<p>I will be starting my senior year at a slightly above average school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I am a white female coming from an upper-middle class family. Reading these boards has put me on the verge of a breakdown and I'm starting to rethink my list of schools to apply to. Can someone here please tell me a realistic range of schools? (Safety, Match, Reach) I know it's a big favor but I feel like my knowledge of picking schools to apply to is completely off.</p>
<p>GPA (unweighted)
Freshman- 3.85
Sophomore- 4.0
Junior- 3.86</p>
<p>GPA (weighted)
Freshman- 3.95
Sophomore- 4.125
Junior- 4.315</p>
<p>SAT I- 1940
cr- 660
m- 640
w- 640
(I'm expecting my scores to go up by a reasonable amount in Oct.)</p>
<p>SAT II- Still waiting on scores for Math I, Lit., and US History</p>
<p>EC's
Fall Play
Spring Musical
Vulpes Cantantes (women's select choral ensemble)
Madrigal Singers (select mixed choir)
Ticket Sales Coordinator for Spring Musical
NHS (we meet regularly and tutor elementary students)
Active member of multicultural club
Volunteer weekly at a rehabilitation center</p>
<p>I know that I don't have a TON of ec's but play and musical both eat up 210 hours of my time, I'm hoping that shows some time of committment.</p>
<p>So if anyone could please help me come up with a realistic list of safety, match, and/or reach schools I would really appreciate it.</p>
<p>I'm sorry I forgot to mention location. I don't wish to go any further west than Indiana, any further south than Virginia, and any further north than New York. So really I'm looking at PA, NJ, NY, MD, VA, DE, IN, and WV. Thanks in advance to anyone that replies!</p>
<p>what sort of schools have you been looking at?
besides location, what are you looking for? size of school? potential major? 'feel' of campus/students (i.e. liberal, artsy, jocks, nerdy, etc etc)? any activities you want, for example it seems you are into music/theater, do you want to continue? etc.</p>
<p>Thanks so much for replying, sorry about leaving out those details. I've been looking at schools on the larger side, there's really no particular number, but I would like to go to a college significantly larger than the typical high school population (somewhere in the 13,000-30,000 undergraduate range). As far as activities go, I would definitely like to continue singing and acting in college, not necessarily as a major but an extracurricular activity. I'm not a very picky person when it comes to the kinds of people that I will associate with, I have friends and acquaintances that I get along great with on both ends of the spectrum so student attitude isn't really an issue. I'm hoping to continue on to med-school after college but I know that grad schools don't base decisions solely on your major and, in fact, like applicants to be well rounded so I was thinking of majoring in psychology, although I'm not positive. Any input that you, or anyone else, have that meets this criteria would be great, but any recommendations strictly based on my credentials would also be fine. Thanks again.</p>
<p>UVA...sounds like it fits all your criteria.</p>
<p>That was on my first list, I'm glad I wasn't completely insane for thinking it wasn't too much of a reach. Just for kicks, can anyone give me their guesses on NYU, U Michigan (Ann Arbor), University of Pittsburgh (I know I'll probably get in there, but I'm wondering about Honors College). Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.</p>