PLEASE HELP ME WITH MATCH/SAFETy SCHOOLS waaa

College Search & Selection
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<p>Hey, first of all thank you for you time =).</p>

<p>Could someone please help me with finding suitable match and safety schools?
I'm looking for schools that offer good computer science and business management/administration programs</p>

<p>Here's my "profile":</p>

<p>Canadian, applying from Asia</p>

<p>SAT scores: CR 750, M 780, W 760</p>

<p>High school GPA: 4.0 unweighted on 4.0 scale</p>

<p>Class rank: 1 of 24</p>

<p>Course selection: International Baccalaureate, out of 6 main courses 4 are Higher Level (about AP/honors level?) including Higher Level English, Chinese, Mathematics and Business/Management</p>

<p>Extracurriculars and Awards (there aren't many, so I'll put them together T_T)
student council president of external affairs, varsity captain, 2 years work experience for an IT firm, 2nd place award winner of the Stanford EPGY English/Writing Competition in China, Piano studied 10 years and level 7 US examination passed, former flute soloist studied 4 years, underwent part of a fairly renowned professional computer programming training program</p>

<p>Please name some match/safety schools for me. With admissions criteria crazy as they are now, I no longer have a good clue of what my match and safety schools are. I have a decent clue of what my reach schools are, and am now afraid to end up applying only to reach schools that I perceive as match and end up with no acceptance letters.</p>

<p>Any help is greatly appreciated, and thank you again for your time. =)</p>

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<p>What schools have you chosen as reaches? What specific criteria do you prefer--large/small, uni/LAC, intense/laid-back, etc.?</p>

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<p>I'm not quite sure which are reaches and etc, but here are the schools I'm interested in:
Carnegie-Mellon
UC Berkeley and LA
USC
U Michigan
U Wisconsin - Madison</p>

<p>and of course the Ivies..</p>

<p>My safeties are Penn state and Purdue</p>

<p>I prefer small (at least smaller class size), uni, and not too intense.</p>

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<p>Oh, and I am waiting for the results of my Math Ii and Physics subject tests.</p>

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<p>Indiana U., Fordham, Boston University, Villanova, Santa Clara.</p>

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<p>Thank you~
Is Indiana U. the Bloomington one? And is Boston U. good for both computer science and business management/administration?</p>

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<p>MIT, CMU & Michigan are match schools for you.</p>

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<p>Yes, the Indiana in Bloomington. It also has a large and wonderful music school if you want to continue some of that.</p>

<p>The OP requested schools that are "not too intense." that would seem to exclude MIT and prob Carnegie Mellon and perhaps Michigan.</p>

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<p>yeah..i've heard from current MIT and CMU students and alumni that the social life is almost nonexistent there. i'm also willing to shoulder the boredom for the sake of a better career future. haha, i'd do a 900 with joy if MIT accepted me. it'd be like winning the lottery jackpot</p>