Recommend Safety / Target Schools

College Search & Selection
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<p>I'm an American-born Chinese from SoCal</p>

<p>To give a sense of where I'm at, this is my current college list:</p>

<p>1) Northwestern
2) Emory
3) Johns Hopkins
4) Tufts University
5) Vanderbilt
6) Carnegie Mellon
7) NYU
8) UC System
-UC Berkeley
-UCLA
-UCSD
-UCD/UCSB
9) USC
10) Boston University</p>

<p>My college counselor said I had a 1 in 2 chance of getting into Northwestern. (He's very "well-ranked" amongst college guidance counselors.)</p>

<p>I'm thinking of dropping Boston University as my safety and applying for some other school instead. I have no preferences except that it be a relatively "smart" university/college and that it have more than 5-10% Asians.</p>

<p>I'm applying undecided.</p>

<p>What safeties/targets would you recommend for me?</p>

<p>Thanks!!!</p>

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<p>oh man, we’re right in the same pool. Your school list almost matches mine. I really want to get into Northwestern. What im concerned about is SAT subject test scores for there. Not only will i not have the recommended 3 tests, but my math is probably below 700 and could be anywhere in the 600s. My US history is much higher though. What about you?</p>

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<p>Might look at Holy Cross(don’t have to be religious)very good school but easier to get into vs Tufts. HC has nice campus-1 hour from Boston and the school has great alumni network.</p>

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<p>If your grades and scores are high, don’t you already have a couple safties in the UC system?</p>

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<p>Vanderbilt has fewer than 10% Asian students. I think it is around 7%, if that is something that is a concern in your college choice.</p>

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<p>Par72, do you work for Holy Cross or something? Every ****ing post I see from you suggests them.</p>

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<p>^^^ bahahaha. classic. holy cross looks shi-t house as well</p>

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<p>Rather than Holy Cross or Boston University, I would use Boston College as a safety. You are probably going to get into a few of your target schools. I don’t think you need to apply as low as BU or HC.</p>

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<p>I don’t think people can use BC as a “safety”. It’s got very competitive admissions.</p>

<p>Will your parents pay full price for wherever you go to school? If not, that will impact your choice of safety schools since most don’t give much aid.</p>

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<p>Syracuse University (NY)</p>

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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/search.php?searchid=25322388[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/search.php?searchid=25322388&lt;/a&gt; - Par72’s posts</p>

<p>Every post mentions Holy Cross. LMAO. </p>

<p>As for the post, I like the 2nd tier UC’s as safeties for you.</p>

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If you are used to San Diego or Los Angeles, you may feel Nashville is too small and not diverse.</p>