Need Matches, Good Safeties

College Search & Selection
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<p>Location: Illinois
Male
Middle Class-120,000</p>

<p>Gpa: 5.08/5.00 so like 4.08/4.00
ACT:31
Total AP Classes:8 including Ap World, AP US History, AP GOV, AP Language, AP Economics, AP Bio, AP Calc, AP Spanish
Class Rank:70/570</p>

<p>EC's: Spanish Club, Polish School (3-11 grade, 4 hrs a week), JV Soccer (...weak i know)</p>

<p>Looking for colleges preferrably in the Midwest. Doesnt have to be in Illinois or anything. Has to be decent in terms of aid because although we are middle class, my parents do not want to pay a ton. </p>

<p>So I have some reaches but Im still looking for some solid safeties and matches. Thanks! SIze does not matter alot but I liek medium schools around 10000</p>

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<p>Bump plz!!!</p>

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<p>So did you eliminate all of the LACs in the midwest because of the size?</p>

<p>I’d help but I’m mostly familiar with LACs</p>

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<p>No LAC are fine too. Im not sre what size yet ha</p>

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<p>You have a 5.08/5.00 GPA and you are not in the top 10% of your class? Don’t take this the wrong way, but does your school have a passing familiarity with grade inflation?</p>

<p>Other than that, your ACT score is good and it appears you have sought out a challenging curriculum. The ECs, as you have noted, are nothing spectacular. That said, matches might include Illinois Wesleyan, Ohio Wesleyan, Earlham, Denison. Possible safeties might include Lake Forest, Augustana, UICU, Iowa, Minnesota.</p>

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<p>Some midwest good LACs that might be worth looking into:</p>

<p>Reach/Match (because of ecs):
Carleton College (MN)
Grinnell College (Iowa)
WashU
Northwestern
U of Chicago </p>

<p>Matches/Safeties:
Oberlin (Ohio)
Kenyon (Ohio)
Macalester (MN)
Augustana
St. Olaf (MN)
Knox College</p>

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<p>Yea i know. My schools like top 5 public in Illinois. Hopefully I can break the 10% mark =D</p>

<p>Thansk for the suggestions!</p>