Help me find match schools?

WhoopDiDo
Wed, 31 Jul 2013 19:45:49 +0000

Hi! I’m a rising senior and I’m having trouble identifying which schools will be matches for me. If anyone could offer some suggestions that would be lovely :)

Stats:
-White girl from Ohio, nice public school
-35 ACT, 4.2 gpa W, 213 PSAT (maybe NMSF)
-AP classes: lang(5), calc ab(3), chem(4), enviro(5), apush(4).

ECs are good but fairly typical, nothing extraodinary. Student council (with some smaller leadership things like committee chairs, etc), NHS, Envirothon team member (team has done well), 6th grade camp counselor, environmental club, competitive horseback riding, and decent amount of volunteering through student council and nhs at elementary schools, retirement home, etc.

As for what I’m looking for in a school, I don’t want tiny or massive. Strong academics. School spirit (not necessarily great athletics, just like general pride/happiness) would be nice. I’m tentatively thinking premed so a good science program is important. Not super urban campus but not middle of nowhere. I would like to stay east of the Mississippi, and probably not too far up into New England, as I think I want to be no more than 10ish hours from home. Money wise, my parents are comfortable financially so in this initial search we aren’t limiting based on cost. My safeties are definitely affordable.

The current, rather small, list looks like this:
Vanderbilt (reach)
UVA (reach)
OSU (safety/match)
Miami of Ohio (safety, will give merit money)

and maybe WUSTL, which would also be a reach.

So please, please help me pick some matches? I would really sincerely appreciate it haha, I’m getting a little overwhelmed by this whole process! And let me know if I left out any info!