<p>Top 5% of graduating class
IB with AP courses as well
Varsity Captain of Diving
Varsity Pole Vaulting
Founder of Charity
Subject tests:
Bio E-720
US Hist-690
Lit-670</p>
<p>Anyone know of some good match schools? </p>
<p>I feel that my scores put me a little below the range of the top schools and above the range of the medium schools. any suggestions?</p>
<p>That still leaves a lot of schools for you. Do you have an interest in a specific major? Is money going to be an issue? Do you have a geographic preference? If you just want a general list to start with, just enter your test scores at some of the college search sites and see what comes up.</p>
<p>I’m in the same exact boat! I’m applying to Macalester, St. Olaf, George Washington, NYU, American, Georgetown, Depaul, WashU, and Brown. Some of those are obviously higher reaches than others. But we should be good at St. Olaf, GW, NYU, American, and maybe Macal.</p>
<p>Holy Cross, Bucknell.</p>
<p>Take a look at following & see if you fit admissions requirements & possibly the school interests you: </p>
<p>Connecticut College (CT)
Wheaton College (MA)
Hobart & William Smith (NY)
Union College (NY)
Syracuse University (NY)
Skidmore College (NY)
St. Lawrence University (NY)
Colgate University (NY)
Hamilton College (NY) </p>
<p>Best of luck in your college search!</p>
<p>BC, Fordham, Loyola Maryland, Villanova, Providence College, BU, Richmond, Wake Forest, Furman, Elon…</p>
<p>many excellent schools out there.</p>
<p>You obviously have in your mind what a top school is and what a medium school is…I suspect that you have based that on US News rankings.</p>
<p>Go to the US News national University and national LAC rankings…find where you think ‘top’ schools end (those that are a reach for you)…let’s say it ends at 23 and then your next rating section starts at 25…Wake Forest. Continue on until you reach the ‘medium’ schools; however you define it. …let’s say you go down to 75…Tulsa. There is your list.</p>
<p>Do the same for national LACs. I would also suggest that you go to the Regional University rankings and pull the top 10 or so from the regions that interest you.</p>
<p>Take your list and do the research. Grab a Fiske guide and read it over coffee at Barnes and Noble.</p>
<p>The odds of someone suggesting a school not on your list if you use the methodology from above is slim.</p>
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<p>Your class rank and strength of curriculum are stellar, and your ACT score is quite strong; a 31 on the ACT translates to roughly a 2100 on the SAT, which probably won’t get you into the most selective schools, but it will get you far. (Just send your ACT score, not your SAT, though some schools might want to see your SAT Subject Test scores which are very respectable). Those stats would make you competitive at schools like Michigan, Boston College, Brandeis, or U Rochester–all very good schools. On the LAC side, I’d say you’re competitive at schools like Grinnell, Bates, Colby, Colgate, Oberlin, Macalester–all terrific schools. </p>
<p>I say “competitive”; based on low admit rates, I’d say most or all of those schools are slightly reachy. I wouldn’t be surprised if you were admitted to any or all of them, but you need some slightly less selective schools where your ACT score puts you clearly in the top quartile and the acceptance rate is at least 40-50% or higher. In that category I’d place schools like BU, Fordham, American, Occidental, Lafayette, Union, Franklin & Marshall, Whitman, Dickinson, Denison, Skidmore, St. Olaf, Beloit, Lawrence U. Those are your matches. For safeties I’d look at schools like Earlham, Knox, Kalamazoo College, and Lewis and Clark, which have admit rates up around 70-75% and where you’re clearly in the top quartile. </p>
<p>Then, of course, there’s the concept of a “financial safety”–a school you are virtually certain to get into and know you can afford to attend. Hard to know what that is without knowing your EFC. No school is a true “safety” unless you’re sure financial constraints won’t keep you from attending.</p>
<p>Thank you all so much for your time and input. I’m considering pumping out a fair amount of applications now and leaving it up to chance. I intend to study business btw.</p>
<p>OP, if you’re considering on spending your college years in California, you may get admitted to Berkeley and UCLA even with that SATs/ACT, if your GPA is something like 3.85 (unweighted.)</p>