Suggest target schools for this profile

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please suggest target schools for this profile.

Current junior at FCPS large high school. Captain and starter of her varsity sport, but not a lot of other extracurriculars and not a candidate for D1 or sports scholarships or anything like that. Consistently has gotten 5 A’s and 2B’s each school year. 1250 SAT. Will have 8 AP’s. Prefers a smaller school.

In which subjects has she received her B grades ? (Very important.)

OP: Majoring in business is quite different than majoring in "pre-law".

Please define "smaller school" in terms of undergraduate enrollment.

Does she prefer warm or cold weather ? Is her sport an activity that she wants to continue during college on a less formal basis ? If yes, what is her sport ?

[Anonymous]

Smaller school with that profile— St. Olaf and Wooster come to mind as solid matches that should give your kid merit. These were my kids safeties and we visited both. I would have been okay with either. But personally, I really liked St Olaf.

Oberlin, Kenyon, and Macalaster (esp if full pay) also come to mind as match/higher match with merit being possible. Grinnell as a reach. Carleton as reach w/ little to no merit offered.

Clealy, we focused on the Midwestern SLACS.

[Anonymous]

Elizabethtown
Moravian
Ursinus

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Franklin & Marshall
Lehigh
Bucknell
JMU

Apply TO

LOL. You're kidding? JMU maybe (depending on location), but not lehigh or bucknell

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Smaller school with that profile— St. Olaf and Wooster come to mind as solid matches that should give your kid merit. These were my kids safeties and we visited both. I would have been okay with either. But personally, I really liked St Olaf.

Oberlin, Kenyon, and Macalaster (esp if full pay) also come to mind as match/higher match with merit being possible. Grinnell as a reach. Carleton as reach w/ little to no merit offered.

Clealy, we focused on the Midwestern SLACS.

PP, since you focused on midwest, I'm curious, did you look at Lake Forest as a safety?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Franklin & Marshall
Lehigh
Bucknell
JMU

Apply TO

LOL. You're kidding? JMU maybe (depending on location), but not lehigh or bucknell

Lehigh ED? 3.71uw is the low end for middle 50% gpa our school but def depending on major?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Smaller school with that profile— St. Olaf and Wooster come to mind as solid matches that should give your kid merit. These were my kids safeties and we visited both. I would have been okay with either. But personally, I really liked St Olaf.

Oberlin, Kenyon, and Macalaster (esp if full pay) also come to mind as match/higher match with merit being possible. Grinnell as a reach. Carleton as reach w/ little to no merit offered.

Clealy, we focused on the Midwestern SLACS.

PP, since you focused on midwest, I'm curious, did you look at Lake Forest as a safety?

No. Kid was admitted to Pitt rolling decision in September, which basically covered safeties. Wooster we visited when we did Oberlin and Kenyon. St. Olaf was an add on to Macalaster. Both were impressive schools. At that point, we had safeties covered. There were only so many Midwestern trips we had time to make.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like she'd be happy at a LAC, and for targets might aim at some ranked around 50-80 in US News. Hobart & William Smith, Kalamazoo, Rhodes, Muhlenberg, Allegheny, Wooster. Agnes Scott if considering all-female? Maybe Bard if she leans artsy in addition to being sporty.

[Anonymous]

Agree with the above poster that pre-law is different than business. Have attached below links to Duquesne and St. Josephs that talk about being undecided. They seem to steer you into undecided business vs. undecided social sciences or humanities.

Duquesne - https://www.duq.edu/admission-and-aid/duquesne-discover.php
St. Josephs - https://www.sju.edu/degree-programs/undecided-major

I think that its not going to be so helpful for us to throw college names at you right now. The best thing is for your daughter to figure our more what she wants out of college.
I'm not sure if she really has no other ECs or you didn't want to name them but look at those for signs of interest. Or what she does in her free time. Is she passionate enough about soccer to keep playing in college, even recreationally?
There are plenty of schools for her and its okay to be undecided but I think the process is best with some self reflection.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like she'd be happy at a LAC, and for targets might aim at some ranked around 50-80 in US News. Hobart & William Smith, Kalamazoo, Rhodes, Muhlenberg, Allegheny, Wooster. Agnes Scott if considering all-female? Maybe Bard if she leans artsy in addition to being sporty.

Very reasonable list except for Smith.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Franklin & Marshall
Lehigh
Bucknell
JMU

Apply TO

LOL. You're kidding? JMU maybe (depending on location), but not lehigh or bucknell

Bucknell's middle 50% SAT is 1170-1370. ACT is 25-32. It's not a huge reach for OP's kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like she'd be happy at a LAC, and for targets might aim at some ranked around 50-80 in US News. Hobart & William Smith, Kalamazoo, Rhodes, Muhlenberg, Allegheny, Wooster. Agnes Scott if considering all-female? Maybe Bard if she leans artsy in addition to being sporty.

Very reasonable list except for Smith.

NP

Hobart and William Smith is the name of one college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like she'd be happy at a LAC, and for targets might aim at some ranked around 50-80 in US News. Hobart & William Smith, Kalamazoo, Rhodes, Muhlenberg, Allegheny, Wooster. Agnes Scott if considering all-female? Maybe Bard if she leans artsy in addition to being sporty.

Very reasonable list except for Smith.

NP

Hobart and William Smith is the name of one college.

Yup. I just read it wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Franklin & Marshall
Lehigh
Bucknell
JMU

Apply TO

LOL. You're kidding? JMU maybe (depending on location), but not lehigh or bucknell

Bucknell's middle 50% SAT is 1170-1370. ACT is 25-32. It's not a huge reach for OP's kid.

Esp if ED and interest

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The people who just drop the 50 to 100 schools are nuts. Op, you need to talk to selectivity with a college counselor, not go off U.S. news rankings. Those stats will not be good enough for Tulane, NE, Miami, or Clemson oos. Think Syracuse, Delaware, JMU, maybe VTTech for a less competitive major.

But OP said her kid prefers a smaller school.

OP, has she looked at University of Dayton?

I know!

Why are people recommending Penn State?!