Safety School Suggestions? Please help :-)

kotakota
Wed, 12 Aug 2015 21:01:58 +0000

Hi! I’m a rising senior and I have found a lot of “reach” schools that I love, but need more “safeties”.

I have a 4.4 gpa or 3.9 unweighted (got my first B in Pre-Calculus Honors last year) and I got a 2290 on the SAT (800 writing, 720 math, 770 reading). I got 5s on my three AP tests so far and I’m going to take a couple SAT Subject tests next month. My class rank is about 10 out of 450. Schedule for next year: AP English Lit, AP Stat, AP French IV, AP Econ/Gov, Zoology, Sociology. My strength has always been writing, so fingers crossed I can whip out a good essay.

My main EC is that I’m really involved in theater at my school, but I also volunteer 3 hours a week at a wildlife hospital/museum near me, taking care of animals, doing presentations to educate the public, giving tours to scout troups, etc. I’ve worked there since I was 12. I’m an editor of my school’s Lit Magazine. I got the “Harvard book award” last year. I worked at Starbucks one summer. Some clubs. Vice President of Cult Film Club? I’m sure that looks great.

So far my list is:

Boston College
Brown
Duke
NYU
UNC Chapel Hill (applying from out of state)
Vanderbilt
Middlebury
Wake Forest University
Northwestern

Also UC Berkeley and UC Santa Barbara. Would Santa Cruz be a good safety?

I need suggestions of schools with higher acceptance rates! Geographic location and size don’t really matter, but I would like to be in or near a city. White female. The more financial aid available the better! Right now, I’m thinking about majoring in something like English, Psychology, or Anthropology, but also taking science classes so I can apply to med school. Thank you so much!