<p>Bumping this thread, to see if there are any more suggestions of schools we may have overlooked. We’re thinking about trying to visit a few more schools in August, and we’re trying to pick which ones.</p>
<p>Also, D took the ACT and did better on it than on the SAT, with a 29 composite. (The ACT score is more inline with what I would have expected, and the SAT scores were lower than expected.) She also got 4’s on the 2 AP exams she took this year.</p>
<p>With the ACT score, Rutgers moves into safety range, according to our Naviance. I’m reluctant to seriously consider schools that are clearly below Rutgers academically. </p>
<p>GPA remains at 3.4UW, 3.9W. Don’t have new rank, but expect to stay at about top 15%. </p>
<p>Prefers mid-size schools, not too far from NJ, not much colder than NJ, with an equestrian team, not religiously affiliated. Parental preference for high 4-yr graduation rate.</p>
<p>Still think Elon is a match, especially with those stats. D’14 has quite a number of friends at Elon from NJ, it’s about a 9 - 10 hour drive (depending where you are in NJ). Raleigh-Durham has a lot of flights, and Greensboro airport is not far either.</p>
<p>D definitely plans to apply to Elon. It was one of her favorite schools from our spring break visits, but the distance worries her a bit. Just looking for a few more schools, to widen the list.</p>
<p>Sacchi- you said earlier you liked Richmond. Furman in SC is a similar type school. My daughter had those two schools as her first and second choice. Furman is a little less sports centric. They do have a strong Psych dept.</p>
<p>Both Goucher and Washington College are less than 1500 students, and I know that will seem too small for D, since she thought the 2000 student schools were too small. </p>
<p>Furman looks interesting, although SC is even further away from NJ than NC is. Does Furman feel “Southern”? D doesn’t want a school for “feel Southern”. Elon, for example, didn’t really feel Southern, since so many students were from out-of-state, especially from the northeast.</p>
<p>My D would say Furman feels southern in that everyone is open, kind, friendly, but not in culture. Furman is less “southern” feeling than Richmond in her opinion. Many, many students from outside the south. (As we are, from the west coast, many of her friends are from the NE) Elon and Furman have similarities. D applied there as well. Furman felt more acedemic to her than Elon. I will say we all thought the food offerings at Elon were better. :)</p>
<p>Funny to see my old thread resurrected. As Lafalum notes, my daughter selected Dickinson to attend. But that decision was only made one week ago, and it was really a tough one for her to make. </p>
<p>She did better in admissions than I would have guessed when I started this thread. In hindsight, she applied to more schools than she needed to. I was overly pessimistic about the negative impact of being in an overly represented demographic, but really wanted her to have several choices available if admissions decisions had gone poorly for her. As some had suggested earlier in the thread, being full-pay may have been a factor at the need-aware schools. And she ended up with an ACT score that was better than the SAT score I had posted at the beginning of the thread. (She only sent the ACT in her applications, except to Elon which superscores across the SAT and ACT.) She added two more applications after being deferred from her ED school. </p>
<p>She was accepted to all of the following: Rutgers, Ramapo, TCNJ, Delaware, Susquehanna, Allegheny, Dickinson, Elon, Marist, Trinity. Deferred ED at Bucknell and then denied. Waitlisted at Richmond and Lafayette, and didn’t go on either waitlist.</p>
<p>Saachi - thanks for posting your D’s results. I pretty sure my son’s stats will be similar to your D’s, so it was nice to see all of her options. Congratulations to your D on all of her wonderful options! I hope she loves Dickinson!</p>