Safeties/ matches please....

[Anonymous]

help need safeties/matches:

My child is a junior at a big 3 with GREAT grades and a strong kind of unique extracurricular. Otherwise unhooked, we can swing full pay and have saved up, but merit somewhere would be amazing. Our kid likes a medium to large sized school in an urban/city area but with a campus i.e Columbia not NYU. A big fun college town can work too.

High Reaches: Princeton, Yale, Duke, Northwestern (I know these are basically impossible will choose one or two to try)
More reaches Wesleyan, Emory , Michigan, Cornell
Target: Wisconsin, University of Toronto, Syracuse
Safety? UVM? Colorado? Indiana

Please help with targets and safeties (though we are very aware there seem to be no true safeties these days)- Are there medium sized schools 5000-8000 kids we are missing?

Yes -we asked our College Office is suggesting a lot of slac's and they are too small or too rural. I know everything is random and difficult to predict.

Hoping the great DCUM hive mind will have some suggestions! Thanks in advance.

[Anonymous]

University of Toronto is currently the top Canadian university. I don't think you can call it a target. I don't care who you think your kid is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:University of Toronto is currently the top Canadian university. I don't think you can call it a target. I don't care who you think your kid is.

Interesting out CO said it was a safety bc our kid is high stats, but I did not agree and moved it to match.

[Anonymous]

georgetown as target

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:University of Toronto is currently the top Canadian university. I don't think you can call it a target. I don't care who you think your kid is.

Interesting out CO said it was a safety bc our kid is high stats, but I did not agree and moved it to match.

yeah good luck with that. come back when he's got his offers and you can crow as much as you like. right now it's meaningless

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:help need safeties/matches:

My child is a junior at a big 3 with GREAT grades and a strong kind of unique extracurricular. Otherwise unhooked, we can swing full pay and have saved up, but merit somewhere would be amazing. Our kid likes a medium to large sized school in an urban/city area but with a campus i.e Columbia not NYU. A big fun college town can work too.

High Reaches: Princeton, Yale, Duke, Northwestern (I know these are basically impossible will choose one or two to try)
More reaches Wesleyan, Emory , Michigan, Cornell
Target: Wisconsin, University of Toronto, Syracuse
Safety? UVM? Colorado? Indiana

Please help with targets and safeties (though we are very aware there seem to be no true safeties these days)- Are there medium sized schools 5000-8000 kids we are missing?

Yes -we asked our College Office is suggesting a lot of slac's and they are too small or too rural. I know everything is random and difficult to predict.

Hoping the great DCUM hive mind will have some suggestions! Thanks in advance.

What does your son or daughter want to study ?

Any career in mind ?

[Anonymous]

A lot depends on what your child wants to study.
I would also look at WashU, Carnegie Mellon, Case Western, Vanderbilt, Rice, Tufts, Brandeis, BC, Villanova

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:University of Toronto is currently the top Canadian university. I don't think you can call it a target. I don't care who you think your kid is.

Interesting out CO said it was a safety bc our kid is high stats, but I did not agree and moved it to match.

yeah good luck with that. come back when he's got his offers and you can crow as much as you like. right now it's meaningless

I think it is really major dependent. The nice Ty info about Canadian universities is that they are pretty straightforward as to what they consider and where the cut off is. Some majors or programs may be harder to get into.

[Anonymous]

Boston College, Tufts, Pitt as a safety

[Anonymous]

Echo the sentiment that area of study will matter. For example, CU Boulder isn’t going to be a safety for engineering. Syracuse also has some very impacted majors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boston College, Tufts, Pitt as a safety

Excellent list

[Anonymous]

Santa Clara and Loyola Marymount (Los Angeles) for targets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Boston College, Tufts, Pitt as a safety

Excellent list

Going to need to ED at Tufts or BC.

[Anonymous]

Tulane

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:help need safeties/matches:

My child is a junior at a big 3 with GREAT grades and a strong kind of unique extracurricular. Otherwise unhooked, we can swing full pay and have saved up, but merit somewhere would be amazing. Our kid likes a medium to large sized school in an urban/city area but with a campus i.e Columbia not NYU. A big fun college town can work too.

High Reaches: Princeton, Yale, Duke, Northwestern (I know these are basically impossible will choose one or two to try)
More reaches Wesleyan, Emory , Michigan, Cornell
Target: Wisconsin, University of Toronto, Syracuse
Safety? UVM? Colorado? Indiana

Please help with targets and safeties (though we are very aware there seem to be no true safeties these days)- Are there medium sized schools 5000-8000 kids we are missing?

Yes -we asked our College Office is suggesting a lot of slac's and they are too small or too rural. I know everything is random and difficult to predict.

Hoping the great DCUM hive mind will have some suggestions! Thanks in advance.

Curious how you came to decide upon Wesleyan which doesn't seem to jive with size or city preferences. Burlington and Bloomington also have less than 100k residents.