<p>Hi All!
I am a junior in high school and have been seriously thinking of schools.
Here are my stats:
GPA- 3.3/3.4
Freshman year- 2.9
Sophomore year- 3.1
Junior year- I currently have a 3.6 and am hoping to bring it up to a 3.7 or 3.8</p>
<p>ECs:
Varsity swimming (5 years)
SADD Club
School Newspaper</p>
<p>Volunteer work:
Volunteer swim coach
Church work
Going on a service trip to New Orleans in the beginning of the summer</p>
<p>Other:
I went on a trip to DC with my school and am going on a trip to Europe with my school in the spring. I am opting to do work for the trip in order to receive credit for it.</p>
<p>My SATS are hopefully going to be an 1870</p>
<p>I come from an extremely competitive, private, catholic high school in NY. </p>
<p>I am planning on applying to TCU, University of South Carolina- Columbia, Elon, High Point, Miami University-Ohio, University of Dayton and James Madison University. </p>
<p>I have a good list complied of reaches and targets, however, I was wondering if anyone knew of any good safety schools for someone with my credentials.</p>
<p>They always say no cost constraints, until they see the bill. The schools you listed will cost around $180,000 for 4 years. Might want to run that number by your parents to see if there really are no cost constraints.</p>
<p>That said, what do you intend to study? You go to a Catholic HS. Do you want a Catholic college?</p>
<p>Your stats are a tad low for your dream school, which only selects 41% of applicants anyway… You might want to apply to Stony Brook and/pr SUNY Bing as backups. You might not want to consider them, but some of the schools you are looking at would not consider you.</p>
<p>Chardo- yes no cost constraints. We have a ton of money saved up and they said it would no be an issue. We ran the numbers and it works out- I am very lucky. I intend to study nutrition, and do not necessarily want to go a catholic school such as Providence or Fairfield because they do not have any of my intended majors. </p>
<p>KKmama- I have spoken to my guidance counselor and she said that TCU is a target as well as the other schools on my target list; SUNY Bing has gotten extremely hard to get into and would ultimately be a reach. I also know many people who have attended Stony Brook and they did not like it especially because it tends to be a big commuters school. I want to go to college to get away from New York so SUNY’s honestly are not an option. Thank you though!</p>
<p>Note that TCU is a religion affiliated school (not Catholic); if having a matching religious affiliation is important to you, be sure to consider that.</p>
<p>I think you should aim higher for your SATs. They really do determine a lot! I’m also a junior and I understand your stress though your extracurricular a are impressive though so work on your grades. Bon chances mon ami :)</p>
<p>If you have no cost constraints, and are full pay without applying for aid, you may be more of a safety than you think at some better schools, especially if you apply early decision.</p>
<p>Lei6741- My ultimate goal for the SATs would be like a 2000 which I have received on a practice test before it’s just that my math scores are so low!! I may try the ACT. Good luck to you too and try not to stress as much!! </p>
<p>Chardo- Elon has an exercise science program which covers some of the classes that would be required in a nutrition major! Elon isn’t one of my top choices; however, my parents like the idea of it because we have family friends who live in the area! </p>
<p>MYOS1634- You wouldn’t consider high point? Also, I have considered Drexel as a safety; however, people do not recommend it (or Temple) because of the area it is in. Apparently, downtown Philadelphia is not very safe!!</p>
<p>Not many adults on this forum would recommend High Point. You can look into it through the “search” function.</p>
<p>Temple and Drexel are not remotely in the same area of Philadelphia. Temple is indeed in a sketchy area but Drexel is near University City, a really cool student neighborhood, and right accross the historical city.
(Since you’re from NY: it’s like confusing Morningside Heights with East 111th…)</p>
<p>Drexel and Penn are right next to each other in a very safe area. Penn has a campus, while Drexel doesn’t really have one. They are also both better schools than Temple.</p>
<p>well, let another philadelphian in here. Temple is in North Philly. If you’ve not been raised in a city, the neighborhood Temple is in might put you off. Having said that, my mother-in-law graduated from Temple at 70 years of age. Took her 6 years, but she never had any problems. So you either know how to move thru a city and its rougher neighborhoods or you don’t. If you walk outside Temple’s campus by yourself, with your head down, reading your latest texts, your buds in, you’ll get in trouble sooner rather than later.</p>
<p>Penn and Drexel are close to each other. I would not call neighborhoods on all sides of both campuses “very safe.” Some of the Penn dorms have been the targets of off-campus rapists in the past. Personally, I love the area. I wrote a dissertation at Penn. I don’t think they’re any more dangerous than most areas of large cities. Again, you have to be sober, aware of your surroundings, and moving in groups outside of either campus.</p>
<p>Here’s a map of West Philly, where Penn and Drexel adjoin, and of incarcerations per thousand. Penn and Drexel are in zip code 19104. You can see that the zip code the schools are in is less safe than downtown (the gray areas to the right of 19104) and the zip codes on all sides of 19104 are less safe than 19104, as suggested by the number of incarcerations per thousand. I hope this helps. Temple is in 19122.</p>
<p>I would say that in North Philly you have to be on alert constantly otherwise something happens. In University City, you can be relaxed and nothing happens.</p>
<p>Thank you MYOS1634, jkeil911, and SurvivorFan! I am sorry I was obviously mislead. I would prefer to not be in an urban setting ya know? I want to feel like I have a campus! But that is certainly nice to know about Drexel. Even though it is an urban setting, I will look into it!</p>
your extracurricular a are impressive though so work on your grades. Bon chances mon ami :)</p>