<p>I am a junior with a GPA of 3.57 and a lot of community service hours. I scored a 1650 on the PSAT but that will go up after I study.
I am looking for a college that will fit me that hopefully is a name recognized university with colder weather (like snow) with a bunch of school spirit and good athletics maybe located on the east coast. I want to go pre-med. Two colleges I really like are Villanova and Clemson but does anyone have ideas of other colleges that I might like and should research? Please reply!</p>
<p>Notre Dame and Dayton are two schools that, while not exactly East Coast, have snow, school spirit, great community service programs, and medical school acceptance rates of 75%. Notre Dame has a better athletic department but Dayton is awesome as well.</p>
<p>thanks! I looked at Dayton and it seems like a good fit and so would Notre Dame though it is quite a stretch</p>
<p>does anyone else have any ideas?</p>
<p>Lauren, can you give us more information. Are you taking any AP classes/exams? What is your class rank? Is your GPA weighed or unweighed? Does your school place many of its students into universities?</p>
<p>For now, I will start with a few schools that meet your criteria:</p>
<p>Indiana University-Bloomington
Miami University (Ohio)
University of Colorado-Boulder
University of Connecticut
University of Dayton
Villanova University</p>
<p>Depending on how you do on your SAT, you can add more selective universities on your list. Schools like Boston College, Colorado College, Michigan, Notre Dame, and Wisconsin.</p>
<p>Since you seem to prefer mid-sized, spirited universities, on the east coast…</p>
<p>Look at:
-Syracuse
-Wake Forest
-Penn State
-James Madison</p>
<p>Also, maybe Lehigh. They want more females, so you should be able to get in.</p>
<p>Alexandre-
I go to a college prep school in Orange Country and almost everyone goes onto a university. My school does not rank us. I recieved a 3 on the World History AP exam sophomore year and I will be taking the AP Psychology exam this year. The 3.57 GPA overall is weighted. I am currently researching all of your suggestions and they seem awesome, I had thought of Boulder before and forgotten!
World Changer-
Thank you very much for the suggestions and I will look into those!</p>
<p>Does anyone else have any ideas?</p>
<p>SUNY Binghamton.</p>
<p>uh, clemson doesn’t really have cold weather…they get snow once or twice a year usually, and a lot of the time the “snow” is actually ice</p>
<p>Thank you everyone these suggestions are awesome. And auraeight- I have never visited Clemson before so thank you for the info on the weather! I haven’t heard that viewpoint anywhere else</p>
<p>Small collegeswith goodathletics and school spirit.
Bucknell University
College of the Holy Cross
Denison University
Fairfield University
Franklin and Marshall College
Gettysburg College
Gustavus Adolfus College
Lafayette College
Lawrence University
Lehigh University
Ohio Wesleyan University</p>
<p>Larger schools with major Division I programs
Indiana University-Bloomington
Miami University (Ohio)
Michigan State University
Ohio State University
Pennsylvania State University-University Park
Syracuse University
University of Colorado-Boulder
University of Connecticut
University of Dayton
University of Denver
University of Kansas
University of Kentucky
University of Maine
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
University of New Hampshire
University of Vermont
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Villanova University</p>
<p>Wow thank you for all the ideas! I had never thought of Ohio State before!</p>
<p>James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA</p>