<p>I am having trouble cutting my college list down because I'm worried that I'm not getting into many places, so I was wondering what is a good number I should aim for.
How much of a list should be made up of safeties, matches, and reaches?</p>
<p>And finally it would be great if I could have some suggestions about colleges that have decent undergrad business programs in my range. I would prefer either west coast or in the north east.
GPA is 3.2-ish UW
SATs CR 680 M 710 W 610
SAT II USH 730, BioM 660
Good ECs that I've been dedicated to (3-4 years)
Asian female in Cali</p>
<p>This stuff is really stressing me out, because my parents have been talking about just having me go to CC, and it isn't what I want. =(
Thanks in advance for responses.</p>
<p>Apply to 7-10 (more or less), get one/two safety, one/two/three match, then reach if you like.
Stick to UC system, its cheap and good.
2000 SAT and 3.2UW probably won't make the cut for top 20 schools.</p>
<p>You're much too talented to just settle for community college. Since you live in California, you should definitely check out all the UC schools. Just within that group, you can probably find reaches, matches, and safeties.</p>
<p>I personally applied to 6 colleges. While I have no real reach schools, I know the majority of my friends applied to like 1/2 reach schools, ~3 matches, and like 2 safeties. That seems to be the average breakdown for most of the kids I've encountered.</p>
<p>I'm planning on applying to 4 UCs, just UCLA, UCB, UCSD, and UCI.
But of course almost all of those are reach, or out of reach-ish. (as my counselor told me)
I thought about applying to some other ones, but I didn't feel that they were a good fit for me. So I'm starting to look to privates and colleges in other states.</p>
<p>It just really sucks because my GPA is so low, otherwise I would be more positive about college search. Mostly it's because of one terrible grade that I got because the teacher was (with lack of better words) terrible. </p>
<p>I have already averted my eyes from the "top schools." But I would really love to go to a school with a good undergraduate business or econ program.</p>