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Anonymous wrote:Syracuse is not a target anymore. I’d definitely add another school to your targets.

According to DS’s scattergram, with lower stats than OP’s kid, 100% changed at Syracuse.
But is it urban?

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Anonymous wrote:Rochester, Case Western, Villanova, Carnegie Mellon as targets (maybe a slight reach).

Agree with Pitt. How about American as a target?

CMU is a REACH for everyone, hard reach if you want CS/Eng

https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/how-to-get-into-carnegie-mellon/

This is 2 years ago, so should be lower now, but doesn't look too bad other than CS.

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Anonymous wrote:Rochester, Case Western, Villanova, Carnegie Mellon as targets (maybe a slight reach).

Agree with Pitt. How about American as a target?

CMU is a REACH for everyone, hard reach if you want CS/Eng

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Anonymous wrote:Rochester, Case Western, Villanova, Carnegie Mellon as targets (maybe a slight reach).

Agree with Pitt. How about American as a target?

CMU is a REACH for everyone, hard reach if you want CS/Eng

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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.

OP here good point- but tor kid felt the Burlington was a cute town (we visited). Agree about location of Wes. and size but it was a little bigger than the other SLACS so it's on the long list to look at.

And to the other PP, the snarky person who asked why we are asking the DCUM group- I already addressed that. Yes- I am paying $50,000K and was flummoxed by the list provided by our college office. Are you happy now? What is your excuse for lurking, reading the post, then needing to be mean and unhelpful?

I have actually found there to many nice supportive people with great knowledge bases on DCUM, so I wanted to hear from them. Thanks for the good suggestions from many of you so far- Major: probably Psychology or biology but maybe history. Kid is still undecided.

Rochester would be an excellent choice, and a target for your kid (35% acceptance rate). Their cluster system (in place of core curriculum) allows students to explore what they love more in dept. Basically there are 3 categories: Humanities, social sciences and StEM. Your major falls into 1, then you take 3 courses (12 credit hours) in each of the other categories, but those 12 credit Hours are ALL in the same discipline (and from an approved list for that area of interest). You take a freshman writing course and that is the only requirement. Otherwise, you get to study what you want. Most non-stem majors double major or single major and double or triple minor, since you are halfway to a minor with your cluster.

+1 Also know that Rochester values the interview. Visit and if your kid has any interest at all (or even if not sure) schedule an interview while you can get one. Do it while the visit is fresh. It's definately a school that values the interview so do one to show demonstrated interested, especially if you are a high stats kid (UR is filled with kids who did not get into T20 schools, and many who did but liked the programs at UR better).

I LOVE Rochester for a target but demonstrated interest is key. My dc also really liked Denver, Clark and American for safeties.

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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.

OP here good point- but tor kid felt the Burlington was a cute town (we visited). Agree about location of Wes. and size but it was a little bigger than the other SLACS so it's on the long list to look at.

And to the other PP, the snarky person who asked why we are asking the DCUM group- I already addressed that. Yes- I am paying $50,000K and was flummoxed by the list provided by our college office. Are you happy now? What is your excuse for lurking, reading the post, then needing to be mean and unhelpful?

I have actually found there to many nice supportive people with great knowledge bases on DCUM, so I wanted to hear from them. Thanks for the good suggestions from many of you so far- Major: probably Psychology or biology but maybe history. Kid is still undecided.

Rochester would be an excellent choice, and a target for your kid (35% acceptance rate). Their cluster system (in place of core curriculum) allows students to explore what they love more in dept. Basically there are 3 categories: Humanities, social sciences and StEM. Your major falls into 1, then you take 3 courses (12 credit hours) in each of the other categories, but those 12 credit Hours are ALL in the same discipline (and from an approved list for that area of interest). You take a freshman writing course and that is the only requirement. Otherwise, you get to study what you want. Most non-stem majors double major or single major and double or triple minor, since you are halfway to a minor with your cluster.

+1 Also know that Rochester values the interview. Visit and if your kid has any interest at all (or even if not sure) schedule an interview while you can get one. Do it while the visit is fresh. It's definately a school that values the interview so do one to show demonstrated interested, especially if you are a high stats kid (UR is filled with kids who did not get into T20 schools, and many who did but liked the programs at UR better).

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.

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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.

OP here good point- but tor kid felt the Burlington was a cute town (we visited). Agree about location of Wes. and size but it was a little bigger than the other SLACS so it's on the long list to look at.

And to the other PP, the snarky person who asked why we are asking the DCUM group- I already addressed that. Yes- I am paying $50,000K and was flummoxed by the list provided by our college office. Are you happy now? What is your excuse for lurking, reading the post, then needing to be mean and unhelpful?

I have actually found there to many nice supportive people with great knowledge bases on DCUM, so I wanted to hear from them. Thanks for the good suggestions from many of you so far- Major: probably Psychology or biology but maybe history. Kid is still undecided.

Rochester would be an excellent choice, and a target for your kid (35% acceptance rate). Their cluster system (in place of core curriculum) allows students to explore what they love more in dept. Basically there are 3 categories: Humanities, social sciences and StEM. Your major falls into 1, then you take 3 courses (12 credit hours) in each of the other categories, but those 12 credit Hours are ALL in the same discipline (and from an approved list for that area of interest). You take a freshman writing course and that is the only requirement. Otherwise, you get to study what you want. Most non-stem majors double major or single major and double or triple minor, since you are halfway to a minor with your cluster.

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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.

OP here good point- but tor kid felt the Burlington was a cute town (we visited). Agree about location of Wes. and size but it was a little bigger than the other SLACS so it's on the long list to look at.

And to the other PP, the snarky person who asked why we are asking the DCUM group- I already addressed that. Yes- I am paying $50,000K and was flummoxed by the list provided by our college office. Are you happy now? What is your excuse for lurking, reading the post, then needing to be mean and unhelpful?

I have actually found there to many nice supportive people with great knowledge bases on DCUM, so I wanted to hear from them. Thanks for the good suggestions from many of you so far- Major: probably Psychology or biology but maybe history. Kid is still undecided.

Anonymous wrote:Rochester, Case Western, Villanova, Carnegie Mellon as targets (maybe a slight reach).

Agree with Pitt. How about American as a target?

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Anonymous wrote:Syracuse is not a target anymore. I’d definitely add another school to your targets.

According to DS’s scattergram, with lower stats than OP’s kid, 100% changed at Syracuse.
But is it urban?

Anonymous wrote:Syracuse is not a target anymore. I’d definitely add another school to your targets.

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Our kid likes a medium to large sized school in an urban/city area but with a campus i.e Columbia not NYU.

My kid was in the same boat.

Outside of T20 T25, hard to beat Northeastern.

Except NO CAMPUS

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Our kid likes a medium to large sized school in an urban/city area but with a campus i.e Columbia not NYU.

My kid was in the same boat.

Outside of T20 T25, hard to beat Northeastern.

Except NO CAMPUS