<p>GPA: (Upward trend 2.8 last year 3.2 this year) 3.0 ( will be about 3.2 at least at end of my junior year.)
SATs: will be about 2050 (PSAT Score was 210)
Rigor: Mostly CP classes, Honors American Lit this year, Honors Management, Honors Modern fiction, Honors US History II and AP gov next year, and probobly a whole array of AP classes my senior year.</p>
<p>im from NJ
top 10 public HS</p>
<p>ECs:
will be doing big brother program next year
DECA member
rec basketball for 4 years
summer camp counselor for 3 years (247 hours per summer)
job as assistant at local real estate agency</p>
<p>intrested in major of: business, communications, sports management or film/television depending on school.</p>
<p>*= favorite schools, likely EA applications.
Is my current list good? if not rearrange/ give me suggestions:</p>
<p>Safetys:
Rutgers NB
Temple
Tampa
ASU
Arizona</p>
<p>Matches:
Miami *
Tulane*
UMD: CP
GWU
Syracuse*
Boston University</p>
<p>Reaches:
Michigan
USC*
NYU*
Vanderbilt
Villanova
Any of the UC’s???</p>
<p>I suggest your prepare to work hard your junior year and narrow down your list a bit as time goes on. Ideally, you’ll want to cut 2-3 of those safety schools. There’s no point in applying to that many unless financial aid is a big factor. Pick your favorite 2 and that should be that - you are basically ‘guaranteed’ in getting into them if they are really safeties so you should ideally only need 2. </p>
<p>Other than that, I suggest you narrow down your list geographically (so that its more feasible to visit some of the schools) and to take a look at each of the forums for these schools. You’re really all over the place (geographically) and that can be a good or bad thing. Make a list of what you want in a college and proceed to cross some of your choices out.</p>
<p>You need more time to find out your interests. Right now, it’s impossible to narrow down schools or even pick schools that may fit you because you have majors that will likely be in 3 different colleges within the same school. For example, communication is usually in College of Arts and Science or School of Communication, business is in School of Business, Film/Television is in School of Fine Arts. Requirement for those different school can be very different. If you go for film you may need to submit portfolio or have an audition. It’s hard to chance someone not knowing where they’re going to. Maybe your work experience would be useful for going to School of Business, but it’d be pretty useless if you’re going into the Fine Arts.
Also, NYU, USC and Syracuse doesn’t have EA. USC doesn’t even have ED. In terms of geography, atmosphere, size, specialties and culture, your list of school is all over the place. At this point it’s really too early to make any suggestion or plans. Everything is very presumed- presumed cumulative GPA, presumed SAT score, no SAT II, presumed course load for senior year. Take some time, research more about the school, dabble into each field that you’re interested in, travel, talk to former students of the school, talk to your parents about finances, take SAT/SAT II/ACT, learn more about yourself (as cliche as it sounds). Know what you do and don’t prefer, what helps you flourish, what you’re trying to achieve. Then come back and adjust the list. </p>
<p>However, I’ll give you something to keep in mind when you become a rising senior and start to consolidate your list. Have 2 safeties (and make sure that you have not just an academic safety, but a financial safety as well), 4-5 matches, and 3-4 reaches. Overall, try to keep it around 10. Some supplements can be quite time consuming. Additionally, trying to keep up on all the deadlines, materials that you have and have not sent (and sometimes things get lost in the mail or the university loses stuff), all the different forms that your counselor/teachers have to fill out (if not all your universities are common app) can be very stressful. It’s fun to have 20 universities when you’re making a list, but not so fun when you actually have to do all the work and follow up.</p>