<p>I am looking for what safety schools I can fall in love with. I want to be in a city at a school that has Division 1 sports. The states I am looking in are, MA, CT, VT, NH, DE, MD, VA, WDC, NC, SC, GA. I like medium to large sized schools. I am interested in University of Maryland - College Park, Georgetown (a reach), George Washington, Boston College, and BU.
I am currently a Junior, I go to a rigorous high school. I have a 3.8 on a 4.0 scale (unweighted). I have mostly A's and a few B's. I have a 1940 on the SATs currently.
My current courses are:
AP Biology
Honors Pre-calculus
French 4
Latin 2
Economics
English
I run cross country, Varsity Track and Field, and Varsity Indoor Track and Field. I spent a semester abroad in Australia.</p>
<p>Syracuse
Pitt
Temple
Rutgers</p>
<p>(not it your listed states, but real close!)</p>
<p>Why not apply to schools like Wake Forest, Clemson, Georgia Tech, UGA, NC State, Univ. of South Carolina, Virginia Tech, UDelaware(D I-AA), and UConn?</p>
<p>What state are you in?</p>
<p>Is money an issue? OOS tuition is usually an issue for students with parents who don’t want to pay 30K or more per year out of pocket.</p>
<p>Holy Cross-DIV1 sports with nice campus-1 hour from Boston. Also Wake Forest.</p>
<p>I am in RI right now. I want to be at least an hour away from home. Which eliminates any schools in RI. Money is not problem for me.</p>
<p>WAKE FOREST. Maybe High Point U? Idk.</p>
<p>I would also look in NY and PA.</p>
<p>Holy Cross sounds like a great match.</p>
<p>Pitt - Safety/Match
Villanova - Match
BU is probably a safety
American University (DC) - safety/match</p>
<p>Your GPA is strong enough for all your schools; bumping your SATs another 100 points would make things a lot more likely at places like BC, Holy Cross and Villanova.</p>
<p>For good students from middle class families, typically your safety would be an in state public school.</p>
<p>*I am currently a Junior, I go to a rigorous high school. I have a 3.8 on a 4.0 scale (unweighted). I have mostly A’s and a few B’s. I have a 1940 on the SATs currently. *</p>
<p>Since money is no object, you only have to consider who will accept you. That gives you all kinds of options. </p>
<p>Are you limiting yourself to the NE?</p>
<p>What Div I sports to you like to watch? Football? Basketball? ??? That will make a difference for schools to suggest.</p>
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<p>I missed that part. In that case, one strategy is to apply to extra “match” schools to improve chances of acceptance to at least one. Another is to use early action, if available at any schools you really like. Delay applications to less selective (or less preferred) schools with deadlines after the EA notification dates. Then reassess the list as early notifications come in. I believe Georgetown and BC both have non-binding Early Action. If either accepts you early, then potentially you’re done, no need for safeties.</p>
<p>University Of Pittsburgh sounds like the perfect school for you. It’s in a great city (Pittsburgh is getting a lot better), has Division 1 sports (great basketball program, football is starting to be more competitive), and only has 16,000 students.</p>
<p>If you don’t mind not being in a city, I go to Clemson and we only have 14,000 undergraduates and our reputation is increasing, we have a great sports program (especially football, we went to the ACC championship game last year), and we’re only 2 hours away from Atlanta and Charlotte. Let me know if you have any questions about Clemson! (or Pittsburgh since I went for a visit)</p>
<p>Siena College</p>
<p>Temple sounds like a good choice, and we’re getting to be very popular with Rhode Islanders.</p>
<p>I am not limited to NE. But I want to stay on the east coast, I plan on applying early action to Maryland, Georgetown and BC. Hopefully I can be done after, but I need to be thinking about safety schools if I do not get into any of those three. I am looking for a Division 1 school not to play sports, I am not very good, but to watch. I love basketball, and I also like football. Good teams and school spirit are important to me.</p>
<p>Ok…so you want to go to a school with a good basketball team. That’s what I wanted to know. I knew you weren’t interested in playing, but I wanted to know which Div I sport you were wanting to watch and cheer for.</p>
<p>Well, it looks like UMaryland would be the best safety for you. Georgetown will be a reach and BC will be a bit of a reach, too. However, if you test again and get higher scores, then you could have other options, too. Will you take both the ACT and SAT again?</p>
<p>It may be easier for people to give you a greater idea of a ‘safety’ if you give a breakdown of your SAT CR/M/CW. This can make a difference. Someone had mentioned VA Tech. It’s a wonderful school, but know going it that it’s not a safety school for most students, even instate… 5 years ago maybe, but things have changed. The instate/OOS ratio is 70%/30% making OOS admissions more competitive. Last years freshman class had a gpa of 3.95. For the school of engineering the cut off for consideration is a 600 in math, however you need a 700+ to be truly competitive. Your CR should be over 600, competitive is closer to 700. Do students get accepted with lower stats, absolutely! Is it a university worth considering, again, absolutely! I would hesitate, even as an instate applicant to consider it a safety.
I would offer the same regarding GATech. I do not know the ratio of IS/OOS off hand, however I believe their scores are even more competitive that VT’s. Awesome school, however you are asking about a safety school, right?
List the breakdown of your test scores. It might assist people in giving you really accurate matches as a ‘safety’.</p>
<p>True…a breakdown of SAT would help.</p>