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05-01-2008, 09:47 PM
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#1 | | Senior Member
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| Need places to look...
My parents are freaking out because they can't think of any more quality schools to look at in the north east...
Me:
GPA 3.9
Rank: Top 5%, Somewhere in top 10 students
All AP and Honors Courses
I wung the SATs last October, got 750M 660V 640W, retaking saturday
ECs: National Honors Society, National Latin Award every year, Community Service, Varsity Math Team (Currently #1 Junior in league), Destination Imagination (started it at our school), Work as a camp counselor in the summer
Looking into chemistry!
Sorry for the bizarre typing, but it's late!
Any ideas as to where we should look (that's realistic)?
We've been to:
BC (loved it)
Bowdoin (liked it)
Wesleyan (hated it)
Tufts (brutally mixed)
Some neat suggestions would be awesome!
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05-01-2008, 10:49 PM
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Some other suggestions in the BC/Bowdoin feel: Williams, Amherst, Middlebury, Hamilton, Colgate, Colby, Skidmore, Conn College, Kenyon (not NE, but similar personality).
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05-01-2008, 10:53 PM
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Sound like a good fit for BC, choose some extra schools to make your parents happy like the ones momrath posted.
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05-01-2008, 11:24 PM
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Holy Cross, also a little farther south -- Lehigh, Bucknell, Franklin and Marshall, Villanova, Lafayette, and Georgetown.
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05-02-2008, 03:33 AM
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A lot of people refer to Holy Cross as the Catholic version of Bowdoin or Williams. HC is the top rated Catholic LAC per USNWR.
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05-02-2008, 07:35 AM
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Sorry but Holy Cross can not be compared to Williams. It may be the top rated Catholic LAC but you can't realistically compare #33 to #1. We have friends at Holy Cross and a child at Williams and they surely know the difference. I have a grad degree from a Jesuit school so I am a fan but the only real similarity is that they are both colleges in the state of MA.
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05-02-2008, 09:09 AM
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and more: union, trinity, dartmouth
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05-02-2008, 09:21 AM
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i think collegbounder was implicitly distinguishing holy cross from BC by comparing it to LACs. i would agree that holy cross is the catholic version of those colleges. i don't think the point was that they were equal in prestige, but rather that, unlike BC, holy cross has an LAC feel.
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05-02-2008, 09:38 AM
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a lot of these are LACs, got any other universities?
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05-02-2008, 09:42 AM
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What state do you live it? Would you consider a quality state school, like UMass Amherst, Rutgers, etc?
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05-02-2008, 09:45 AM
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I lived in NH. As far as State Schools go, I think I'm set on UNH and UMD
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05-02-2008, 09:55 AM
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What about Penn State? It has a pretty good chem program.
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05-02-2008, 09:56 AM
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I will definitely look into it
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05-02-2008, 11:03 AM
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any other larger schools of recommendation?
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