Suggest some match and safety schools?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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ACT: 35 C
35 E/35 M/35 R/36 S
SAT Subject Tests:
800 Math 2
800 USH
740 Bio
GPA: 96 UW
Top 10% (we rank by decile)

Courseload:
9th-
Global History H
English H
Geometry H
Bio H
French II
Some art classes

10th
Global History H
Chemistry H
Algebra 2/Trig H
English H
French III
Latin II

11th
General Physics I and II (SUNY Albany)
APUSH
English H
Precalculus H
French IV
Business Law

12th
AP Calc BC
AP Stats
AP English Lit
AP Government
AP French
AP Biology

ECs:
Competitive figure skating-I spend the majority of my time on this. I’m pretty serious about it, and plan on skating collegiate. I’ve passed most of my tests and I have medals from large club comps and stuff.

I have some other stuff too, like volunteering, I teach learn to skate, a few clubs, and other really minor stuff. Nothing really special, the same kind of stuff everyone has.

Minor Awards:
National Merit Semfinalist
School Book Award
National French Contest (National and Regional Medalist)
National Latin Exam Gold
Skating stuff

I have REALLY weak ECs and no major awards. Please suggest some match and safeties for me!

High reach:
UPenn
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
WUSTL
Vanderbilt

Reach:
UCB
UCLA
NYU
Michigan
USC

Low Reach:
BU

Match:
Fordham
Binghamton

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Oops. I forgot…

Reach:
UVA

Low Reach:
Northeastern

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I would say BU is a match, not a reach.

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Are you a full Pay? And what is your home state?

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@ClarinetDad16 Yes and I live in NY

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By the way, I’m Asian and female

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Bump

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For people to suggest schools, please list possible majors / areas of interest and preferred size / locations. I’m not seeing a lot of pattern to your list other than “top brand name schools” that are hard for everyone to get in…

Also, your class rigor didn’t really kick in until senior year… how are you doing in those classes? (I ask because it might affect how your app is viewed.)

I think essays, telling your story (presumably figure skating) is going to be critical. And also having essays that make a compelling case for “why this school” (hard to do with such a long list … 12 high/low reaches)

That said, your scores are fabulous! Congrats to that.

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@MidwestMomTo2 Pretty much the same, actually. 95.571 GPA first quarter, and my overall GPA is a 96 rounded up. I have no idea what my un rounded overall GPA is.

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@MidwestMomTo2 I prefer colleges near urban areas, but I’m not opposed to colleges in more rural areas. As of now, I will probably major in economics.

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Might look at Holy Cross-not far from Boston. Holy Cross offers merit scholarships for students interested in Classics/Latin. HC website is informative.

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Bump

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These colleges, beyond those already on your list, are a sampling of those with active intercollegiate skating clubs:

School, Number of Participants

MIT: 31-40
Hamilton: 18-24
Colgate: 13-17
Boston College: 9-12
Duke: 9-12

Information from iceskatingresources.org.

For economics, these schools have particularly strong departments, when measured by faculty scholarship:

LACs

Williams
Wellesley
Middlebury
Wesleyan
Hamilton
Claremont McKenna
Colgate
Richmond
Vassar
Holy Cross

Universities

Harvard
MIT
Princeton
UCB
Chicago
Stanford
NYU
Columbia
Yale
Brown

Information from IDEAS (“Economics Departments at Liberal Arts Colleges”; “US Economics Departments”).

Duke, Northwestern, Cornell and Brandeis also have notably strong economics departments.

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@merc81 I’m looking for matches and safeties though

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Schools such as Colgate, Boston College and Brandeis are matches for you. With respect to the other schools, you can screen them according to your criteria, or pursue the sources cited for further schools to consider.

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Several of the school’s listed above would be matches or safeties… and it was nice of @merc81 to do the research for you: Holy Cross, Hamilton, Colgate, Wellesley, Richmond.

Or you could apply to a couple where your stats would get you free tuition (Temple) or some larger state schools that auto admit with significant merit for your scores/GPA. But they’re only safeties if you’re willing to go there …