suggest some matches/reaches?

College Search & Selection
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<p>Wanting to major probably engineering or something in the medical field. So a school that has a variety of different majors.</p>

<p>I am o.k. with anywhere in the US (Preferably East coast)</p>

<p>African American Male
GPA: 3.42
Living in Atlanta,GA
ACT: 29</p>

<p>Senior Classes:
AP world
AP Govt
AP econ
AP calculus
H. World lit</p>

<p>UCLA Transcript:
Biological Threats To Society: B
Sociology: B</p>

<p>A part-time job since Freshman year
President of FBLA
Vice-President/Founder of Psych. Book Club
Chess Club
French Club</p>

<p>Great Rec's</p>

<p>Colleges (Maybe?)
NYU
BU
Emory
Georgetown (Cousin is a professor there?)
Cornell (Very high reach, but who knows?)</p>

<p>I know my GPA is a little low, Sophomore year killed me! But Junior year, I almost got a 4.0 both semesters.
Hopefully I will be getting All A's this semester. NOT APPLYING EARLY</p>

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<p>NO one? (10 char)</p>

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<p>Tufts (reach), Johns Hopkins (reach), University of Rochester (high match), Carnegie Mellon (high match), Lehigh (match-- v. strong engineering program)</p>

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<p>Why don’t you want to apply early? It could probably help, esp. if you’re applying to hard to get into schools.</p>

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<p>Well I wanted my first semester grades to show.</p>

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<p>GA Tech for engineering, since it’s free (Hope Scholarship); if you want to do med instead, go for Emory (or UGA, where the honors program is excellent and also free).</p>

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<p>I’d actually add another safety…</p>

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<p>Know any other safety? =P</p>

<p>I want to add 1 more safety, than I found the all of the colleges I want to apply to.</p>

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<p>If you have a 3.4 GPA and 29 ACT you need to add a bunch more true matches and safeties. Right now you are applying to mostly reach and high match schools.</p>

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<p>I don’t know any! :frowning: haha. If someone is able to help me on that, it will be greatly appreciated.</p>

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<p>Syracuse is good for pre-med. It would be a match, probably. </p>

<p>And for a safety, well…why not Georgia Tech? It’s as good as any other safety out there, but at a great discount…</p>

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<p>Yea, I have GA Tech as one of my safeties.</p>

<p>I will look into Syracuse, Thanks alot!</p>

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<p>Would NYU be a reach for me? even though I am just below average for the GPA, and right on par with the ACT?</p>

<p>I was thinking a high match, or possibly a match?</p>

<p>Also low % of African Americans</p>

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<p>RIT and Syracuse</p>

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<p>I would add Tufts and JHU as reaches, as suggested above. And Carnegie Mellon as a low reach/high match. Good luck!</p>

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<p>If you are looking for a school with a variety of options/different majors, you might want to consider something like Vanderbilt. Its engineering school includes a biomechanical engineering (BME) major that attracts a fair number of premed students. It won’t hurt that you are African American.</p>

<p>They are need-blind, 100% of determined need, if that is a concern.</p>

<p>Of course, it isn’t east coast.</p>

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<p>Oh wow, Thanks alot guys! =D I’m getting happy with all of these suggestions.</p>

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<p>Match:
NYU
Georgia Tech
Oxford College of Emory
Syracuse
Boston University
UGA*</p>

<p>High Match:
University of Rochester
Carnegie Mellon
Lehigh</p>

<p>Reach:
John-Hopkins
Georgetown
Dartmouth
Tufts</p>

<p>Very High Reach:
Cornell
University of Chicago
Northwestern University</p>

<p>Working on Editing this just a little bit.</p>

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<p>16 is a bit excessive. I’d try to narrow it down a bit more…maybe to 12.</p>

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<p>If you’re willing to handle that app-load, go for it. If not, narrow it down.</p>