what would be a good safety school?

College Search & Selection
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<p>am a senior.i have 3.5 weighted GPA. and 3.4 unweighted. but my school works on the Weighted gpa. class rank is around 30%. 83 out of 284. SAT. 1450 and 22 on the ACT(25 MATH, 18 ENG, 25 WRITING,18 SCI). wonder why the low SAT. i only came to U.S 3 years ago and even that i have A's in my english classes SAT english is too hard for me. i want to double major computer science and computer engineering (doesn't matter if school offers CE and EE as one major). what would be a good safety school. must be in the northeast. not a public,liberal-arts school. so far this is my list</p>

<p>Boston U
Syracuse U
Northeastern U
Drexel U
Clarkson U
Carnegie Mellon U
MIT( hopefully my application reader is drunk)</p>

<p>non of these are probably schools that i have great chances of getting into (well Drexel and Clarkson may be around 60% chance of getting in) but the rest is fairly low. what would be a good school that offers both my majors. must offer dorms for freshmen. and offer both my majors. allow double major and at my criteria. and it would be better if the male/female ratio is no less than 60/40.</p>

<p>i also have these subject test scores ( could have done better but i marked different answers for different questions lol)
Biology M
560
Chemistry
550
Mathematics Level 2
530</p>

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<p>Many of the schools in this thread which you qualify for automatic admission (if your high school record includes the specified course work) have your desired majors:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1562918-updated-list-schools-auto-admit-guaranteed-admission-criteria.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1562918-updated-list-schools-auto-admit-guaranteed-admission-criteria.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>However, you may have to relax your location preference. You also need to consider your cost constraints.</p>

<p>Starting at community college is another potential safety; you can transfer to a four year school as a junior to complete your bachelor’s degree after taking the frosh/soph level courses at the community college.</p>

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<p>I know this is not answering your question, but… Why in the world are you applying to MIT and CMU Comp Sci? I know that you’re allowed to dream, but unfortunately, with those stats your application will get thrown out after the first glance… It just seems like a waste of money to me.</p>

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<p>If you are a senior and have not yet applied, I encourage you to save the money and apply somewhere else besides MIT, CMU, Boston U, and Northeastern. I am not sure about the other schools, but from the CDS of these four universities your chances are quite grim (unless you have a hook that you are hiding). </p>

<p>“not a public,liberal-arts school.”
By this do you mean that the school should not be both, or that a school should not be either?</p>

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<p>i probably won’t get accepted. hey. but there is a small chance. i know a few people with lower criteria than mine who got accepted to MIT. anyways. i don’t want to go to a school that someone with 2.0 gpa and has done nothing in school can gets into.</p>

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<p>[MIT</a> Office of the Provost, Institutional Research](<a href=“MIT Institutional Research”>MIT Institutional Research)</p>

<p>ACT composite (18-23): 0% of entering class.
Percent in top quarter of high school graduating class 100</p>

<p>Not trying to burst your bubble, but let’s be realistic here…</p>

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<p>yeah. i meant neither public or liberal-arts.</p>

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<p>What is wrong with public schools?</p>

<p>Given your academic credentials, it is unwise to apply a highly restrictive set of criteria on your college selection, particularly if you cannot afford list price at a private school. Better to build your list from the baseline screens of affordability and academic programs and majors you are interested in, then trim the list with your other criteria (or drop your other criteria if they eliminate all possible safeties).</p>

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<p>try wagner college in staten island!!</p>

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<p>You don’t want to go to a school that someone with a 2.0 GPA gets into? Forgive me, but for someone with your stats, what do you expect a safety to look like? It would only be considered safe for you if it’s the kind of school that also admits 2.0 students.</p>

<p>Some possible safeties include NYIT and Hartford. More in the match/slight reach category are Wentworth, Union, and RIT. Keep in mind that these tech schools will probably not meet your male/female requirement. With all your stats and criteria, you really should add publics to your list. Opens up many more possibilities, both large and small.</p>

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<p>Someone who has done nothing in high school, and doesn’t turn it around in college, won’t be able to survive the rigors of CE/EE, or even college for that matter. If you look outside of the Northeast, you will have many more options. Also what’s with the dismissal of publics? For the record, Georgia Tech, UCLA, UC Berkeley, University of Texas - Austin, and other outstanding schools are public. Of course, you won’t be able to get into them, but the fact is, they’re still state supported.</p>

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<p>Anyways, you might want to look at Suffolk, Hofstra, and York College of PA.</p>

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<p>West Virginia?</p>

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I find that very hard to believe.</p>

<p>How much can your family afford for college? In order for a school to be a safety it must also be affordable.</p>