It's probably a bad thing to have more reaches than matches and safeties...

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey there. I know I just posted here, but I'm really trying to get my final list of colleges that I'm applying to all ready to go before senior year starts. I've eliminated a lot of them from my list, due to lack of interest, and I've found that I really don't have any safeties that I like. Also, I think I could use another match. </p>

<p>I'm a Pennsylvania resident who wants to go to school in any state but PA. Really, ANY other state is fine. I'd really prefer a school in the city, though. </p>

<p>Here are my stats again:</p>

<p>Public School student going into senior year
Caucasian Female
3.81 UW GPA
1st Decile (class of around 600)
State: PA</p>

<p>SAT - 1950
CR - 650
M - 630
W - 670 (10 on essay)
Taking it again in October after studying. If I can up it into the 2000s/1300s, will my chances at any of the schools improve?</p>

<p>SAT II
German - 570 (taking at least two more so this one can be forgotten)</p>

<p>EC's</p>

<p>-National Honor Society
-won second place at the German Fallfest Competition at Millersville University
-scored in the 85 percentile on the AATG German exam
-vocal ensemble club during ninth grade
-Quizbowl during tenth grade
-working as a cashier at a supermarket for almost a year
- treasurer of Student Historians club at my school
-worked with special needs kids and helped them do crafts/helped organize activities for them to do (during school for the past two years)
-"Walking Tour"...about to be a tour guide for the elementary school kids for the second year in a row. I take them to different historically significant landmarks in our town and explain why they're important.
-Civil War Reenacting in Gettysburg for the past four years</p>

<p>APs: 11th grade I took Stat and got a 3 on the test (I suck at math). 12th grade I'm taking Economics, Biology, German, and American History</p>

<p>Other classes: Honors for everything except science, and I'm moving up to AP senior year. I also dropped down in math, wanted to move back up, but wasn't permitted. >:-(</p>

<p>Major: Undeclared</p>

<p>Schools:</p>

<p>George Washington U
NYU CAS
U of Delaware
U of Maryland
U of Southern California
Emory U (I'm only applying here if I get my SATs way higher)</p>

<p>There's one local school that I have as a safety, but that's it. Are there any nice schools out of Pennsylvania and in or near a city that I could consider matches/safeties? Thanks.</p>

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<p>The schools where the increased SATs would really help (besides Emory) are NYU and USC.</p>

<p>Ohio State in Columbus would be a safe match/safety for you, as would the University of Washington in Seattle and Indiana University in Bloomington (a mid-sized town) would be a safety. I think Fordham in New York City and North Carolina in Chapel Hill would also be safe matches to matches for you.</p>

<p>You having an undeclared major makes it tough to recommend a school for you. I recommended Indiana because of their good foreign language programs (you seem to like German). I recommended Ohio State and North Carolina because of their great history programs.</p>

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<p>^ I think UNC is a high match/low reach because of their insane OOS admissions. Get that SAT in the 1300s and you should be in, though.</p>

<p>Definately look at Indiana. Very underrated school. Also, I don't know if you know this but Emory has a school called Oxford College that is similar to BU's College of General Studies. Lower admissions requirements and stuff. You spend your first two years there doing prereqs and then can move into the big university. Check that out too.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the suggestions. I looked at the Oxford one, and it's tiny :( I'll take a look at Indiana, though, and, though my parents would kill me, U Washington sounds really appealing (hey, USC's really far, too, so what's the big deal?). I liked the Ohio school, too. </p>

<p>"The schools where the increased SATs would really help (besides Emory) are NYU and USC."</p>

<p>So by really help, would it move those schools down to high matches, rather than reaches?</p>

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<p>It's small, but it's a part of the big university.</p>

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<p>But Oxford's in Oxford, GA, according to Collegeboard. Is that like a walk away from Atlanta or something?</p>

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<p>Ohhh, oh. Nevermind, I get it now. </p>

<p>Anyway, BUMP...more ideas for safeties/matches?</p>

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<p>Bump...any other ideas for safeties? Would UT Austin be a match?</p>