safeties?

Applying to College
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<p>anyways i have realized that i have like no safeties at all so i was wondering if anyone had any suggestions.....</p>

<p>GPA- unweighted like 3.9 prob(every semester i have gotten 4 A's and 1 A-)
weighted it like 4.6 or something
hardest scheduel @ my scool</p>

<p>Standardize Testing-</p>

<p>SAT 1- 760 CR, 800 M, 800 W (2360)
SAT 2- 780 US Hist, 780 Math 2C, 760 Chem</p>

<p>AP Tests- US History: 5 Chem: 5</p>

<p>Awards & ect-</p>

<p>Cum Laude, Caltech Book Award, AIME qualifier, Hopefully National Merit Scholar (221 on PSAT), Hopefully AP Scholar of some sort after I get my other test results, Right now i am 2nd in my class of about 100 but hopefully I will be fist by the end of senior year</p>

<p>Extra Curriculars-</p>

<p>Varsity Track (9,10,11,12)- Captain (Lots of Awards like Most Dedicated & Coaches Award) Team won League & CIF this year</p>

<p>Varsity X-Country (9,10,11,12)- Captain (Same for Cross country) Team went to the state championships this year</p>

<p>MUN- (9,10,11,12)</p>

<p>Junior Advisor (11)</p>

<p>Other-</p>

<p>Location: CA
Ethnicity: Black
Gender: Female
School: Super Competitive Private School
Dad went to Harvard, Mom didnt go to college</p>

<p>thanks!</p>

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<p>Rice and Northwestern? are good safeties for you</p>

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<p>For people to answer your question, you need to also say what you want out of your college experience: location, academic environment, etc.</p>

<p>The key to selecting safeties is making sure that you not only will get accepted, but also that you can afford andwould happily attend if you have to. There are thousands of colleges that would be glad to admit you, but unless you have few preferences, most of those colleges are not places where you'd be happy.</p>

<p>One last thing: When applying to safeties, make sure that you put time and effort into your applications. Many students have been rejected by safeties because the students didn't show interest or put much effort into their applications.</p>

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<p>That is one nice-looking application right there.....</p>

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<p>i prob want like a medium to large size school
location doesnt matter to much just as long as it is not suuuper rural and isolated
not supper conservative or super preppy
prob will major in like something sciency/mathy or ecomonics or something like that</p>

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<p>That's way too vague. Unless you're really unusual, I truly doubt that your preferences are that broad. Have you visited any colleges?
With your stats, as long as you do careful applications, you could probably use as safeties any LAC or national colleges on the US News list that are ranked below #25 in the tier one for national universities or LACs.</p>

<p>But would you really be equally as happy at Catholic U, University of Alabama, Michigan State, University of Pittsburgh, State University of New York at Binghamton, Fordham or Southern U? All of these meet your criteria.</p>

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<p>i know its vague.... but i am the kind of person who will really be happy most everywhere i am really not that picky</p>

<p>i have visitied lots of colleges (harvard, yale, princeton, bryn mar, columbia, nyu, boston college, penn, tufts, vilanova, conneticut college, brown, stanford, ucla, uc berkley, usc, georgetown, george washington, uva, and lots of others i cant even rember... i went on a college tour w/ my school) and i pretty much liked them all loved a few and disliked even fewer</p>

<p>the only college that i truely disliked was bryn mar because it was all girls and i allready go to an all girls school and being there made me feel like dying</p>

<p>oh yea i also didnt like vilanova b/c it was like supper white</p>

<p>diversity= good</p>