What colleges to consider?
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Anonymous
| DC is a high school junior at a public high school in DC. Her most recent SAT score was 1440 (780/660 reading/math). Unweighted GPA will be approx. 3.7/weighted will be 4.4. Hispanic. Interesting language-based EC. Wants to be in a city school. What are realistic options? |
Anonymous
| What major? |
Anonymous
| Liberal arts -- probably linguistics |
Anonymous
| I think any school is a possible. At this time focus on finding a safety or two she would like, and you can afford. |
Anonymous
| That's a pretty open-ended question OP. Can you be more specific? Area, size, private vs public...etc.?? |
Anonymous
| OP here. We're open to private or public, although leaning towards the former. Also full-pay, with legacy status at a couple of Ivies. Other than that, no preference on size (beyond not teeny-tiny). Just having a hard time figuring out what is realistic. |
Anonymous
| Sorry - I meant to add that DC wants to be in a city school in the northeast/mid-Atlantic. That should cut things way down. |
Anonymous
| Howard University |
Anonymous
| Has she taken any APs? |
Anonymous
| Tufts? |
Anonymous
| URM w/ good GPA and good SAT. Doors are wide open for her. |
Anonymous
| She will have had approx. 7-8 APs, with scores in the 4-5 range. |
Anonymous
| Harvard, MIT, Tufts, BC, Northeastern, BU.....in that order. The desire for a city school is going to be your limiting factor. |
Anonymous
| City school? How about Columbia or Penn? She's in that range. |
Anonymous
| A 3.7 UW is too low for the Ivies/comparable universities and top SLACs, even if you are a URM. |