<p>dartmouth is my number 1 choice and i will apply there early decision...but where are some reaches/matches/safeties for me to apply to?</p>
<p>this is 25% through junior year
gpa: 3.8
sat: 1400</p>
<p>just taking into account those numbers?</p>
<p>and my rank is 35/510</p>
<p>Looking for other medium/small northern schools? I'd say Middlebury would be more of a target for you and in some respects with a similar environment to Dartmouth's. Also Bowdoin, Bates, Colby, etc. Just look up their average SAT scores or your school's admissions history to figure out where you stand.</p>
<p>Im also applying to Dartmouth ED. You might like Lehigh, thats one of my favorite schools besides Dartmouth and they have similar sized student bodies. You might also want to take a look at Colgate, Bucknell and Wake Forest.</p>
<p>i want to apply to a top 25 school so i was actually hoping for you guys to maybe give me some more ideas for schools that match the 3.8 1400 numbers</p>
<p>The schools i gave you definitely wont be "safety" schools. They will most like be targets and depending on the rest of your stats Colgate and Wake Forest could be reaches.</p>
<p>P.S. Wake Forest is #27 in US News and Colgate is #15 for Liberal Arts Schools.</p>
<p>well that is for liberal arts schools and i am not looking in particular for a liberal arts school..and wake foreset and colgate being reaches for me with a 3.8 1400? no way</p>
<p>I have a 1530 and a 3.8 gpa and I am a minority and my college counselor put Wake Forest as a target(only because I am a minority and apparently it helps alot there) and Colgate as a reach. I wouldn't be too confident in that you would definitely get in at both of those schools. We were all told that in order to even consider a school a target or a safety (without taking into account other factors such as GPA, courseload, ECs), your SAT score must be in the top quartile of SAT scores, and the top quartile at Wake Forest is 1410 and above and at Colgate is 1430. Even at Lehigh the top quartile is 1400. Anyways, since your insisting on a Top 25 school.... you might want to look at Cornell. Like Dartmouth, it is rural, in the northeast and has a beautiful campus. But Cornell is much bigger than Dartmouth. Duke is closer in size to Dartmouth, but in the south, and much less rural.</p>
<p>If you are not looking at LACs then Wake, Duke, and Cornell are all great schools to look at but you can't get in with just a 3.8 and a 1400. There are applicants who won't get in with better scores and stats so hopefully you are an active person in your school and community as well taking hard classes because admissions at the best are tough enough with these credentials, they are nearly impossible without them.</p>
<p>I think Dartmouth will be a big reach. With your scores I would target UNC-CH which has a great college experience, Emory (a must apply for you), Middlebury, and Tufts.</p>