Match me ~20-40% acceptance rate schools [NJ resident, 3.98 GPA, 35 ACT, math and classics, unknown parent contribution, divorced parents]

My PSAT was like 1500 or 1510 I think but I wasn’t a finalist for the national merit scholarship.

What do you think of the schools mentioned earlier. Lots of suggestions made.

I will look at it sometime this weekend. I was just super super exhausted this week and was working on my commonapp essay, on top of schoolwork, getting a new car, and my sister’s birthday (School only just started like 2 weeks ago too, so I’m still getting back into it mentally), so I hadn’t the chance to thoroughly look through the suggestions.

Whew! I know that feeling. :hot_face:

As a research method, you can gain a sense for the size of the classics communities at colleges of potential interest with IPEDS information. The numbers of first majors in classics, Ancient Greek, or Latin in a recent year appear under Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics. See, for example, College Navigator - Swarthmore College .

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I’m no expert but a 1500 or 1510 PSAT should get you at least NMSF status I would think.

Worst case for 1500 is Eng 740+Math 760, which is index 224.

NJ has a cut off of 225 this year for NMSF.