<p>current junior with rigorous curriculum in very competitive, prestigious magnet high school</p>
<p>gpa: 3.85 out of possible 4.0
sat: 2250
subjects: math-800, planning to take bio and chem
lots of extracurriculars and leadership
no competitions/special awards</p>
<p>reach: cornell, washington univ in st louis, northwestern, umich
target: uconn, uchicago, boston college, barnard, carnegie mellon
safety: rutgers, boston univ, emory</p>
<p>what should i add/delete ?</p>
<p>Emory is not a safety, I would move it up your list. I’m not sure if it would be target or reach, or somewhere in between.</p>
<p>I would aslo suggest that U Chicago is more appopriately categorized up a notch into your reach schools. And I would move UMichigan down a notch into your target schools.</p>
<p>Sit down with your parents and ask them what your family can afford to pay. Then find at least one college or university that your family can pay for without any financial aid other than federally determined need-based (FAFSA) aid, where you are certain of admission due to your stats, and that you would be happy to attend if all else goes wrong in the application process. Most likely this is your home-state public U or (for the first two years) your local community college. However, given your grades and SAT scores, there also are some other institutions that would guarantee you admission that might be affordable: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/848226-important-links-automatic-guaranteed-merit-scholarships.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/848226-important-links-automatic-guaranteed-merit-scholarships.html</a> Find your Rock-Solid Financial and Academic Safety, and do your best to develop a bit of affection for it in case it ends up being your best (or only) option this time next year.</p>
<p>Since you like Barnard, you could also consider Bryn Mawr, Mt. Holyoke, Smith, and Wellesley as targets or reaches. Safeties would include the next tier of women’s colleges such as Agnes Scott, Hollins, Spellman, Sweet Briar, etc. For a full list, see [The</a> Women’s College Coalition](<a href=“http://www.womenscolleges.org/]The”>http://www.womenscolleges.org/)</p>
<p>emory is not a safety unless you have a parent who work there or is a legacy. it’s between target and reach with more tilt toward reach. uchicago is a reach unless you are urm/legacy/recruited athlete. the problem is that you don’t have any awards so you really need super super super good essays to get into your reaches</p>
<p>Eh, I don’t get what these people are saying with Emory not being a safety. Of course you have to have decent essays, but Emory isn’t that bad. It’s low match at the hardest, and definitely a safety if it’s Oxford College. Too many people have gotten into Emory with lower stats and no hooks to call it anything higher than a match. My school gets a lot of people into Emory every year and has a Naviance profile, so this is a pretty good prediction.</p>
<p>Do you like Brown any? I’ve never seen someone apply to only one Ivy.</p>
<p>Move Barnard and Chicago to reaches. Take a look at Chicago admissions this year- crazy.</p>
<p>@lullinatalk Emory would be a safety if this person applied ED. people from my school get rejected from Emory all the time and they have 3.9 uw but they dont standout. yes people with 3.6 uw also got in but they only got into oxford because their parents work for emory. unless you are urm, the 3.85 gpa will not get you into emory in RD. as for many people from your school, were they accepted to oxford or emory? there is a big difference. also, to be a safety, you must standout with low stat through awards or extremely good essays</p>
<p>I agree: UMich can move to target (your stats are fine for them!) and UChicago moves to “reach.” With no realy “story” yet to your profile, we here are limited in our advice to more of the stat-heavy schools. UNC could work for you, even OOS. All of the ivies need a story, however, so produce one.</p>
<p>why is ED easier to get into than RD?</p>
<p>i do like brown a lot, especially since i want to pursue pre-med in the future
but brown is very competitive? </p>
<p>i dont’ think i would be admitted into any ivy’s!
and i think cornell would be a reach.</p>
<p>colleges admit a certain % of ED every year. since there is less people apply via ED, your chances go up</p>
<p>waddddup</p>
<p>You might want to take a look at this.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-chicago/1105661-look-these-scores-u-chicago-2015-rd.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-chicago/1105661-look-these-scores-u-chicago-2015-rd.html</a></p>
<p>I’m basing my Emory judgment on my school’s Naviance data, and I think there are around 20-30 dots on the graph. The average SAT is somewhere in the 2000s and we don’t do 4.0 scale, so I have no idea on GPA. I have known truly unimpressive people with no hooks or legacy who got into Emory (not Oxford, Oxford is a separate graph). But then, my school is 1.5 hours from Emory, so being in-state might have count slightly favorably, although I doubt it. I had almost the same stats as the OP and was told I “could get in without even doing senior year” by a counselor who has been counseling for 10+ years.</p>