Anonymous
Post 07/03/2025 18:17     Subject: 4.0 uw 4.8 w Which colleges as reach?
Rochester also gives generous merit.
Anonymous
Post 07/03/2025 12:35     Subject: 4.0 uw 4.8 w Which colleges as reach?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:How does your DC rank at their school? Do you qualify for QB? If the answer is top 10 and qualified for qb, it’s a different story—try ivies and top 10 schools that are test optional.

Otherwise, there are many lacs generous with aid and are test optional. Case Western (not a lac) is particularly generous with aid. It is possible to get full aid at case western.


Case Western full aid is unlikely for unhooked test optional with that major


Agree. I'd rethink that major everywhere tbh. It's so common.
Sociology might be better and still aligned.
Anonymous
Post 07/03/2025 12:31     Subject: 4.0 uw 4.8 w Which colleges as reach?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Given the SAT score, uou might want to consider this list of test optionals from another thread:

[Here’s a list of of test optional schools where more than 50% of the admitted class last year was test optional (private schools with greatest # of admitted TO students):

UChicago
WashU
Vanderbilt
USC
Pomona
Claremont McKenna
NYU
BU
UMiami
Wesleyan
Northeastern
Villanova
Middlebury
Lehigh
Wake
Tufts
Tulane]

If you are interested in large public schools, UCs are test optional, but Berkeley and UCLA are difficult OOS.


with the SAT score the OP will drown at the bolded schools, if they miraculously get in.


There was a recent post where they reported sub-1200 kids did really well in elite colleges. It’s too judgmental to say what you said based on test score only.
Anonymous
Post 07/02/2025 12:44     Subject: 4.0 uw 4.8 w Which colleges as reach?
Anonymous wrote:How does your DC rank at their school? Do you qualify for QB? If the answer is top 10 and qualified for qb, it’s a different story—try ivies and top 10 schools that are test optional.

Otherwise, there are many lacs generous with aid and are test optional. Case Western (not a lac) is particularly generous with aid. It is possible to get full aid at case western.


Case Western full aid is unlikely for unhooked test optional with that major
Anonymous
Post 07/02/2025 12:38     Subject: 4.0 uw 4.8 w Which colleges as reach?
It’s unclear if the OP is “poor” enough to qualify for new based aid or just wants merit aid to bring costs down (totally understandable) but those are different kinds of schools. Many give need aid and almost no merit.

Agree with a PP that reach schools aren’t good if you need merit aid.
Anonymous
Post 07/02/2025 12:25     Subject: Re:4.0 uw 4.8 w Which colleges as reach?
Anonymous wrote:Geez, what a toxic thread.

Also, no one is answering your call for urban/suburban on the East Coast.

Would she be interested in Temple? Not everyone is, due to high crime in the surrounding neighborhood, but it's an excellent school that meets some of her criteria. Her stats would make her strong enough to get some merit. Also, maybe Philly's Thomas Jefferson University and St. Joe's. They are in nicer neighborhoods and are generous with aid.

I agree with Pitt.

Virginia Commonwealth

Maybe some mid-level Jesuit schools like Marist, Providence


Me again. Sorry, OP, now I see that you are looking for reach schools. These are more targets.

The problem is that a reach for your kid will be unlikely to give her any merit. So I would aim to keep overall costs low (like at your state flagship) or pick somewhere like I suggested, where she'll be a comparatively strong student.