White Female
Public School from Cleveland Ohio
4.2 Gpa (I had bad grades Freshman year and 1st semester Sophomore year but have gotten almost straight As since then)
15 AP/IB classes
IB Diploma Student
ACT Superscored: 34
Varsity Tennis Captain
9 extra-curriculars including President of environmental club, director of Operations for Student Group on Race Relations
I won’t apply for financial aid
Looking for liberal art schools with good public policy programs and relatively diverse student body
Though these schools would generally be appropriate for your ACT score, you may need to screen them for appropriate selectivity based on local guidance. All would be excellent for your academic interests:
Claremont McKenna: Strong in public policy and the supporting discipline of economics.
Amherst
Bates
Bowdoin: Strong in government.
Hamilton: Offers a Public Policy major and D.C. term. Excellent for economics.
Vassar: Socio-economically diverse.
Swarthmore: Generally brilliant students.
Macalester: Internationally diverse student body.
Kenyon: Offers a Public Policy concentration.
Dickinson
Bryn Mawr
Mt. Holyoke: Offers a Law, Public Policy and Human Rights track.
Wow, thank you so much! I only know like half the schools on this list well so I will definitely research all the others. Great advice!
@merc81 list is right on target. I’d add William and Mary, which has made a very real commitment to increasing diversity in recent years. Grads include Robert Gates (Secretary of Defense/CIA Director), James Comey, Jon Stewart, Jen Psaki, Serge Kovaleski (NYT reporter), and Michelle Wolf (comedian at recent Washington Correspondents’ Dinner) are all alums.
If you’d consider all-female colleges, I’d add Wellesley, which has a stunning campus in a suburban town near Boston. We know a recent grad who majored in your area of interest (and now is going to a tip-top law school). She was able to take classes at MIT and got to know a very, very senior female diplomat through one of the school’s programs.
Just to add, Amherst and Mt. Holyoke are members of the Five College Consortium (with Smith, Hampshire, and U Mass Amherst), and students can take some classes and take advantage of other opportunities at the other schools, which are located in the same general area of Western Mass (just off I-90, so not a bad drive, we"ve done it 2-3 times).
Amherst is extremely strong academically and career-wise, and it is the most racially and economically diverse LAC. The Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought major is renowned.
thank you so much!