<p>As I begin to wrap up my junior year in a few short months, please help to generate a list of colleges STRICTLY based on academic presence.</p>
<p>Hardest schedule at a very competitive private school
3.7 UW GPA
32 ACT
2050 SAT</p>
<p>I am looking for good matches. I have financial/academic safeties as well as reach schools, but I need help coming up with match schools. Thank you in advance:)</p>
<p>Matches: NYU, GWU, Rochester, Boston College, USC, Umiami, Georgetown, Emory, Michigan, Notre Dame.</p>
<p>I recommend that you don’t submit your SAT, just your ACT.</p>
<p>Well a number of schools could be matches…what are you interested in majoring in and what location is ideal?</p>
<p>University of Alabama financial safety since its really easy to get a full ride there.</p>
<p>muhlenebrg college
rollins college
brandeis university</p>
<p>EDIT: I want to major in either Biology or Biochem, if that makes a differnce</p>
<p>Rhodes College
Trinity U (San Antonio)</p>
<p>My son had similar stats (3.64 UW, 34 ACT, 1480/2100 1st sitting SAT) and the above were schools he applied and was accepted. The difficulty with these stats is that many schools do NOT match - he fell either into low reach or high safety. </p>
<p>We were unaware going into the process how many high schools have grade inflation and how many colleges use unweighted GPA. </p>
<p>You will have the best luck at schools that:
recalc to their own GPA
are very holistic and spend enough time to look at all your courses
use weighted GPA</p>
<p>I don’t think the US News Rankings are the be all/end all, but looking at schools ranked in the 40-80 range is a great start point.</p>
<p>I just went back and looked at some of your older posts – Are you still more interested in a Uni instead of a LAC?</p>
<p>Urban/Suburb instead of Rural?</p>
<p>I saw that you are an URM and a swimmer. Do you want to continue swimming in college?</p>
<p>Do you need financial aid?</p>
<p>With a careful strategy, what may be a low reach for your stats could actually be a match based upon your background and ECs.</p>
<p>@Longhaul, I am looking for universities primarily, urban/suburban community and I do wish to swim in college but am only suited for the D2 or D3 level. I have financial schools in mind, but i need help determining where i fall academically</p>
<p>A 32 ACT is right at the middle for a lot of great schools for biology and biochem - Wash U, Tufts and Hopkins all come to mind. However, I think with they’re sub 20% acceptance rates they’re really “reaches” for pretty much everyone, especially if you have a 3.7 (unclear the context of your high school, of course) but I’d still visit/apply to them all.</p>
<p>Safer “matches” might be Emory, Wake Forest, Southern Cal, Michigan, and Rochester. Good luck!</p>
<p>Add Case Western. Otherwise, I agree with U Rochester, Emory, etc.</p>
<p>Thank you everyone for your replies!</p>
<p>Bump bump bump</p>
<p>Trinity University
Rice
JHU
Vanderbilt
WUSTL</p>