safety, target, and reach suggestions?Answered
hi! i'm a junior and am starting to work on a running list of schools to look at. considering the criteria and my achievments below, what would be some safety, target, and reach schools for me?
-demographics: white, catholic, female, upper middle class, i go to a catholic school that sends a lot of ppl to villanova, BC, notre dame, etc.
-i want to stay on east coast/mid-atlantic (NY, NJ, PA, CT, etc.)
-planning to major in polisci and/or linguistics
-want to go to a school that takes academics seriously but not cutthroat, doesn't have huge greek life, leans left/moderate, small or medium school with small class sizes, can be private, catholic, liberal arts, public, in a suburb area or near a city but not in a city.
-likely will go test optional bc of a vision disorder that makes standardized tests difficult for me
-straight A's/A+'s, several awards for top grades schoolwide, and taking most advanced courses available (except some STEM courses-due to disorder as well)
-coursework focused on humanities/social sciences: ap us gov, apush, lang, psych, apes, plan to take ap spanish, lit, comparative gov, compsci, macro as a senior
-created a mental health nonprofit: got $700 grant from a fellowship program, covering the cost of nonprofit registration, website creation, advertising, etc. Also hosting panels w other mental health advocates, mental health professionals, etc. Working on implementing a mental health curriculum at my HS and other local schools.
-internship on national board of of a youth politics/voter registration org: doing social media outreach, phonebanking, helping set up college campus chapters of the org
-president of school Junior State of America (JSA) chapter, a politics club at my HS. selected to attend national summit w top 50 students in JSA
-i also hold a regional leadership role that focuses on outreach and promoting diversity in the organization.
-national spanish exam: scored in 99th percentile and got "gold award" as a frosh and soph.
-speech and debate: i hold state titles (1st/2nd place) for politics-related debate and for an Original Oratory speech i wrote myself and performed
-editor for both the school paper and school magazine
-member of HS peer mentor team that promotes mental health
-member of HS band
-planning to do girls state, keep working on my nonprofit, and intern for my local paper this summer.
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I would suggest some of the seven sisters schools. (ex. Vassar and Barnard) You have some amazing stats and seem like a college like Barnard would be a good target school.
Hey there @zz2024!
I obviously don't know all of the schools in America, so I can't give you any actual recommendations about what specific schools you should look into, but I will recommend a few platforms to help you narrow it down.
1. CollegeVine has a preference quiz (which you've likely already taken) and can recommend some schools to you. I think you can take the quiz in your profile, it's usually the first thing you do after you sign up. You can also find safeties, targets, and reaches under the "schools" tab.
2. If you've taken any College Board tests, they have a page where you can look at different schools and look at what they offer, including location, size, price, religious affiliation, etc.
3. Niche is a website that will recommend schools to you if you have an account, but you can also easily browse schools without one too. They have lists that feature the best colleges in America, the best colleges for certain programs, schools in certain cities/areas, rural colleges, religious schools, and all the information about each of these colleges. I would definitely recommend looking around on Niche for a while, it's very useful and will even curate your list of colleges based on how important you deem each factor to be.
I'm sorry I couldn't give you any more specific advice, but I hope this helps and I wish you good luck!
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