<p>^ Put Northwestern up a notch.</p>
<p>Reach:
UVA
Akron</p>
<p>Safety:
Harvard
Yale
UPENN</p>
<p>^ You’re too funny.</p>
<p>tk, would you mind taking a look at my list? (It’s on page 2 I think)</p>
<p>USC is my big reach but other schools I’m considering are American and UPitt.</p>
<p>NulliSecundus, your list looks pretty coherent. Many of them share some fairly clear similarities of size, location, style, etc. However, as I’ve commented before, it’s hard to tell if a list of schools is appropriate unless you first provide some stats and a few words about your interests. Some general remarks about your financial situation also would be helpful. What state are you in? Virginia?</p>
<p>If your stats are high enough and you do live in Virgina (but not DC-suburban Northern Virginia for reasons you may understand if you live there) the 5 at the top of your post would nearly comprise an adequate list – for somebody. Not necessarily you! For a kid with mostly A’s, decent ECs, SATs around 2100 or above, good LORs etc, whose family can afford the tuitions, it would be no more than one or two schools short of a nice list.</p>
<p>Unless your school limits the number of applications, I think 6 is too few. Why not 10? Some schools have difficult essays, but many don’t. I also wouldn’t eliminate a reach just because you think you have a favorite school and it’s easier to get into. (the why Yale if your favorite is Bowdoin example). Because you might change your mind. Or you might regret later that you didn’t try.</p>
<p>Reaches: UPenn
Columbia
Stanford
Amherst</p>
<p>High Matches: Northwestern
Rice
Pomona</p>
<p>Safety: U of Washington at Seattle</p>
<p>Basic Stats: 2210 SAT I (CR 660, M 800, Wr 750) 800 Math II
Will exhaust school’s AP resource by graduation , 3.9 UW
Top 16 table junior tennis player in BC
AIME for sopho/junior, Fermat contest Gold Medal
200+ hrs community service, a couple of leadership position by graduation</p>
<p>I’m not sure about what an ideal safety school would be. Even if a school accepts more than 2/3 of its applicants and if I’m above the median SAT scores, I don’t know whether the school is a safety or a likely match.</p>
<p>I live in California. I’d like to be a journalism major. It’s my main passion, though my video production class allowed me to appreciate film more. I currently have a 3.6 unweighted GPA and a 4.1 weighted. By the time I graduate, I’ll have taken seven AP courses. Based on practice tests, my projected SAT score is 2100 and my ACT score is likely going to be between 30 and 32. My involvement as an editor of the school newspaper and the president of the Red Cross Club are my main EC’s. </p>
<p>I picked colleges from the Northeast and the West, though my parents would like me to stick to California schools. Most of the schools are “big-name” schools, though I’m trying to branch out to include smaller lesser-known schools.</p>
<p>Reach:
NYU
UCSD (no journalism, but Digital Media major could be very fitting)
USC</p>
<p>Match
Boston U
Northeastern U
Syracuse (my #1 school)
UC Irvine (not particularly the most prestigious, but I heard its journalism program is decent)
University of Washington (love the campus and I was impressed with facilities and programs)</p>
<p>Safety:
University of Oregon
UC Santa Cruz (no journalism, but a nice film program and it’s closest to home)</p>
<p>Reach: Duke, Vandy, Emory, Georgetown, Washington & Lee
Match: Wake Forest
Safety: UGA</p>
<p>^^ Just a heads up to Action. If you’re planning to go into journalism, 'Cuse might be a high match or even a reach. Newhouse is extremely prestigious and competitive for admissions (as I’m sure you know). It does sound like you’re on a good path though. Just my worthless two cents.</p>
<p>Reaches: HYP, Columbia (might eliminate Princeton though; plan on going into the humanities and political science)
Match: University of Michigan Ann Arbor (yay for living right here in Ann Arbor!)
Safeties: University of Toronto, University of British Columbia (I’m a Canadian citizen)</p>
<p>Reaches: Northwestern, possibly University of Chicago and Notre Dame
Matches: Marquette, George Washington, American, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Saftey: Illinois Wesleyan, Marymount U</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>University of Nebraska-Lincoln
University of Alabama
University of Iowa</p>
<p>[Fratty</a>, Fratty, Fratty: The Fratty Frat Hard at Frattinghard.com, The Institute of Fratology](<a href=“http://www.frattinghard.com%5DFratty”>http://www.frattinghard.com)</p>
<p>High Reach: N/A, I want a full ride or very close to it.</p>
<p>High Match/Low Reach: Duke, Vanderbilt</p>
<p>Match: Georgia Tech</p>
<p>Full Ride Match: UT - Knoxville, Auburn</p>
<p>This is going to be added to/narrowed down, but as of now…</p>
<p>Reaches: Brown, UPenn, Columbia, Georgetown, Duke, Vanderbilt, John Hopkins</p>
<p>Matches: NYU, UMiami, UNC Chapel Hill, Boston University</p>
<p>Safeties: Fordham, URI</p>
<p>Not sure which categories these other schools fit into: Emory, Boston College, UVA…probably high matches/low reaches</p>
<p>Carleton College ED. As simple as that.</p>
<p>Reaches: HYPMS.
High Matches: UChicago, Northwestern, Washington St Louis, Notre Dame
Safety: UMichigan (instate+rolling decisions+I know no one in my school who has a 3.7 and 30+ that was denied. Also, it’s cheap in state)</p>
<p>So I’m 99.99% I will get into UM, which is a good school and cheap for me. That’s why the rest of my list is such a reach. As time goes on, I’ll probably Princeton out, but idk for now.</p>
<p>Reaching to the sky: MIT, Stanford, Harvey Mudd, John Hopkins, U california berkeley
Matches: unsure
Safeties: UT(in state)</p>
<p>definitely needs developing=X</p>
<p>I enjoy perusing everyone’s preliminary lists.</p>
<p>As a side note, I am fairly certain that silverturtle will receive admission to just about every university that he applies to.</p>
<p>looking at big sport schools with good engineering programs</p>
<p>reaches: Cornell, UVA</p>
<p>matches: UMich, Maryland-College Park</p>
<p>Safties: UConn, Penn State, Illinois-Urbana</p>
<p>umich is my top choice but im oos so im worried about the high costs so im hoping for good financial aid and/or merit aid</p>
<p>any other suggestions to my list would be appreciated</p>