<p>Macalester is a match for someone with your stats, but Haverford is getting into those colleges that could be considered reaches for most applicants, especially in a competitive year. My S was accepted at Mac but wait-listed at Haverford. If you like Haverford, you just might like Mac even better.</p>
<p>Michigan is certainly not a “safety” for any OOS student these days. I’d have to honestly say if you don’t have a 3.8 unweighed gpa or better, it might not even be a match for you. Your high SAT scores will definitely help, but Michigan puts more emphasis on gpa scores.</p>
<p>rjkofnovi, my school doesn’t calculate GPA, so they’re out of luck.</p>
<p>tk, Haverford has a fencing team and I’m going to try to get recruited. 
edit to mention, my school has a good admissions relationship with them. These are all reasons for my listing it as a match and not a reach – though I recognize it is very selective right now.</p>
<p>Haverford is a low reach, as is Tufts. Macalester would be a low match. Michigan COULD be a safety if you apply early, since an acceptance is obviously safe. A GPA estimate would help–~3.5 is decent but suboptimal; even if the Bs are all in math/science courses, you are competing against humanities kids who excelled all-around. Getting it up to a 3.7 would be good. You may already be there; I have no idea. There should be UW GPA calculators on the Internet. Note that the fact that your SCHOOL doesn’t calculate GPA should not preclude you or your schools from doing so internally. Many schools will, especially publics like Michigan.</p>
<p>With high stats, the best Canadian schools (McGill/Queens/UT) should be low matches–I’ve seen some treat them as safeties with no repercussions, since demonstrated interest is an American thing.</p>
<p>Have you considered Oberlin? They have club fencing. You may want to start another thread looking for easier-admissions liberal colleges with varsity fencing.</p>
<p>Talked to my college counselor today including y’alls influence. We’re going with:</p>
<p>1) Michigan rolling admissions
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- pick two of Macalester, Pitzer, Grinnell</p>
<p>I’m totally happy with this as I’d be thrilled to go to any of those schools. Thanks all.</p>