<p>Courses: lots of Honors classes. taking 3 APs my senior year. Fairly rigorous. I also chose to take Calculus over AP Stat this year (although it's not AP Calc).</p>
<p>Grades: Huge upward trend. Think I have a 4.0 this year, and overall its 3.7 or 3.8
SAT: 2000, might get a 2100+ because I retook it.</p>
<p>SAT out of 1600: 1380. Will probably rise to 1450 when I get my improved scores back.</p>
<p>ECs: Nothing spectacular, but I started a club and play an instrument.</p>
<p>You need to post more criterion. How much can you/your parents pay? Any particular area of the country? Urban, rural, suburban? Large/medium/small?</p>
<p>Preference is a smaller mid sized university. Anything less than 10000. Most likely I can pay full freight although merit aid is always good.</p>
<p>I’m willing to use Early Decision to bolster my chances if it means anything.</p>
<p>and I like Suburban/Rural over urbans. Though I can settle for an urban.</p>
<p>I’m looking at east coast primarily. I can go south if needed, I just don’t want to go too far out west.</p>
<p>Some ideas for mid-sized universities: Bucknell, Lehigh, Johns Hopkins, Villlanova, Holy Crossand further south URichmond, Tulane, Vanderubilt</p>
<p>What major or general field of study?</p>
<p>U Rochester is possible - even though it’s in Rochester, it’s not quite the same as other “city” schools we’ve visited. </p>
<p>There are several options in PA, but are you looking for research Universities or larger LAC? What’s your home state?</p>
<p>muhleneberg in allentown,pa
happy students, great academic rep.
great student retention rate , close to airport and hospital (two things many people do not normally think about in advance) hopefully you never need the 2ND one .
most students live on campus, community is worth a lot! very nice campus and on and on!</p>
<p>Holy Cross, Richmond.</p>
<p>par72 I think richmond is super heavy into greek stuff, depends if op likes being a follower or is a free thinker!</p>
<p>If you are interested in music, take a look at Oberlin as a reach/match. The music conservatory means there are musical performances every night of the year. Around 2,400 students so one of the larger LACs. Located in a small college town about 45 minutes from Cleveland. And take a look at St. Mary’s College of Md (a public LAC on the Chesapeake. </p>
<p>Happy1, a lot of your suggestions are urban, which OP said he/she didn’t want.</p>
<p>Home state is in tri-state area. I’m not exactly that interested in music. Its just another extracurricular to me. </p>
<p>Potential fields: business or Engineering (I’m pretty good at math).</p>
<p>Use the [ABET</a> -](<a href=“http://www.abet.org%5DABET”>http://www.abet.org) accreditation search to check which schools have which engineering majors.</p>
<p>For business, there is a list of schools here: <a href=“https://www.aacsb.net/eweb/DynamicPage.aspx?Site=AACSB&WebKey=ED088FF2-979E-48C6-B104-33768F1DE01D[/url]”>https://www.aacsb.net/eweb/DynamicPage.aspx?Site=AACSB&WebKey=ED088FF2-979E-48C6-B104-33768F1DE01D</a> (however, some of the listed schools are only at the MBA level, not at the undergraduate level). But note that is easier to go from engineering undergraduate to MBA later than business undergraduate to engineering later.</p>
<p>Rutgers
UMass
Villanova
Lehigh
BU</p>
<p>If you can manage a 50-100 point boost on your SAT, consider:
Boston College
Emory
Georgia Tech
CMU</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon U in Pittsburgh, PA! I had same stats as you and got in for architecture… I think you’d get in for business! :)</p>
<p>Also second U of Rochester… that school’s amazing!!</p>
<p>Did you have any special hooks (like URM)?</p>
<p>I was able to bump up my score to 2150. Does that change my list?</p>