MD Student Needs Safety Options

[Anonymous]

DC with similar stats applied to UMD and Pitt as safeties got in both with merits

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m not crazy about ED but it is critical to apply ED to the slacs as that is when they take most of their class. If your dd strongly prefers SLACs, I would plan on having an ED1 and ED2 option. I would also add another 2 to 3 on the match/reach category as the ones you have are near impossible to get into. Schools like Bowdoin, Moddlebury, Davidson.

And only apply ED to SLACs that have previously admitted kids from your HS who aren't URMs, legacies or recruited athletes. For example at our well-regarded NOVA public, the only kids who've gotten into either Willams or Amherst in the last several years fall into one of those categories.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m not crazy about ED but it is critical to apply ED to the slacs as that is when they take most of their class. If your dd strongly prefers SLACs, I would plan on having an ED1 and ED2 option. I would also add another 2 to 3 on the match/reach category as the ones you have are near impossible to get into. Schools like Bowdoin, Moddlebury, Davidson.

And only apply ED to SLACs that have previously admitted kids from your HS who aren't URMs, legacies or recruited athletes. For example at our well-regarded NOVA public, the only kids who've gotten into either Willams or Amherst in the last several years fall into one of those categories.

FYI Amherst doesn’t have a legacy preference. Ditched it a few years ago.

[Anonymous]

My dd applied to four of the SLACs on your list, and one of her safeties was Lawrence University. It has a conservatory, and we liked that non-music majors can participate in music there. They also have a free application, with EA results coming out in mid-December. No idea about ballet, though!

[Anonymous]

Fwiw neither my college or law school (go figure) offfered ballet classes so I just took class wherever it was offered locally. Private studios most likely will have better instructors and a better floor than what a small SLAC can offer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d look into

Wheaton (MA)
St Olaf
Wooster
Susquehanna
Muhlenberg
Hobart/William Smith
U Vermont
U New Hampshire

Juniata
Allegheny
SMCM
U Mass Amherst
Kalamazoo College
I second Hobart but don’t know about ballet there.
Skidmore?
Clark U
U of SC
WVU

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d look into

Wheaton (MA)
St Olaf
Wooster
Susquehanna
Muhlenberg
Hobart/William Smith
U Vermont
U New Hampshire

Juniata
Allegheny
SMCM
U Mass Amherst
Kalamazoo College
I second Hobart but don’t know about ballet there.
Skidmore?
Clark U
U of SC
WVU

Clark, Merrimack, Stonehill, Wheaton, Skidmore, Assumption, loyola MD, Lafayette

[Anonymous]

Some of your targets are also reaches if RD. Skidmore or Muhlenberg seem like good additions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of your targets are also reaches if RD. Skidmore or Muhlenberg seem like good additions.

For an arty white (if she is) girl, Hamilton and Wesleyan are difficult admits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

You don’t need any more safeties. Most of the schools on your target are actually safeties for your kid. The reaches are reaches though.

[Anonymous]

Hobart/William Smith

They give good aid.

[Anonymous]

I have a dancer too. But she wants urban. Hard to find schools with ballet. Consider Smith/Mt Holyoke?

[Anonymous]

I’ve heard great things about dance at SUNY Purchase. Good safety?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Washington college in md? What about u Delaware
Not a safety but oberlin? Kenyon? Grinnell

I don't know that I'd call Kenyon or Oberlin safeties.

How about Salisbury or Frostburg State for state schools? Washington College is a good suggestion, but it's a private college, I think.

Grinnell acceptance rate last year was 9%

[Anonymous]

With thise stats, I would say Bard and Dickenson, maybe UMD are likelies. You could add St. Marys -- heard great things and Muhlenberg.