Reach/Target/Likely list - any thoughts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Villanova is a reach for business.

Suggest the following low targets:
TCU
Fordham

For safeties, your in-state publics.

There are already in state public's on the list. Some are safeties, but some are a reach. Learn to read and also understand that publics does not automatically mean easy

OP's post does not include the state of residence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Villanova is a reach for business.

Suggest the following low targets:
TCU
Fordham

For safeties, your in-state publics.

There are already in state public's on the list. Some are safeties, but some are a reach. Learn to read and also understand that publics does not automatically mean easy

OP's post does not include the state of residence.

Nevermind, I see it now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curious what people think about my unhooked junior son's list. We are looking to plan some spring break college visits so trying to refine the list a bit over winter break.

He's interested in applying to the business schools at these places, or perhaps political science/econ.

Weighted GPA 4.2, SAT 1490. Unweighted GPA is 3.97 (two Bs in freshman year, maybe a B in an IB class this year). IB Diploma candidate. Top GPA possible at our school is between a 4.4-4.5 because we don't offer a ton of AP classes and honors classes aren't weighted. Virginia resident, public school.

I'd love to know if there are other schools that should be on our list based on these schools. We especially need some more "likely" schools.

Reach:
University of Southern California Marshall School of Business
Georgetown
UVA
William & Mary
Wake Forest

Target:
University of Pittsburgh
University of Washington
Lehigh
Villanova
Loyola Marymount (in LA)

Likely:
JMU
CNU
University of Delaware (?)

Sorry, but this kid won’t get into Marshall or Georgetown. ED to UVA and ED2 to Wm and Mary and should be fine.

Definitely check out Kelly at Indiana. Great business school.

Definitely in play for Georgetown.

[Anonymous]

I think William and Mary is definitely more of a match, not reach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curious what people think about my unhooked junior son's list. We are looking to plan some spring break college visits so trying to refine the list a bit over winter break.

He's interested in applying to the business schools at these places, or perhaps political science/econ.

Weighted GPA 4.2, SAT 1490. Unweighted GPA is 3.97 (two Bs in freshman year, maybe a B in an IB class this year). IB Diploma candidate. Top GPA possible at our school is between a 4.4-4.5 because we don't offer a ton of AP classes and honors classes aren't weighted. Virginia resident, public school.

I'd love to know if there are other schools that should be on our list based on these schools. We especially need some more "likely" schools.

Reach:
University of Southern California Marshall School of Business
Georgetown
UVA
William & Mary
Wake Forest

Target:
University of Pittsburgh
University of Washington
Lehigh
Villanova
Loyola Marymount (in LA)

Likely:
JMU
CNU
University of Delaware (?)

Sorry, but this kid won’t get into Marshall or Georgetown. ED to UVA and ED2 to Wm and Mary and should be fine.

Definitely check out Kelly at Indiana. Great business school.

ED to Uva is a reach.

Have VTech and GMU on your list.

I would say soft target

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Curious what people think about my unhooked junior son's list. We are looking to plan some spring break college visits so trying to refine the list a bit over winter break.

He's interested in applying to the business schools at these places, or perhaps political science/econ.

Weighted GPA 4.2, SAT 1490. Unweighted GPA is 3.97 (two Bs in freshman year, maybe a B in an IB class this year). IB Diploma candidate. Top GPA possible at our school is between a 4.4-4.5 because we don't offer a ton of AP classes and honors classes aren't weighted. Virginia resident, public school.

I'd love to know if there are other schools that should be on our list based on these schools. We especially need some more "likely" schools.

Reach:
University of Southern California Marshall School of Business
Georgetown
UVA
William & Mary
Wake Forest

Target:
University of Pittsburgh
University of Washington
Lehigh
Villanova
Loyola Marymount (in LA)

Likely:
JMU
CNU
University of Delaware (?)

Good list. 13 schools is enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curious what people think about my unhooked junior son's list. We are looking to plan some spring break college visits so trying to refine the list a bit over winter break.

He's interested in applying to the business schools at these places, or perhaps political science/econ.

Weighted GPA 4.2, SAT 1490. Unweighted GPA is 3.97 (two Bs in freshman year, maybe a B in an IB class this year). IB Diploma candidate. Top GPA possible at our school is between a 4.4-4.5 because we don't offer a ton of AP classes and honors classes aren't weighted. Virginia resident, public school.

I'd love to know if there are other schools that should be on our list based on these schools. We especially need some more "likely" schools.

Reach:
University of Southern California Marshall School of Business
Georgetown
UVA
William & Mary
Wake Forest

Target:
University of Pittsburgh
University of Washington
Lehigh
Villanova
Loyola Marymount (in LA)

Likely:
JMU
CNU
University of Delaware (?)

Sorry, but this kid won’t get into Marshall or Georgetown. ED to UVA and ED2 to Wm and Mary and should be fine.

Definitely check out Kelly at Indiana. Great business school.

Definitely in play for Georgetown.

Don’t underestimate how tough of an admit Georgetown is. Also, the application year in question will be their first on the common app. Strongly advise against wasting an ED card for an EA Georgetown pipe dream. UVA ED will be a much easier admit (not to say it will be easy).

[Anonymous]

Pitt parent here.
Pitt tracks interest, specifically visits/tours. If you can work in an official tour, AND your son applies in August (do not let this slide), then it’s a safety for him.
If he gets a quick response and likes the school, he can then cull his list of schools he doesn’t like as much.

My daughter loved her tour and got in Sept 10 of her senior year - her list shrunk quite a bit after that!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also look at:

Indiana Kelly (target based on his stats)
South Carolina, especially honors and international business (also target)
VT

You don’t need that many likelies, with his stats he will probably get into JMU and CNU.

Are you full pay?

For a better shot at the reaches, get his SAT over 1500, and more like 1550, especially math. Take the June or August SAT.

thank you! Yes, we'd be full pay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pitt parent here.
Pitt tracks interest, specifically visits/tours. If you can work in an official tour, AND your son applies in August (do not let this slide), then it’s a safety for him.
If he gets a quick response and likes the school, he can then cull his list of schools he doesn’t like as much.

My daughter loved her tour and got in Sept 10 of her senior year - her list shrunk quite a bit after that!

Thanks! yes, this is our plan.

For safeties, we'll visit UMW and CNU and he can decide which vibe/school he likes more, I think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would add Fordham as a target. The Rose Hill campus is gorgeous, the Lincoln Center campus is right in the heart of things, and although it's not the right fit for my dc, we left the tour thinking that if they were stronger in what he wants to study it would be a no-brainer. For a true safety, Loyola Maryland is a shoo-in and gives merit, and the University of Mary Washington (in state for you). He'd be in the honors cohort and could really shine there.

Are they assigned to one campus or another at Fordham? How does that work?

[Anonymous]

Purdue has a pretty good business school too. U of Iowa is a very interesting place too. Fairly manageable size compared to other Big 10 schools, & very fun town.

[Anonymous]

Very similar to our DS’s stats and list of schools and he had decent success. Solid list. If you check out Lehigh visit Lafayette too. Notre Dame has a good business program. Try to get him to scratch out a few more points on SAT and will be in excellent shape. Some reaches become targets and can add some reaches.

[Anonymous]

William and Mary is more of a match for your kid, especially if male. My son (OOS) had a similar profile re scores and grades and got in RD as did another classmate (boy) with a similar profile.

[Anonymous]

Wake Forest is a high target for your kid- maybe a low target if his grades put him in the top 10% of the class