p>This is not all, but its what I cant think of right now. </p>
<p>I've been looking at schools for a while and can't seem to find a MATCH SCHOOL</p>
<p>My Reach Schools are: Washington University in St. Louis and Northwestern University
My Current Safeties are: Unversity of Kansas, University of Missouri - Columbia, and Kansas State University.</p>
<p>From my higher stats ( the 31 ACT and 3.9 GPA ) can anyone list some possible MATCH schools for me. Preferably in the midwest.</p>
<p>Just to clarify I want to Double Major in Business Admin. w/ a marketing emphasis and Graphic/Communication design if possible.</p>
<p>A regular BSBA is fine I guess - just to get more options. Thanks</p>
<p>Boston College
Boston University
Emory University
NYU Stern (may be a bit of a reach though)
Georgetown
UC’s
Tufts
Brandeis</p>
<p>I’m not sure about your specific major but these are a match for your current stats IF you raise up that ACT score.</p>
<p>it seems difficult to me to raise your unweighted gpa during your junior and senior years. freshman and sophomore years were much easier (at least at my school), and if you’re taking lots of aps and such, it will take lots of hard work to actually raise your unweighted gpa. unless maybe you took crazy hard ap classes during freshman and sophomore years. not to say it’s impossible.</p>
<p>To be honest I just don’t know what happened during my freshman year with my GPA . I know getting it up won’t be a problem though. I will be taking some AP’s but I’m not worried about it.</p>
<p>And thanks purplepoppy … Haven’t really thought about branching out from the Midwest , but it may be worth it .</p>
<p>I’m not going to list potential matches for you because honestly it’s probably a bad idea to formulate your list from a message board. I will say this, though: Why do you need three safeties? It seems to me that as long as you’re guaranteed admission, you should just pick the one you like most. The only reason I can think of to apply to more is if you’re unsure which you would want to attend.</p>
<p>As of right now I haven’t done any college visits, but I know all of those schools offer the major I want. Once I do some visits and interviews I may not like any of them… Haha , but I understand what your saying. </p>
<p>And it’s not that I’m only looking at the schools given on this forum, but I was just looking for a little guidance… There are SO MANY options. Lol</p>
<p>lol I’m just biased like that. But seriously, there are many good Boston area schools that you should look into that you have a good shot at.</p>
<p>OP, how much can your family afford to pay for college? That’s the first question you need to answer. You should also have your parents figure out their Estimated Family Contribution, or EFC. This will give you a sense of just how much many colleges will expect your family to pay, at minimum. [Financial</a> Aid EasyPlanner - Step 3: EFC Calculator](<a href=“http://apps.collegeboard.com/fincalc/ep/step3-1.jsp]Financial”>http://apps.collegeboard.com/fincalc/ep/step3-1.jsp)</p>
<p>purplepoppy lists some great schools, but only Boston U and Brandeis might be matches. The others sound like reaches. It sounds like you’re a Kansas resident; if you don’t have unlimited funds, don’t consider the University of California campuses. UC for out of state students will cost $50k a year, with very little financial aid available. </p>
<p>If you’re going to spend some time this summer studying for the ACT, use it instead to study for your junior year PSAT. Earning a high enough score can make you eligible for some big scholarships. The qualifying score for Kansas for the class of 2011 was, I think, 212, which would be equivalent to an SAT score of 2120.</p>
<p>I’m actually a Missouri resident , but the Kansas border is 5 minutes from my house so Kansas schools are considered - especially since I might be eligible for in-state tuition. </p>
<p>The whole finical situation is an interesting one. My parents and I haven’t seriously had the paying for college conversation, but I know the cheaper the better. Lol I will say they didn’t discourage me from applying to the 50k+ a year , Washington University . </p>
<p>That’s a good point about the PSAT. I took it as a sophomore, for practice, and received a 160 ? I’m not sure , but I need to boost my scores substantially in all areas. </p>
<p>Would anyone recommend me taking the SAT? Not very popular at all here in Missouri, but it’s still available.</p>
<p>Thanks guys.</p>
<p>SAT vs ACT: some people do better on one than the other, so it’s worth it to take both just to see if you’ll do better on the other one. Studying for and taking the PSAT will give you a sense of if you’re more an ACT person or an SAT person. Schools will accept either. It’s worth it to check out test dates and registration deadlines now for both tests for next year. </p>
<p>Absolutely you should apply to WUStL, but do your parents a favor, and have them run the financial calculator. Just about every parent is floored the first time they do–typical EFC is between 25-33% of household income :eek: And that’s for EACH year, not for all four years total. :eek: :eek: </p>
<p>Parents love their kids and want to give them everything, and tell them “you worry about getting in, we’ll worry about paying for it.” And then the acceptance comes, and not enough financial aid, and suddenly the school isn’t affordable unless everyone takes out huge loans. Better to figure out early on what’s going to be affordable. Your safeties should be schools that you can definitely afford, even without financial aid.</p>
<p>I’ll look at both the ACT and SAT …</p>
<p>But yea. I’ve heard from family members that FAFSA is kind of pointless for any household that makes over 100k a year … Of course it’s free money so I will take advantage of it though. I think our EFC is around 38,000 … I just need to talk to the parents to see what their thoughts are on paying that much… I’ll probably have to pitch in as well since they both paid for their own college educations.</p>
<p>It sounds like the first thing to do is to sort out finances. I’ve seen quite a few friends of mine unable to attend their top choice privates for financial reasons–because their parents didn’t want or think think they didn’t to have the money conversation. Frankly, only the very top schools have the endowments to offer reasonable finaid packages to the middle class. If your parents haven’t discussed finances with you, it may be because they just don’t know much about costs these days or don’t realize what they’re expected to pay. So sit them down and have that conversation now.</p>
<p>That’s a very good point . I will do that soon… It sucks being right in the middle … Not rich enough to where I don’t have to worry about paying for college and not poor enough to get my education paid for… I’m right in the middle… </p>
<p>Again - Thanks for your help guys.</p>