My top choice is Notre Dame, but I’m concerned I won’t get in so I’m looking for some good backup plans.
Desired qualities:
-near big city
-in the Midwest
-strong polisci or economics program, pre law program
-division 1 football or basketball
-marching band
-Catholic (though it’s not a dealbreaker if it’s not)
-suburban campus
Any suggestions?
I’d nix the Catholic requirement which will make it easier to find safeties. Maybe look into some big 10 schools? Also Ohio State has a pretty great poli sci program/ urban setting. IU-Bloomington… Not exactly near a big city but it is a great college town. If you like the Catholic idea, maybe Loyola in Chicago- pretty underrated. Look at other Chicago schools too. Maybe DePaul. These are just the ones that came up off the top of my head. Good luck and make sure your safeties are somewhere you would be happy!
What can you afford?
Money is not a factor.
Don’t worry about a prelaw program. You can study anything and go into law. High grades, LSAT in top 20% and some sort of interest area, anything from nursing to engineering to finance and advocacy for a social cause: gender issues, environment, prisoner issues, immigration, anything you can imagine.
Try Lake Forest. Solid school. Suburban Chicago. Don’t know about sports.
I’d try the flagships of Minnesota and Wisconsin. Both great schools and you need high stats, but maybe not as high as Notre Dame. Twin Cities have a 6Mil population. Madison is much smaller and more suburban feel.
Northwestern the stats would be too high for a safety.
Michigan State (U Mich would not be a safety because stats are higher) but the Lansing area is very small city.
Have you thought about Ohio schools?
Iowa?
Nebraska?
Academics: GPA: 4.34 weighted (mostly As and A+s, 5 A-s/B+s) ACT: 32 composite, 32 superscore APUSH: 4 AP LANG: 4 AP BIO: 3 <<<
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Prefer Catholic schools…
Fordham will likely be a safety for you. Santa Clara may also be.
Gonzaga, St. Louis Univ, Marquette, Villanova, UDayton, Loyola Chicago, Loyola Maryland, USan Francisco
U Dayton. You’d get some merit aid and no price change for your 4 years. Pre-law is not a program.
The Twin Cities’ population is 600,000, not 6 million. That was probably a typo.