<p>I really need to get some safety schools that I actually would want to go to
I want a school in an urban area and major in communications</p>
<p>my spec's:
- white from long island..err
- top 20 public schools in US: no class rank
- 3.6 UW gpa
- amazing teacher recs
- great essays
- 6 APs by graduation
- 1970 SAT (670V/650M/650W) retaking in octoober
Sat II's: US 740, Math IC 560 (taking math IIC in november)
- EC's:
Field hockey: spirit award, captain for 2 years (since freshman year)
lacrosse: varsity since freshman
winter track: varsity since sophmore
School play (senior year)
Vintage (school magazine): editor
INtercultural unity club: committee head for 3 years
Community action committee: treasurer, secretary
Political action committee: secretary
National honor society
Music honor society
viola 8 years
horseback riding 5 years</p>
<p>awards:
field hockey spirit award
numerous horseback riding awards
latin honor society
spanish honor society
Gold in National latin exam</p>
<p>College list:
NYU- early decision
Tufts- ED II
Syracuse
Vanderbilt
Boston College
Boston University</p>
<p>The only safeties I have are Tulane and GWU and I don't know if tthey are even a safety for me...</p>
<p>How about Miami University in Ohio? That's my safety, and it's actually scary how similar our lists and stats are. :) Some others to consider might be American, Rhodes, Villanova.</p>
<p>pepgirly, you are wise to be looking for safeties and there are many good schools that offer communications majors and for whom your stats would match. Your SAT falls into the mid range of most of the schools on your list, so by all means apply. Your GPA is low for many of them however, and at Tufts, Vanderbilt, and BC, over 70% of the freshmen come from the top 10% of their high school classes. Syracuse is probably a match/safety for you. GW may be a match. Check out PR website counselomatic and match your desired major, GPA, scores, desired geography etc and see what you come up with. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. Good luck!</p>
<p>I'd say Tulane is a match an George Washingon it a match/safety, we need some clear cut options, try:</p>
<p>American University (Washington D.C.)
Goucher College (Baltimore)
University of New Haven
University of San Francisco
SUNY-Buffalo
College of New Rochelle (Weschester - NY)</p>
<p>Miami of Ohio is not in an urban area. Philly schools are a possibility with a good communications department at Villanova and your stats would probably make it a match/safety for you. If you are thinking the Maxwell school at Syracuse you have to apply specifically to the school and it is competitive so figure a match/reach.</p>
<p>Check out Emerson College in Boston. The entire school is devoted to communications. It's not even a liberal arts college. Very urban campus. The main dorm is on the corner of Boylston and Tremont across the street from the T stop.</p>
<p>fyi - re Syracuse - if you are considering the Newhouse School within Syracuse (ie for communications), it is harder to get into than Syracuse in general. you may also want to look into the possibility of applying to their arts and sciences and transferring later - i think you may be able to list more than one school on the application - ie, apply to alternates within Syracuse, but I am not sure. i think people asked about ease of transferring among schools at the info session, but i am not sure of all the details re the answers they got.</p>
<p>Tulane and GWU are NOT safeties for someone with a 3.6 GPA and SATs in the 1900s. I wouldn't call Tulane a match either. It's a reach.</p>
<p>Possible safety/matches for communications with those stats: American, Elon, Ithaca, Susquehanna, Quinnipiac, Fordham, Fairfield, and possibly Wheaton (Mass).Note: Even some of those are more matches than safeties. Emerson is a terrific suggestion but probably a match, not a safety.</p>
<p>you may also want to look into the possibility of applying to their arts and sciences and transferring later >></p>
<p>Just a comment on this: it is very difficult to transfer into Newhouse from another school in Syracuse. It is actually easier to transfer in from outside of Syracuse. As unbelievin has noted, Newhouse is also significantly more difficult to get into than the overall Syracuse U stats would suggest. One key is to show lots of dedication to communication related EC's (i.e., editor of a monthly school paper, write for local paper, etc.) Therefore, your editorship of the school magazine, assuming it is published more than annually, should be top of the list of your EC's when you apply to Syracuse (and other communications/journalism schools for that matter). Any writing you have done for other EC's should also be stressed.</p>
<p>Why would you want to apply to Tulane. If you havent noticed, there was a little hurricane that just struck New Orleans.....and the city isnt in great shape as of now....But, to each his own i guess.</p>
<p>I'm applying to Tulane, just for the heck of it...it's a good school, and I'd like to hope that in a year it will be semi-clean from all the damage....</p>