Looking for a great fit!!!

<p>You should call the admissions offices, I'm sure you could do something like that.</p>

<p>Try the University of Virginia; it has a beautiful campus, medium town (I think about 50,000 people), moderate temperatures (not too hot, not too cold).</p>

<p>it's the competition for out-of-staters pretty tough for U of V? I've heard it's like ivy-league acceptance rates.</p>

<p>yea, it is</p>

<p>I would give it a shot your stats are good</p>

<p>k, so would I have basically no chance (i.e. <15% acceptance rate) of getting in? In other words, would it be a match or reach?</p>

<p>I'm not really sure, you can never really tell...maybe a little of both, but I definitely think you have a shot so apply (if the $40 app isn't an issue).</p>

<p>williams sounds like it would be good, somewhat a reach though</p>

<p>Okay, so let me try and recap this all</p>

<p>Reach: Williams, U of V
Reach/Match: WUSTL, Vandy
Match: Macalester, Reed
Match/Safety: Syracuse, Trinity, Kenyon and Hamilton
Safety: Earlham, U Maryland College Park, Rhodes</p>

<p>Sound good? Here are some of the other colleges I was looking at. Tell me if they sound good/bad, reach/match, etc.</p>

<p>Rice, Emory, U of Chicago, Carleton, Pomona, U of Washington, Cornell, Dartmouth, McGill (canada), U of St. Andrews (UK), and Princeton. Any thoughts?</p>

<p>I like your list, although Kenyon and Hamilton are in rural areas.</p>

<p>Your secondary list is full of good schools, too, but Cornell, Dartmouth and Carleton are not in cities. Excellent schools though,</p>

<p>Hey, how' s the scenery in all of these places? I hear that Cornell is quite beautiful.</p>

<p>I would not classify Kenyon, Trinity, or Hamilton as less than Matches. Too selective to be considered safeties. I know I said Trinity match safety before and your stats are right for that but selectivity is getting harder and harder at the east coast "matches."</p>

<p>k, I'll keep that in mind. So, what is U of Maryland College Park know for? Sciences? Arts? Football? ;p Anybody?</p>

<p>Anybody out there?</p>

<p><strong>bump</strong></p>

<p>You established from the outset a city size of 50,000+. But about half of your draft application list are schools in remote areas. If you actually don't care much about city size, as your draft application list suggests, then perhaps there are other schools you might also like that were not suggested, because people thought they didn't meet your city size requirements. Maybe.</p>

<p>I don't quite understand the suggestions folks are making either. The OP asks for city of 50,000+, and folks suggest Williams, Hamilton, and Kenyon. He says few preppies, and folks suggest the above three plus Trinity and Vandy! Then he says "no Abercrombie", and folks suggest the above five plus UVA and Rhodes and Dartmouth! None of those come close to meeting your description. And that's even putting aside his interest in Japanese.</p>

<p>Are people deliberately making fun of him?</p>

<p>Being from washington state, I would not call College Park a safety for a person from out of state.</p>

<p>P.S. U.S. news allows you to do a search by major. </p>

<p><a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/tools/brief/majors_search_brief.php%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/tools/brief/majors_search_brief.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Maybe that will give you a jumping off point</p>

<p>mini, most of the off target suggestions were offered with caveats.</p>

<p>But most of them weren't even close to what he was describing. Some of them don't even offer Japanese. Several don't have a town of 20,000 within an hour. 5 of them have student bodies that are 55-60% preppy, and tiny numbers of lower middle class students. At least four of the schools offer need-based aid to fewer than 45% of students, and of those 10% or so are Pell Grantees (low-income, not lower middle class), and of the rest, 80% are upper middle class, incomes of 80k and above. In other words, TINY percentages of lower middle-class students.</p>

<p>Yes, but don't most privates fit that description?</p>