Fairleigh-Dickinson might be a solid safety for you, since finances aren’t a huge concern. There are lots of internship opportunities in the area.
I don’t think WFU and Richmond are necessarily matches. My DD’s stats: 3.86 UW, 4.3 W, 1460 SAT. From AZ (under-represented state at those 2 schools). Waitlisted at WFU. Accepted to Richmond. I’m afraid, with your stats, that a couple of your safeties are the “matches” and not safeties at all. Go through the “results” threads at your schools and you’ll see the reality of kids with great stats who didn’t get into your list of reaches and matches. Not to be harsh, but I’d hate to see your post next year with not enough acceptances. Does your school use Naviance? Better than checking CDS, check how students from your school did getting into your selected schools. Good luck to you.
If your UW GPA is out of a 4.0, your WGPA cannot be out of a 4.0. Math.
Our HS publishes GPAs as for example 4.5/4.0 - so that is a weighted GPA on a 4.0 scale. I don’t believe we have an exact top possible GPA as there is so much variation in what is offered, how many total classes are taken, and not all required courses are offered weighted. So I find the issue very confusing as well (and CDS is one thing but I suspect that what colleges/universities put on their website to tout the credentials of their entering classes are likely weighted GPAs).
@momofzag That was my thought process, too. I thought that the schools would be more likely to put weighted GPA on their stats. Also, I didn’t think the scale would necessarily be on a 4.0 UW scale but a 4.0 scale in general which could explain why colleges have the category of “3.75 or above” because there could be ones higher than 4.
@phoenixmomof2 Yes, I do agree that both WFU and Richmond are becoming more and more selective. I don’t want to say that they are reaches because there are obviously other factors involved in the admissions process besides purely the number. However, with that said, the improved standardized tests would definitely help my case. Sadly, if I were to categorize those schools, they would be a high match/ low reach type of school in my opinion. Also, I would like to say that I appreciate you saying those things as much as I hate to hear them, but this is the reasoning for my thread; I am trying to find more possible matches/ safeties.
OP, I was reading the data wrong on another site. The numbers I cited as 25th percentile are actually the unweighted GPA averages. Miami Ohio and Penn State actually are pretty good matches for you (not necessarily safeties though). I apologize for the mistake.
not a safety -holy Cross-great alumni network for Wall Street or corporate world.
Not sure I’d call Richmond or Wake Forest matches either. Recognize that some schools have had spikes in apps this year, and may be more difficult to get into than data that is a year or two old indicates (we found this true of Kenyon, for example).
For a safety with a good business program consider Ithaca College. It’s close enough to visit, and there is the bonus of some cross-registration opportunities at Cornell.
@CTkid47 Your stats are sort of shy of the “better” business programs, which get lots of applicants. Another strategy is to major in Economics and double in either English or Math depending on whether the Economics curriculum is quantitave or not. You will be a much more attractive candidate for a job or graduate school. One problem that companies cite with business majors is that either their math skills are poor or they can’t write a darn or both.
In your list of schools, if you go that route your chances of getting accepted rise substantially and you will graduate a much more capable person.
I’d maybe do The University of South Carolina, Wofford, Elon, and Washington college as safe schools!