Some suggested Reach/Match/Safe schools?

College Search & Lists
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<p>4.0 GPA UW
ap bio, ap history, and ap english
Jewish private school from 8-5:30 (dual curriculum)
4 years of hebrew and two of spanish
lawyer on mock trial
model UN
Acadmeic Bowl
VP of Environmental club
Summer- Stock market trading, toured europe with my family, volunteered at a holocaust museum
Worked with autistic kids for 2 years and now might volunteer at a food pantry
Not so awesome SATs…
possibly will spend this summer taking bio courses at hebrew U
HS junior
Colleges on east coast preferably with an integrated science program</p>

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<p>Not so awesome SATs…</p>

<p>We need that info…otherwise how could we know if a school is a reach/match/safety for you?</p>

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<p>I didnt take my SATs actually but on my PSATS without studying I didnt do very well. Top 85% percentile though.</p>

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<p>Can we get a number please?</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>And, more importantly, some information on the kind of college experience you are looking for.<br>

  1. Small (LAC), private university, big state school
  2. Do you need financial aid
  3. Geographic constraints/preferences-part of the country, weather, urban/rural/suburban, has to have mountains or the sea…
  4. Other criteria: religious affiliation (or a large Jewish population?), single sex, etc…
  5. culture (artsy, jock, intellectual, preppy, quirky, granola, etc…)
  6. what do you plan to study-anything unusual?</p>

<p>We can help more if we know what you are looking for. There are many options and we need to narrow it down.</p>

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<p>You need to sit your parents down and run some of the FAFSA and CSS Profile calculators (there are good ones at [College</a> Calculators - savings calculators - college costs, loans](<a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>Calculate Your College Costs – BigFuture | College Board) ) Find out what your family EFC is. Talk with your parents about how they plan for you to come up with that kind of money. Do they have it in the bank? Do they expect you to take out loans? Do they expect you to get a job?</p>

<p>Once you know more precisely how much money there is, and where it is, you will know how hard you will have to be searching for a Financial Safety. Ideally, you will find a place that you can pay for out of pocket, or with nothing more than federally determined (by the FAFSA) financial aid. If this place also will guarantee admissions based on your GPA and ACT/SAT scores (many public universities do list this kind of information right on their websites), then you have found a Rock-solid Academic Safety. Should this place offer the major(s) that you are interested in, and you can imagine being happy there for four years (or two in the case of a community college) if all else goes wrong in the college-admission process, then you have landed your True Safety! </p>

<p>If none of the colleges/universities you research meets all of the criteria (affordability, likelihood of admissions, major offerings, place you could be happy studying) for True Safety status, see how close you can get. Find a couple Nearly-perfect Safeties, and build your list upwards from there.</p>

<p>As for Matches and Reaches, unless you have a major field that no one in that office has ever heard of, one of the best sources of advice is your high school guidance office. The staff there should have years of data indicating who got in where, when, and with what grades/test scores.</p>

<p>Wishing you all the best.</p>