Need safety schools and matches?

[ClassicRockerDad]

<p>livelylegend, you have a great record so there is very little chance that you would need your safety. Since you prefer NYU to any of the safeties, and NYU is like an 80% chance of admission, in order to have to resort to your safety, you will have to face massive rejection, which is a very low probability event. </p>

<p>In addition to or instead of BU, I would throw in one rolling admissions school, like UPitt or Ohio State, which have trivial applications, maybe 30 minutes tops, just so that you can sleep well before April 1. Ohio State’s deadline is Dec 1 for honors. I think Pitt is in mid January. Pitt and BU are almost academically identical in stature, and for Ohio State, since you will get into the Honors Program, it’s probably a little higher. They will both admit you before Christmas. It’s really nice going into the holiday season and the final push knowing that you ARE going to college. </p>

<p>Also, Georgetown and Notre Dame have unrestricted early action, so you should get those applications in by Nov 1. If you land one of them it becomes your safety, and you will know before you ever have to submit the BU application, so you can eliminate that and anything else that you prefer less to the school that admitted you. </p>

<p>My daughter used this “graduated” strategy to great success. She got into her rolling safety in October, got into two EA schools in December and only filled out 2 more reach applications that had the potential to be her first choice. Total of 5 apps, she’s going to her first choice, which was one of the EA schools. </p>

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Lehigh is almost a safety with your stats.

From our schools Naviance, Lehigh is by no means a safety with these stats. They have rejected great applicants in favor of good applicants. Not often, but enough to render it not sufficiently predictable to be a safety. </p>

<p>I think the rest of your list is a good list. It may seem like a lot, but if you don’t land Georgetown or Notre Dame EA, then maybe you need that many apps. If you do land an EA, then you can pair the list down a bit. </p>

<p>BTW, I don’t think Princeton and Harvard are unreasonable reaches for you. They are reaches though. </p>

<p>Good luck.</p>

[livelylegend]

<p>Thank you again fallenchemist and ClassicRockerDad :)</p>

<p>I will definitely be applying for scholarships, I most certainly agree, money is money. </p>

<p>Hmm I never knew Georgetown and Notre Dame were unrestricted, that’s really good to know!! and congratulations to your daughter, ClassicRockerDad, and thank you for your advice :)</p>

[justspice]

<p>Classicrockerdad- Georgetown is restrictive early action.</p>

[ClassicRockerDad]

<p>Negative. Georgetown says no problem to apply to other EA programs. They forbid applying to an ED program while you apply to Georgetown EA. </p>

<p>[Georgetown</a> University- Office of Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://uadmissions.georgetown.edu/applying_firstyear_earlyaction.cfm]Georgetown”>http://uadmissions.georgetown.edu/applying_firstyear_earlyaction.cfm)</p>

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Georgetown’s Early Action program is grounded in the belief that students should be free to choose among colleges until the Candidate’s Reply Date. Accordingly, accepted students will have the same reply date (May 1) as all candidates.</p>

<p>In keeping with this principle, students applying under the Early Action program may not apply at the same time to binding Early Decision programs since they then would not be free to choose Georgetown if admitted. Students are welcome to apply to other Early Action programs or other Regular Decision programs while at the same time applying to Georgetown’s Early Action program. </p>

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[quilll]

<p>I would definitely look at Mt. Holyoke if you are female. They have the loveliest equestrian facility and a very international student body. You can take classes at Amherst too.</p>

[livelylegend]

<p>I’m definitely going to be looking at Mt. Holyoke too, although I’m not sure how well I would do at an all-girls college… has anyone had experience with going to one?</p>

[justspice]

<p>Rockerdad- isn’t the non ED early action called restrictive EA? i guess our defnitions of restrictive differ.</p>

<p>Livelylegend, i would suggest Tulane for you as a match/safety. With your stats and EC’s you could possibly get a very large merit scholly from then.</p>

[citylife873]

<p>You have good qualifications. You’ll definitely get into Lehigh and NYU. What state do you live in? You should apply to your state school as a safety.</p>

[ClassicRockerDad]

<p>justspice, I don’t know. I know that Stanford and Yale are single choice EA. I thought that’s what restrictive means. </p>

<p>The OP didn’t mention ED anywhere. I just pointed out that she could apply EA to BOTH Georgetown and Notre Dame. </p>

<p>Also, of the five remaining seven sisters, Mt Holyoke has the lowest admissions standards. But even the most selective ones are not THAT selective because they exclude roughly half the population. You would have an excellent shot at Wellesley, Barnard, Bryn Mawr, and I think Smith and Mt. Holyoke would be safeties.</p>

[raiderade]

<p>Just so you know, 100k per student is not a ridiculous number. The very weak class at my school last year earned 141k in scholarship money on average per student.</p>

[fallenchemist]

<p>raiderade - it isn’t that $100K per student is ridiculous in terms of total scholarships offered by a college to students at a school. That isn’t what the poster said originally, however. They said that was how much the high school was giving to each student. Two very different things.</p>

[raiderade]

<p>Oh okay, that makes sense. Misread OP.</p>