Hi I’m a junior from ma. I go to a highly ranked high school in my state that is extremely competitive. however, our AP program is small. Only AP chem and APUSH were offered this year and neither fit into my schedule. I plan to possibly take AP Bio, AP STATS, or AP GOV (would choose one or two).
My stats:
3.88 GPA (unweighted), 4.28 weighted (all honors, and regular math)
Course Rigor:
(freshman year honors is highest level one can take)
Freshman year:
Honors english
Honors History
Honors spanish
Regular Physics
Regular Math
Sophomore Year:
Honors english
regular math
honors chemistry
honors spanish
honors history
Junior Year:
Honors english
Honors Biology
Honors Spanish
Honors history
Regular Math
Extracurriculars:
Editor for my school newspaper
President and founder of current events club
Social Justice Leadership Program
Internship with organization attempting to diminish achievement gap
racial awareness class
Costa Rica Community service
SAT Scores-- will prob stick with the SATS. So far just started practicing and I am aiming to get around the 650-700 range for each subject.
I want a fun school, but also one that is serious about academics and has a large jewish student population.
For safeties I’ve been suggested:
Syracuse (my sister attends), but also heard this would be a target
UVM
Penn state
Wisconsin Madison-some have said this is a target what do you think?
A safety must be affordable. Can your family afford an OOS public U like Penn State? Run the Net Price Calculator on each school’s web site and discuss the numbers with your parents. One of the UMass schools would be an obvious safety.
A safety school is a school that is affordable and that you would be happy to attend. When you get your standardized test scores and know what your family can spend then you can start to look for safety schools.
Thanks for your responses. Cost isn’t really a concern, so safeties for me are just back ups incase I don’t get into the schools I am super passionate about!
What’s your budget?
For AP, AP stats and AP Gov would seem to match your profile well.
Muhlenberg, Goucher, Towson, would all be low matches/safeties to you as long as you start demonstrating interest this year (fill out request info form, for instance).
However run the NPC to see if they’re affordable.
Thanks for your reply. My parents have told me $65,00 is the budget as thats what they pay for my sister. I’ve heard of muhlenberg, but want a bigger schoo. People have told Syracuse would be a safety (not newhouse) because my sister attends there.
Apply to Towson then, it’s bigger and it has a honors college (although it’s worth trading size for quality and I think highly of Muhlenberg).
Syracuse would be a match, not a safety.
My sister would be a senior when I am freshman. My parents tell me they value our education more than the cost. In In other words, they’d rather have us go to a better school with better alumni base as a long term investment than a worse school. Again, cost is not too much of a concern.
Hmm. Okay. I’ve been told by a college counselor Syracuse is a safety. Not interested in Towson because had cousin who went there HATED it transferred to UMD (university of maryland).
It’s a safety for stats but unless you show interest it’ll assume you’re using them as a backup and they don’t like that.
Other potential safeties would include FSU (honors, probably) and USF in Florida, College of Charleston Honors.