Help- I'm not sure how to pick match schools!

rainbowrose
Wed, 17 Aug 2011 23:01:34 +0000

Well one good match/safety for you if you like Columbia so much is NYU. They’re both in NYC, which I’m assuming is one of the reasons you love Columbia because it really is only that and its core curriculum that make Columbia drastically different from all other Ivies/top schools.

For a notch down from Columbia… common schools are Duke, Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins, WashU in St. Louis, Northwestern and Tufts. Also maybe consider some slightly less selective LACs (Middlebury, Wesleyan)?

We need to know your stats though to give you really good matches. Also, what is it that you love so much about Columbia?

Also, once you get that acceptance letter from another school (if you don’t get into Columbia ED), you really do learn to love your other schools. Yes, I’m still a bit bitter about getting deferred and then rejected from Brown, but I love WashU and it has everything I was looking for in a school.