<p>Thanks for the responses – very insightful information. I know Marquette and Case are my safeties because
- my sister attends Marquette - she had MUCH lower stats than me.
- a close friend attends Case - similar stats and very similar income bracket.</p>
<p>I have been visiting colleges over the summer and have been VERY impressed with the students and facilities. I’ve only been to Northwestern, Uchicago, UIUC, Loyola Chicago, Marquette. Loyola Chicago was def the worst (just thought I’d point that out)</p>
<p>What are some other schools you guys recommend for a finance/economics/mathematics guy? I’m picky when it comes to lib arts. I love UChicago because as a undergrad I am allowed to enroll in courses with the Booth School of business or their law school. If I’m accepted (and attend) I would LOVE to take advantage of that. </p>
<p>Any similar lib arts schools? Any schools similar to Miami Ohio? I would like to attend a more prestigious university… But my stats are a little low… any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>Be aware that UChicago has a “core” curriculum, not just gen ed requirements, so that it’d be quite difficult to fulfill your core requirements, your major requirements, AND take classes at Booth (except perhaps one or two, tops).</p>
<p>For finance/economics, obvious ones would be Williams or Colgate but I don’t know whether your stats would allow you in.
Baruch (CCNY) could be a choice but handling housing, alone, in NYC, would be enough of a deterrent for me!</p>
<p>Be careful about stats: sometimes applicants have a “hook”, sometimes their essay made an admission officer go to bat for them, sometimes they indicated they’d fill a need at the school (oboe player or soccer forward). Sometimes, a school sees you as so overqualified you can’t possibly be interested except as a safety and will turn you down to protect their yield. In short, you can’t really assume much.</p>
<p>How about you look at the “free” apps on CommonApp once it’s back up, and see if some of these schools interest you?
They’re not totally free (you have to pay to send your scores, for example) but at least it’d provide you with more options to explore without depleting your funds since you’re concerned about that.</p>
<p>If harvard had a free application, or $10 application. Evrryone in the country would apply. Harvard would receive over 100,000 applicants. Application fees are a way to limit college applications to a few colleges.</p>
<p>Heres my plan at saving money. Im going to apply to cornell ED. They send the admission decision by december 15th. If i get in, i wont have to apply anywhere else. My total college applying cost would be $75. If i get rejected, i mail my other applications the very next day as deadline for most is jan 1</p>
<p>However some schools have no fee because they want to expand their pool of potential applicants, or increase their selectivity. Many of these schools are very, very good schools. :)</p>