MD Student Needs Safety Options
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HS Junior with 4.0 uw and 4.8 w with ACT of 35 and mostly honors/AP on track to get IB diploma. We are finalizing the list and planning on visiting schools this spring. We feel like we have a good list of reaches and targets, but are missing a few safeties. Requirements are not big city urban, some kind of orchestra non-music majors can audition for, and some kind of ballet classes at more than just the introductory level that non-majors can take.
Reaches Swarthmore Williams Amherst College Targets Wesleyan Hamilton UMD Franklin & Marshall Dickinson Bard Safeties Towson University ??? I looked at Goucher, but while it fits the requirements, it is really small and heavily weighted to women. I checked out SUNY Stoney Brook and Binghamton, but no good ballet option. Any other options occur to folks? Bard might be a safety, but it's small so I don't want to put it in that category. She'd rather go bigger than smaller if it's a safety. She's ruled out Penn State because she expects several friends to go there and does not want to be in college with them. |
Anonymous
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Washington college in md? What about u Delaware
Not a safety but oberlin? Kenyon? Grinnell |
Anonymous
| Your best safety is wisely choosing ED1 and ED2 options |
Anonymous
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My senior with similar stats and similar reaches and targets applied to St John's College or his safety, a tiny college with two campuses, one in Annapolis and one in Santa Fe. I believe it has a 50-ish% acceptance rate, but maybe 60-ish% in early action (he got in EA with significant merit aid). It was his only safety - the only one in that range that he would be happy to attend. Very "peculiar" in that all undergrads have the same curriculum - they read mathematicians, philosophers and classic authors in the original English, French or ancient Greek (Pascal, Euclides, etc). Classes are round tables guided by professors holding PhDs. They have a choir and orchestra, but I don't know if they have ballet, and maybe it depends on the campus, so you should ask. Students can spend some time on both campuses or just stay at one of them. There is a big push to accept more international students and diversify the student body.
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Anonymous
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UPitt
But, what is the major? |
Anonymous
| aren't Dickinson and F&M safeties with a unweighted 4.0? |
Anonymous
| Skidmore and Connecticut College |
Anonymous
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Dickinson has a average GPA 3.7
F&M 3.8 Bard 3.7 How are these all not safeties? |
Anonymous
They have under 50% acceptance rates, which makes them safeties for nobody. OP: I am not a fan of the school myself, but so many people are: Elon. They have a try-out dance major, so I assume strong ballet classes. That would a safety for your DD. Also, Hamilton has a single-digit acceptance rate. It's not a target for anybody. |
Anonymous
She said not urban (and it’s “Pitt” not “UPitt”). |
Anonymous
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I’d look into
Wheaton (MA) St Olaf Wooster Susquehanna Muhlenberg Hobart/William Smith U Vermont U New Hampshire |
Anonymous
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She’s willing to go to Towson but not College Park?
Why isn’t College Park on this list? With those stats she might get some nice merit aid. Is money no object? If so, can’t she sign up for ballet classes privately? |
Anonymous
OHIO are you kidding no. |
Anonymous
I’m not OP, but do you not see UMD on the list? |
Anonymous
OP here, thanks--never heard of some of these. Off to research! |