<p>I am applying to 8 schools for business management.</p>
<p>I have found 4 reach schools and 4 safety schools, but no match schools that interest me. I was planning on applying to Carnegie Mellon, which would have been a match school, but after visiting it I decided I did not like it. I don’t want to only be left with safety schools if I don’t get accepted to any of my reach schools.</p>
<p>I was thinking that if I applied to the honors programs for all of my safety schools then that would make them slightly better options. What are your thoughts on this?</p>
<p>Right now my reach schools are University of Pennsylvania, MIT, Georgetown, and Cornell, and my safeties are George Washington, Babson, Boston University, and Marquette University.</p>
<p>There is a significant gap between these groups of schools. Let me know if you have any suggestions. I am mainly looking at schools in the Northeastern US.</p>
<p>Safety schools with good honors programs and good B-schools can be fine choices.</p>
<p>What are your stats? </p>
<p>my safeties are George Washington, Babson, Boston University, and Marquette University.</p>
<p>These are fine schools. Are you certain that they’re affordable? If so, then fine. If you’re not certain that you have all costs covered, then they aren’t safeties.</p>
<p>They will probably be affordable, but we aren’t 100% sure.</p>
<p>Here are my stats:</p>
<p>GPA: 3.75 UW
SAT: 1940
ACT: 30</p>
<p>GPA has improved each year.</p>
<p>Many honors classes, one AP, full time pseo senior year(attending college for high school credit)</p>
<p>130 hours community service
International Science and Technology Fair Finalist
Authored a non-fiction book
Have published and managed a print science and technology magazine for 6 years.
Photographer for my church</p>
<p>Work:
Researched and designed maps for Medtronic Foundation, illustrating
the impact of contaminated runoff water in relationship to the BP oil spill</p>
<p>Interpreted and analyzed limnology data for the Institute of Environmental Assessment</p>
<p>Designed and built website for the Environmental Resource Council</p>
<p>They will probably be affordable, but we aren’t 100% sure.</p>
<p>???</p>
<p>What does that mean? Those schools don’t meet need.</p>
<p>Will your parents pay the $45k-55k to attend those safety schools? </p>
<p>Ask your parents how much they’ll pay. </p>
<p>A school is not a safety unless you know FOR SURE that you have ALL costs covered thru ASSURED grants, ASSURED scholarships, small federal student loans and family funds.</p>
<p>What schools that would be considered match schools for me do meet need? The average aid for GWU is $23,000.</p>
<p>*The average aid for GWU is $23,000. *</p>
<p>That means nothing. It doesn’t have anything to do with any ONE student. Averages don’t tell you what YOU can expect.</p>
<p>And, that is the avg aid for students who accepted their FA offer and are attending. Many may have gotten offered less and didn’t attend. </p>
<p>*What schools that would be considered match schools for me do meet need? *</p>
<p>That’s hard to say since many match schools don’t meet need. </p>
<p>Besides, you need to first determine what your EFC is…and how much your family will pay.</p>
<p>I’m not very familiar with Marquette or Babson, but I think that Boston and George Washington would both be considered more as matches than safeties. The average SAT score at BU is ~1990, and the middle 50% at George Washington is 1900-2090/28-31.</p>
<p>Gizmo- what state do you live in? Perhaps your in-state public university has an honors program you could qualify for?</p>
<p>As to your list- I agree with the above that GW and BU are more match and not safety for your stats. I personally would like to see you find more match schools and less reaches. If you find 3-4 match schools that you really like, you should have good choices after your decisions come in.</p>