<p>Majors: Psychology and Business
Hope to pay: 20k or less
Stats: Hispanic female, top 3%, sat 2020 (hope to raise to 2100+), sat IIs: 800 spanish, 730 ush, yet to take math IIC, IB, hardest courseload</p>
<p>Reach:
UPenn
UChicago</p>
<p>Match:
Carnegie Mellon
University of Michigan
U of Washington St. Louis
USC
Notre Dame</p>
<p>Safety:
UT Dallas (financial safety)
Indiana University (financial safety, hopefully)
Miami University in Oxford, OH (financial safety)
Brigham Young University (OH)
UT Austin (favorite safety, will go there if no other school offers me 20k or less)</p>
<p>obviously... too many schools. which ones do you think i should eliminate? anything else i could add would help too</p>
<p>I say keep all of them. Unless you really can't pay to apply, maybe Indiana and UT Dallas.</p>
<p>I would eliminate BYU (unless you are mormon, or ultra conservative), UT-Dallas (unless you really want to stay that close to home) and then eliminate one or two of your matches--- based on the size of school you want</p>
<p>if her major is business she'd want to keep indiana on her list.</p>
<p>Chicago is an awesome university with the best Econ department in the World...but it does not have an undergraduate Business program. So if you really want to major in Business, drop Chicago. As a reach, I would probably add Cornell. </p>
<p>I would also drop Dallas and BYU.</p>
<p>Indiana is a great safety for you...and you should get a pretty good scholarship there.</p>
<p>^^ I would love to major in economics if it is at Chicago.
Wow, I totally overlooked about the 98% mormon thing at BYU.. I am really not conservative so I am dropping that.
The thing about UTD is everybody from IB in my schools seems to get a full ride + 50k (over 4 years) of "book money"... it seems to me as a really good financial safety.
I may be looking into adding Cornell.</p>
<p>which match do you think I should eliminate? I am thinking UMich because I am pretty sure they won't give me a lot of $$... am I wrong? Maybe USC? As much as I like the idea of getting money, it really seems to me that I won't fit into the school.</p>
<p>A female URM with excellent class rank, grades and a good SAT score? I'd say you have a good shot at a scholarship at Michigan. You should seek out momofthree. I believe her daughter is very similar to you and she got a nice scholarship from Michigan.</p>
<p>u hav good stats but ur hispanic, so spanish should come easy for u...</p>
<p>More reaches, less safeties. </p>
<p>If you live in Texas, you are guaranteed admission to UT-Austin since you are in the top 10% so you dont need any other safeties.</p>
<p>I would also suggest Princeton, Rochester, Case Western and a few others that are generous with aid.</p>
<p>Princeton? They prbly don't want me nowhere close to them lol!
laxgirl07, you are right - spanish comes easy to me because it is my native language!! easier than english, anyways. i just took the easy way out of sat IIs... maybe i will also take french in november next year, since that is what i am studying in hs.
def. looking into rochester & case western</p>
<p>Why does it say (OH) next to Brigham Young is that an sp and supposed to be UT</p>
<p>I disagree about narrowing the safeties and only leaving UT because she automically gets in... When I applied to schools I had 3 safeties and 1 reach- I just happened to like all my safeties. The #1 priority in choosing a college is not always to find the highest rated or toughest school, it's to find a place you like, where you can succeed and also boost your future (sometimes academic prestige helps)</p>
<p>^^^ Also, I really need financial safeties. I took out UTD and Brigham Young. I am def. applying to Miami University and Indiana, thoguh. + I am leaning more towards those schools than some of my matches!!</p>
<p>I really think I am going to leave my matches be only Michigan, Carnegie, and Notre Dame... and then just add tons of Reaches since my goal is a university better than UT for the same price!!</p>