<p>I'm from Virginia and I'm looking for nearby safety schools with average stats. Any suggestions would be really great. Thank you. (:</p>
<p>No one can suggest what schools may be your safeties if you do not specify your cost constraints and your basic academic stats (unweighted GPA, SAT and/or ACT score).</p>
<p>I didn’t want this to come off as another chance thread, but that is a good point. 3.5 UW gpa, 2200 SAT, 750 Math II and decent extra curriculars.</p>
<p>*Got a C+ in geometry honors and a C in precalc honors. This probably will lower my chances of getting into a good school. </p>
<p>These are the schools I am considering:
Washington and Lee
UVA
University of Richmond
Smith
JMU
GWU</p>
<p>Cost constraints?</p>
<p>If you do not have much to spend, you may want to check the schools listed here:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1348012-automatic-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships-19.html#post16145676[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1348012-automatic-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships-19.html#post16145676</a> (for safeties)
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1461983-competitive-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships-4.html#post16224918[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1461983-competitive-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships-4.html#post16224918</a> (for non-safeties)</p>
<p>Have you run the net price calculators on the schools you are considering?</p>
<p>I would need financial aid, but I’m able ro afford the colleges I’ve listed. I would like to put a “good” school for a safety so I can trasfer to a better university if I end up there. I’m not sure if JMU or Virginia Tech would be safeties or not.</p>
<p>I would need financial aid, but I’m able ro afford the colleges I’ve listed. I</p>
<p>Can you clarify? Are you saying that you need FA to afford the colleges listed or are you saying that your family will pay all costs of the ones listed?</p>
<p>If you need FA for those schools, then you can’t be sure you’d get enough money from any of those school, right? </p>
<p>How much will your family pay towards college each year? That is important info.</p>
<p>You’re right, I can’t be positive how much financial aid these colleges would give me yet, but I think they would give me enough for me to be able to attend according to the net price calculator. I can pay around 20k a year without causing any hardships to my family.</p>
<p>Anyone else?</p>
<p>A safety meets these criteria:</p>
<p>1) You are flat-out guaranteed admission because of your grades and exam scores. You know that you meet that standard because the place is either open admission, or because the grades and exam scores that guarantee admission are posted right on the website.</p>
<p>2) You know for dead certain that you can afford it with no aid other than federally determined (FAFSA) aid and/or guaranteed state aid and/or guaranteed merit-based aid for your grades and exam scores that comes from the college/university itself.</p>
<p>3) Your major is offered.</p>
<p>4) You will be happy to attend if you don’t get in anywhere else that is affordable.</p>
<p>Your grades and stats qualify you for guaranteed admission and merit aid at some of the institutions in the threads listed in the posts above. Look through those threads. Maybe you will find something that you like. You also are certainly guaranteed admission at one or more of the community colleges in VA. Check out the ones that have formal transfer agreements with UVA and the other VA state universities.</p>
<p>To the best of my knowledge, none of the public universities in VA post the grades and scores that will guarantee admission, so while one or more of them may be reasonably safe, you can’t count on any of them as being truly safe. Line up at least one true safety so that you know you can go to college somewhere next fall, or think about your Plan B if you don’t get in anywhere that you like that you can afford.</p>