<p>While many people need match or safety schools, my list is full of them. My problem is i do not really have a reach. Considering my list, could anyone suggest any reasonable reach schools? I am looking to go into the business field. </p>
<p>My college list:
UConn
Northeastern
James Madison
American
University of Vermont
UMass-Amherst</p>
<p>Stats:
GPA: 3.3 uw
Rank: 48/248 15%
SAT: 1960 (720M, 630V, 610W)
ECs: Varsity Golf 9-12 (Captain this year)
Baseball 9-12
JV Basketball 9-10
Courses: 3 APs (Spanish, Calculus, English) and almost all the rest honors</p>
<p>My S has similar stats to yours. He applied to NE and JMU too. I think you have an excellent shot at JMU unlike what the poster said, esp. from oos. It is a great school, but since it is rural I think they take a lots more kids from oos w these stats than from instate (although I do not think JMU would admit that). Anyway, I was just wondering how you plan to get home from JMU on holidays and breaks. It is an hour from the Charlottesville airport, and 2 hours from Dulles. How do you get to the airport from JMU short of driving yourself? Thanks for you help if you know.</p>
<p>Well UVA is "rural too", so whatever. JMU, like most other Virginia schools is probably a bit more particular on their OOS applicants. JMU boasts a 3.67 average GPA and this school is particularly GPA driven. JMU is truly a reach school for this applicant because he has a low GPA. This is not a match school. That's all I was posting about. He has a very good chance at acceptance, but with his GPA, JMU is a reach BECAUSE he is OOS. This is a fact. That said, I wish him luck and hope he gets in.</p>
<p>pedsox, I see. I did see some charts on acceptances from oos (naviance) and it seems as though acceptances go a little easier on the oos student, than the instate kid. I may be totally wrong, or it may be the strength of the hs. I did see many rejections of students with as high as a 3.5 and 1200- 1250 instate (just look at past posts here).</p>
<p>mini, it's not that i necessarily need a reach school but i'd like another school or 2 to apply to and i already have a solid list of matches with many larger universities. I'd like to have a couple more mid-sized, private colleges on my list and if my family and i are going to dish out a great amount of money, which these type of schools tend to cost, i'd prefer to try and get into a tougher, higher ranked school.</p>
<p>Also, i didn't think JMU would be that difficult as i have a friend with weaker stats than mine who was accepted last year, but according to some of you, it's tougher than i thought.</p>
<p>My question is directed at whether there are particular qualities you are looking for in a "reach" that would be better than what you already find in your matches. If it is simply "ranking", you can use any of the commercial ranking scales - USNWR or Princeton or wherever -- and pick schools accordingly. If it is quality of academics, you can go to PR or Fiske and look for schools with high "rankings" in that regard. </p>
<p>What qualities are you looking for that your matches lack?</p>
<p>How about BU and George Washington as addtions - since you already have American and Northeastern? Tufts, Lehigh, Richmond....But it does seem rather late in the game to be generating ideas, or are you a junior?</p>
<p>slightly erie, I applied to many of the same places... Uconn, Umass, & UVM I had roughly a 3.4 gpd 1410 old sat's I applied to Bucknell as a comfy reach, got in, and am going here. I also applied to Colgate and Skidmore and a few UC's</p>
<p>I have been researching Colgate the past few days. It seems like a great place for me and i'm seriously considering applying. So does Colgate seem like a reasonable reach? Would I have a halfway decent shot at acceptance?</p>
<p>Equine99, did you get into Colgate and Skidmore with stats which are slightly better than mine?</p>
<p>Colgate is an excellent liberal arts college and would make a good reach for you. It is different from the schools in your original list. Colgate (and Hamilton) are smaller liberal arts colleges focusing on the traditional arts and sciences disciplines. The original list consisted of universities. If you are interested in LACs, that would open up more possibilities.</p>