Trying to figure out good safeties and matches

<p>I am a white male attending a small competitive public school on Long Island. I plan to Major in History or International Relations, and would perfer to remain on the East Coast.</p>

<p>SAT: 1970 (680 V, 650 M, 640 W) Oct. Retake
SATII: Bio 640, Math IC 660, United States History 780
ACT: 30 (Oct. Retake)
AP's: English Comp (4), European Hist (4), United States History (5).
Sr Year Courseload: AP United States Gov't, AP Biology, AP Calc AB, Latin 5, Accelerated Humanities Course, Economics.
Unweighted GPA: 3.83
Weighted GPA: 4.0
Rank: 20/200</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Football (1 yr JV, 3 yrs Varsity, Sr Captain)
Baseball (2 yrs JV)
Track (1 yr JV, 1 yr V)
National Honor Society
Latin Club
Community Service (250 hrs various)</p>

<p>Awards:
All-Conference Football (Could play College Football at DII, or DIII)
National Merit Commended Student (At least, possible finalist)
AP Scholar
Scholar Athlete Team (Football 3 yrs, Track 2 yrs)</p>

<p>I was just wondering what you guys thought some good safety schools would be for me, thanks in advance for your oppinions.</p>

<p>state schools. maryland college park, north carolina chappell hill, UVA</p>

<p>lehigh and lafyette (after retakes)
american university
univ of delaware
towson university
syracuse university
uconn</p>

<p>I have to disagree with abemartin. It is very difficult to get in to either UVa or UNC-CH from out of state. I do not think the OP should regard them as safeties or even matches. </p>

<p>UMCP seems like a match and would probably be a comfortable environment since most of the out of staters are from NY or NJ, but it is Div I. If the OP wants to play varsity football, he will need to go elsewhere.</p>

<p>SUNY Geneseo, Union, Trinity, Connecticut College all should at least be in a comfortable match, probable category for you.</p>

<p>Since you're on LI you should visit Kings Point. Spending a year at sea, you will learn a lot about international realtions. S is at KP and loves history and IR but figured he'd do his humanities work in grad school.</p>

<p>American University, University of Delaware, Fordham University, Syracuse University, UCONN- all good schools and would qualify as safeties.</p>

<p>Thanks for all of your oppinions, I was already looking into Syracuce, Fordham, and American, and UMCP, but I think that I'm also going to look at U Delaware and Lafyette. Thanks a lot for your two cents.</p>