Need help finding match schools

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Hello, I am about to be a senior in high school. I am in the process of creating a list of colleges to apply to this fall/winter, and my list seems to be reach-heavy. I won’t go into too many details regarding my stats/ecs to save some time, but I will say that I have about a 3.98 UW GPA with a rigorous courseload as well as a 34 ACT. I am not sure what I want to major in yet, but I am leaning toward computer science or a pre-med track of some sort (not sure about the actual major for pre-med). Here is the list that I have so far:

University of Oregon (Safety)
Oregon State Univeristy (Safety)

USC
Pomona
Stanford
Cornell
Princeton
Dartmouth
Rice
Duke

I clearly need more schools in the match/safety category. I have tried to research some schools, and one that I found interesting was Northeastern. I am looking for schools with a medium size (around 5000-14,000 undergrads [I realize that Pomona only has a couple thousand students but it is an exception due to the Consortium]), and location is not a factor. Also, using financial aid calculators online, my family does not seem to be eligible for financial aid. However, I would love to apply to some schools in the match category that would potentially give me some form of merit aid. Please feel free to suggest any schools that come to mind. Thank you!

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I’d suggest University of Alabama as a safety school. You’d get the value of tuition and potentially more. (http://scholarships.ua.edu/types/out-of-state.html). A few other suggestions include University of Georgia (https://www2.admissions.uga.edu/article/scholarships-at-uga.html), Case Western, University of South Carolina, Tulane, and University of Maryland. Best of luck!

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@Nattybow2015 Thank you for the response, I will look into those schools.

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One other thing I forgot to mention–I am primarily looking for match schools that are private schools known to offer merit aid.

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How about Emory?

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Many midwestern LACs would qualify - St Olaf, Denison, Kenyon, Wooster.

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) sounds like it would meet your requirements.

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Boston College, Wake Forest, University of Rochester, Lehigh, and NYU would be matches probably.

Some high(er) matches might include Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Davidson, Colby and Grinnell.

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Thank you @dadinator @ Erin’s Dad for the suggestions. I will look into them.

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@prezbucky Thank you, I will take a look at them

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