In answer to this question, GPA is 3.71 UW/ 3.93 W and SAT is 1320; (she’s planning to retake it in August, as she didn’t prep much for the first one, but it could still stay around that zone, I would think). Intended major has changed maybe 4 different times throughout this past school year. She will definitely want to double major or/and have flexibility for switching majors. She is thinking Business, but she is interested in traveling abroad and other cultures, and is fairly creative & artsy, so she’s thinking Marketing & International Business, or Marketing & Political Science. She has liked large to mid-sized campuses or smaller ones if urban or urban adjacent.
She likes campuses with some green space and somewhat classic gothic collegiate architecture.
Current prospective TE list includes:
-Duquesne, Pitt (super long shot for TE, but we are in-state, so might work anyway if no TE, not sure about “wasting a space” due to how competitive, though), St. Joe’s (have heard similarly about St. Joe’s being super competitive for TE), maybe Ursinus, then Dickinson, Gettysburg, Syracuse, John Carroll, Baldwin Wallace, Wooster.
Dickinson and Syracuse are ED no EA, so - not sure how TE is handled with this added dimension; might need to scrap one or both of these from the list…
Others on my longer list (my daughter’s draft list consists of those already listed above), include Xavier U. (Cincinnati), Dayton, U. of Scranton, Loyola Maryland, Susquehanna, Elizabethtown, Lafayette, Shenandoah, St. John Fisher, maybe Franklin & Marshall or Bucknell.
Yes, there is a wide mix here; (hopefully, someone will say ‘yes, more safeties are needed,’ or ‘yes, sometimes adding a couple more selective schools works best,’ and input about either can help direct us to refine the list a bit. Yes, driving distance from W. PA is strongly preferred.
I’m thinking 10 on the TE list duplicating about 3-4 from the TE list for the CIC list, then adding maybe 3-4 more.