Frustrated with college search! PLEASE HELP

nvman1
Mon, 01 May 2006 21:20:53 +0000

thank you all so much

stats-wise im about a B+ avg student (not sure what that translates to for my GPA) at a VERY competitive and rigorous private school in DC (Georgetown Day, just in case you were wondering). by the end of senior year i will have taken 1 honors course, and 3 APs. I willl have ran four years of varsity indoor track, and played 3 years of varsity lacrosse. I’m very involved with community service, especially with kids. Every monday nights i tutor kids from DC public schools, and last summer and this coming summer im volunteering at a charter school. Also im going to new orleans to help clean up the mess there.
Um…what else…I’m bi-racial (peruvian/filipino)…im a guy…yeah…
OH! SATs i got W620 M640 V660 not very good, i’ll be taking those again in october, and SATIIs in June

Drew is one im definitely going to have to see again.
NEU im looking at when i go to Boston, same with BC.
Fordham im checking out too, though i hear they have some wierd visiting rules (like BU)
Rochester im checking out when i go there
Villanova im afraid is too religious for me, im cool with jesuit colleges that aren’t oppressive about their catholic roots. Is BC overly religious?
Holy Cross might be a little too WASPy for me, or just straight homogenous
Union might be a little too Colgateish for me, which im not too excited about
Lafayette, Ursinus, and Lehigh ill have to check (how is the party scene at Lehigh, im not a party animal though i partake in such activites once in awhile
William and Mary i hear is very tough academically
Pittsburgh sounded kinda boring when i read about it, but i’ll check it out.

also, i know this goes against me wanting to be on the east coast, but what about Macalester? my college counselor just nominated me for their multicultural visiting program. i fill out a form, write a short essay, and they pay for a weekend visit there. pretty sweet huh? what do you guys know about macalester?