I am very skewed towards the Humanities and am not particularly good at math. I got a perfect score on my ACT (32 C) for English/Writing and a 34 in Reading; however, I only got a 28 in math. I’m good at science and do fine in AP courses but do not excel. I have a number of EC activities that relate to my interest in writing (started a satirical magazine for ex.) and would get a letter of rec from a very close English teacher. I am also heavily involved w/ theatre and improvisation.
That being said, would schools what look past my deficiencies in math for my love of the humanities? What schools are well renowned for their English programs, particularly creative writing and screenplay?
Kenyon, Hamilton. Kenyon has more of a humanities focus between the two. Hamilton has an open curriculum that may suit you.
When you research individual colleges, you can look for a differential between verbal and quantitative scores among the students. This will provide a partial answer to your question.
Now, you may not like math enough to want to attend a college with heavy math general education requirements like MIT, but it does not seem like the typical math general education requirements at most colleges should be an issue for you. If that is a concern, you may want to look at each college’s general education requirements.
Gettysburg also is very strong in writing and actually has a minor in Writing. It is known for its summer writing programs as well, Writing Camp. Great school, However, any school you go to that normally accepts students with a 32 ACT is going to have a great English department. You can always add more writing to any curriculum with independent study.
Reed has a reputation for accepting “tilted” students, and you certainly would count. But you should consider it mostly if you want to study literature, not really creative writing and screenplay. We offer 10 courses every year in creative writing, but several of them have to do with poetry writing, and nothing to do with screenwriting whatsoever. The theater department does offer some playwriting classes sometimes though.
Amherst, Princeton and Yale - but you probably would need to get higher test scores for any of them
Hamilton and Kenyon are very good LACs for English
University of Iowa is tops for creative writing
Agree with all of the above (Amherst has a particularly fine English department, for example) except for Iowa. Their undergraduate writing program would be good, but not the equivalent to their graduate program. For truly top undergraduate creative writing programs, some of the mentioned LACs, as well as other universities, would be stronger.