I am trying to find schools similar to UVA, UNC, Georgetown, Northwestern etc. I probably can’t get into those schools so I need a safety. I like the size (big but not Mich / UT / Wisco big) and they have a good reputation. I also don’t want a massive party school / huge greek life but I don’t mind if it’s there. Basically looking for good schools that aren’t impossible to get into. Was thinking WashU, Emory etc.
BTW … SAT score is 1470 (is this good?), grades are mostly A-/B+ (at a good private school)
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U Miami has a higher admit rate (35%) than either UNC (14%) or Georgetown (14.5%), and it’d be a match (middle 50% SAT range is 1220-1370, average unweighted GPA is 3.7).
Boston College would be a match. The admit rate was 27% this year, and the mean SAT of admitted students was 1448.
If you can’t get into UVA, or UNC it is a very high chance you won’t get into Emory or WashU, leave them on your list but they are both Low reach/reach for you.
Be careful evaluating common data set information on public schools—if you are an out of state applicant, you will likely need to be far above the average in-state applicant, and unfortunately many schools do not post those number broken into in-state and out-of-state. Some do, however, so make sure and look.
The acceptance rate for OOS students at UNC-CH for the first-year class that just matriculated was 13%; and UNC-CH has rules that it is to have no more than 18% of an incoming first-year class as OOS students. It’s a hard row to hoe for OOS applicants; definitely NOT a safety school.
Have you looked at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio?
Check out the Common Data Sets for the schools you’re interested in to see if your 1470 SAT is “good.” It sounds a little low for Georgetown and Wash U but might be in the realm for others. At our HS which is OOS for UNC, UNC almost never accepts our students with SAT/ACT in the 99th percentile unless they have some other hook. You can ask your guidance counselor about that within your own HS.
Matches might be: Lehigh, Syracuse, Tulane, Villanova (if not applying to business school), Indiana.
@abcsenior WashU and Emory shouldn’t be considered safeties on any list, especially with what sounds like a 3.5 or 3.6 and 1470 (with no indication of an early decision application).