<p>try looking at these 2 sites, it may help:
[50</a> Top Colleges](<a href=“http://50topcolleges.com/]50”>http://50topcolleges.com/)
[America’s</a> 25 New Elite ‘Ivies’ - Newsweek](<a href=“http://www.newsweek.com/id/39401]America’s”>America's 25 New Elite 'Ivies')</p>
<p>Keep in mind that a college is unlikely to be a true safety school if it is in the Northeast, has a strong overall academic reputation, and is not a LAC.</p>
<p>Holy Cross, Bucknell, Colgate.</p>
<p>^ Those are not safety schools. They may be good match schools, but the OP does not want a LAC.</p>
<p>Check out Case-Western. Compared to Penn State, it has a much higher admit rate (desirable for a safety), but also much higher average SATs and a smaller Student:Faculty ratio. It has a smaller enrollment, and I think you’d find the academic atmosphere more serious. Biomedical Engineering apparently is a popular major there. stateuniversity.com rates it the #3 school in Ohio (after Oberlin and Kenyon, both LACs). </p>
<p>The combination of high admit rate (>70%), high SATs (75th % M+CR=1420), and low enrollment yield (~20%), suggest that CW attracts a “self selecting” pool of strong applicants. Many students who do choose to attend probably have been rejected by tip-top schools, or else are enticed by generous merit scholarships. CW awards merit scholarships to more than half of students who have no determined need; the average award is over $20K. These are unusually high numbers.</p>
<p>Fordham, UMCP, trinity, BU, BC - would all fall into the safety category and fit your critera</p>
<p>^ BC = Boston College? Its admit rate is a low 26%; 75%ile M+CR = 1430. Trinity = Trinity College (CT) or Trinity U (Texas)? Both are LACs (which the OP does not want). The others might be good safeties for a high-stats, full-pay applicant.</p>
<p>A match school for you would be the University of Rochester. Pitt is a good suggestion as is Case. You might consider the University of Vermont as a safety/match school. They have a good program and Burlington is a fun city, beautifully situated and Jet Blue flies there so easy to get there.</p>
<p>BC may not be a safety in this case. Try less prestigious schools. Northeastern, BU, NYU, Holy Cross, UConn, Fordham, Villanova, etc.</p>
<p>The one problem is that I am Jewish, so BC, Fordham, and Villanova would probably be out.</p>
<p>Brandeis may work for you then.</p>
<p>Maybe…this is so difficult.</p>
<p>regarding:"The one problem is that I am Jewish, so BC, Fordham, and Villanova would probably be out. "</p>
<p>Jewish students are not excluded from these Catholic schools. Aside from theology class requirements , there are no compulsory religious activities. It is up to you decide if you are comfortable in the environment.</p>
<p>regarding “I like the idea of Lehigh also but it isn’t really “urban””</p>
<p>But it is in the hood! But , seriously the OP will make need to make some compromises based on criteria cited. Northeast , urban , good athletics and school spirit , not catholic , work hard , play hard.</p>
<p>Sounds like University of Maryland.</p>
<p>With 2300 SAT, 95 UW GPA, very good EC’s including published in medical journal and independent research, along with knowing four languages and no financial need - trinity (ct), bu and bc would safeties.
Check out the Catholics like fordham and bc - I know jews that go there no problem.</p>
<p>Ok. Maybe Boston College. It really has everything I’m looking for in a school-except I’ve heard the people are snobby. But I guess I’ll apply there EA, so I (hopefully) have an acceptance under my belt by January.</p>
<p>Would I be pretty much assured admission there?</p>
<p>Does your school have naviance?</p>
<p>
You’d be likely, but not assured. If you do apply EA, but you get disappointing results, you’d still have time to apply to less selective schools.</p>
<p>Here’s a scatterplot showing about 25 application results for BC, class of 2015:
[url=<a href=“http://www.collegedata.com/cs/admissions/admissions_tracker_result.jhtml?schoolId=144&classYear=2015]Boston”>http://www.collegedata.com/cs/admissions/admissions_tracker_result.jhtml?schoolId=144&classYear=2015]Boston</a> College Admissions Results for Class of 2015<a href=“3%20students%20WL’ed%20with%20scores%20over%202200,%20including%20one%20with%20close%20to%202400%20and%204.0%20GPA”>/url</a>. Keep in mind that you have no control over the competitiveness of next year’s applicant pool.</p>
<p>That 1 applicant supposedly got into Harvard, Yale, Stanford and Princeton but didn’t get into BC.</p>
<p>^ Hmm … also WL’ed at Wellesley and JHU, and denied at Brandeis. Maybe “Tufts Syndrome” came into play. Or s/he was careless with some applications. Who knows? Results can be very fickle.</p>
<p>First of all, as soon as I saw your stats and criteria, I thought of Penn. I think that you have a very good chance of getting in ED as a legacy. </p>
<p>I would recommend GW, American, UMDCP, Pitt and BU as possible safeties that would meet most of your criteria. Good luck.</p>
<p>Thank you, hopefully. But I want to be safe and have safeties that I like just as much :).</p>