I am currently a junior in high school (class of 2022) and am beginning my college search process. I am interested in studying international business/political science in mainly southern liberal arts colleges. I would prefer a smaller to mid-sized school (5-10k) as well. Does anyone have any suggestions on schools I should look at? Here are my stats:
27 ACT
1300 SAT
4.0 unweighted GPA
12 AP classes
National Honor Society
Tri-M Music Honor Society
300+ community service hours
Established a community food pantry
Volunteer at the local nursing home
4-year varsity track and cross country
Participated in multiple state-wide and county-wide honor bands and orchestras
An active member of 4 school clubs
Pool and ocean lifeguard
+more
I do not know of any LACs in the South or in any region of the US with 5,000 or more undergraduate students.
The largest National LAC may be Bucknell University in Pennsylvania with approximately 3,600 students. Next largest may be a tie among the University of Richmond, Colgate University & Wesleyan University at just about 3,000 full time undergradute students at each school.
Furman University in South Carolina has almost 2,700 full time undergrads.
Lafayette College in Pennsylvania has about 2,600 undergrads.
P.S. Wake Forest University (WFU) in North Carolina is a small National University with about 5,200 full time undergraduate students.
Georgetown University in Wash DC has about 7,000 undergraduate students. It is a National University–not an LAC–and has a significant number of graduate students.
Although not an LAC, you should check out the Croft Institute at the University of Mississippi.
While your 4.0 GPA is sufficient, your standardized test scores are too low for the Croft Institute at Ole Miss, but the program details may help give you a more refined objective.
P.S. Minimum ACT score of 28. SAT minimum might be 1310 although I have also encountered a statement about 1250 SAT score as a minimum.
