What are some good safety/match/reach schools for me in Northeast?

College Search & Selection
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I want to stay in the New England area, here are my stats:

GPA: 3.9 unweighted
Course rigor: All honors classes, APs senior year: AB calc, gov, spanish. Hardest level courses in everything except no BC math and no AP sciences (i know this is bad)
SAT: 2190 (710 CR, 690 M, 790 W)
Subject tests: US history (800), not sure what I’ll take next year
AP tests: APUSH: 5, AP Lang: 5
EC’s: manager for school newspaper, varsity basketball, junior leader, volunteer in a few organizations, stuff like that

Hooks: n/a
Middle class, Jewish girl with Brasilian heritage (not sure if I’ll write that I’m Latina tho)

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Big schools or little schools?

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Either one @BatesParents2019

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You have to give us more. There are hundreds of schools that we can give that are in the Northeast.

Tell us what you want with regards to the following:
Diversity
Local Area
Campus Environment
Male to Female Ratio
Merit Aid
Prestige
Cost

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Northeastern in Boston seems like a pretty solid match.

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@CaliCash Honestly I don’t really know. What are some good options in Boston? Average male to female ratio, I would like some prestige, cost, I don’t wanna be in years of debt. I don’t really care about diversity

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Boston College, Tufts, and Brandeis are all options in the Boston area. IMO all are stronger academically than Northeastern. All are pricey.

Do you have a major in mind?

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Northeastern, BU, BC are all good schools in Boston with you falling in match to low reach territory for those. M/F ratios are pretty balanced at NU, and I think BC too while BU is something like 40/60 M/F.

The schools can be pricey, but depending on your stats give good merit aid/financial aid.

Northeastern is cool if you want a school in the city but with green spaces and a real campus, you might be slightly less traditional and are interested in the co-op program; alternating between your education with 6 month periods of full time work in your field.

BU is a typical city school, with no real campus, but fits students well who want entirely urban living. Pretty big hockey school, if you like that. There are a lot of positives for BU but I can’t list a ton as I have been conditioned to hate it as a Northeastern student.

BC would be the most traditional college experience of the three- sprawling campus (relative to the others at least), football tailgating in the fall, lots of school spirit. Not super easy to get into the city from BC, so it’s not really a “city school”. Students take a few religion classes I believe.

Do you only want Boston, and how far outside the city are you willing to look?

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I’d start off by looking at some college guide books (I like Fiske, Princeton Review and there are others as well), the Supermatch on CC, and your HS Naviance system if you have it. I’d also look at some different types of schools so you get a sense of what you want in a college.

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Elite liberal arts schools in the Northeast with good financial aid for someone middle class are Haverford, Vassar, Swarthmore, Amherst, Williams to name a few.

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Tufts, Holy Cross. HC meets 100% demonstrated financial need.