Hi,
I’m a junior entering my senior year and I’ve gotten by college list essentially finished and right now Boston College is my number one school. It checks all the boxes for me in academics, sports, student life, and the fact that it’s near a city but has its own campus. I really love the school and I think its within my range. I just want to know if there are any similar institutions with a little more prestige that I should have on my radar so that I can have a true reach school. I majors I’m most interested in are political science and finance.
Here are my stats:
GPA (unweighted): 3.8
SAT: 1500
Notre Dame, Georgetown, and maybe Villanova for Catholic schools. Northwestern in Chicago. UVA or Michigan for overall student life.
Notre Dame, Northwestern, Duke & Vandy are D1 reaches for everyone…
(how important is the Jesuit influence?)
The Jesuit influence isn’t that important to me but the access to a city one of my favorite qualities from BC.
Your SAT score is above the 25%-75% for BCs enrolled class last year.
If you follow the link below to BC Factbook, on page 36 has BCs most common cross applicant (applied to both schools; admitted to BC) and cross-admit list (got into both schools and is choosing between BC and that other school). That list might be helpful.
https://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/publications/factbook/pdf/18-19_factbook.pdf
Finding reach schools is very easy. Just google any college rankings list and you’ll get them. Then just pick the ones in cities, ranked higher or near BC. Simple. For east coast, we are talking Harvard, MIT, Brown, Columbia, Penn, Johns Hopkins , Georgetown, Emory, Vanderbilt, WashUSL, CMU, , Northwestern, UChicago, Rice, Stanford, USC, UCLA, UVA, UCBerkeley. i May have missed a few big city, enclosed campus schools in this list.
Also make sure you have st least an affordable safety. Fun to cherry pick like this. The pickin’s are easy. The hard part is finding s school that you’ll like that is sure to take you and affordable
Holy Cross.