Colleges for English/Writing

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<p>I’m a high school junior looking for a college/uni that has a strong english and writing department. Schools like Kenyon, Hamilton, and Dickinson. I want a school that is close to the Main Line, PA, at most 2 hours away from the Berwyn area. </p>

<p>SAT: 510 math/730 cr/800 w (10/12 essay), 2040 total
I’m going to pull up my math score as much as I can, hopefully to at least 600. </p>

<p>Cum GPA (weighted): 4.58
Cum GPA (unweighted): 3.9</p>

<p>GPA freshman year (weighted): 4.3
GPA sophomore year (weighted): about 4.66 (guessing based off my cum)
GPA this year (weighted): 4.8
So it’s been a steady up-climb but unfortunately I screwed up freshman year and didn’t do as well as I could have.</p>

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<p>Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore, and Haverford are all on the main line. Ursinus is very close by in Collegeville, about 10 miles north of KoP. TCNJ is in Trenton. Gettysburg is at the very edge of your 2 hour radius. St. John’s in Annapolis is a bit outside the radius.</p>

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<p>bump. Please I’d like some more suggestions. Or even if a school is a little farther away.</p>

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<p>Johns Hopkins. #2 creative writing department in the nation and a top 10 English department. And just 2 hours away. Hopkins is not just for medicine, biology and engineering! Check it out. <a href=“http://writingseminars.jhu.edu/[/url]”>http://writingseminars.jhu.edu/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p><a href=“http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/about/news/nytimes-article-dec07.pdf[/url]”>http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/about/news/nytimes-article-dec07.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>When you start talking about JHU and Penn, you’re talking about schools that are decidedly <em>un</em>like Kenyon, Hamilton, and Dickinson. I don’t know that there are any more schools like that in a 2 hour radius of say Radnor, PA, besides the ones I mentioned. There are a ton more schools in that radius, probably a bunch strong in English and writing, but they are not small liberal arts colleges with selective admissions. </p>

<p>So what’s more important: the radius from home or the type of institution?</p>

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<p>At Penn, the Kelly Writers House would be an option to make the school smaller. Read the article in the link I posted. It might be of interest to the OP.</p>

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<p>You might want to rethink the 2 hour radius unless it’s really important.</p>

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Franklin & Marshall certainly comes to mind for English. Susquehanna is highly regarded for communications and journalism, so I suspect writing would be strong there. </p>

<p>There are many other good LACs in the Pennsylvania area (Juniata, Gettysburg, Allegheny, Ursinus, Muhlenberg, etc.) that would be worth a look. Drew in NJ is also decent. </p>

<p>Assuming you’re in-state, either Pitt or Temple should be on your list as a safety/match. Both are quite good for English/writing/communications. </p>

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Agreed. Hopkins and especially Penn will offer a very different experience than Kenyon or Hamilton.</p>

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<p>Also, I am wondering about requirements. For science, I took ICPE in 9th grade, biology in 10th (no extra lab periods though), and this year I took chemistry 1 (has a lab). Next year I plan to take AP Environmental science instead of Physics, since my math won’t be high enough for honors physics. For math I took algebra 1, geometry/finite, now algebra 2 and next year Math analysis. Will I be at a disadvantage, even though I’m extremely skilled in reading and writing (730 critical reading, 800 writing on SAT)? I’m trying to bring my math score up to at least 600, maybe higher.</p>