Help me make a decision. Should I apply for Arts & Science or Arch school??

College Majors Architecture Majors
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<p>I will give you a quick info of myself.</p>

<p>International (Korean), lived in US with legal guardians for about 3 and half years.</p>

<p>10/88 in a Christian private school
3.88 UW 4.13 W GPA
ACT 29 (E32,M32,R26,S27), retaking December
SAT Korean 750
Math 2 760
US History 680</p>

<p>School didn’t have AP, only College credit courses. I took all the college credit courses.</p>

<p>3 years Varsity Soccer (9,10,11)
3 years Musical Theater (Lead 2 years) - invited to perform at Disney World from the stage director (10,11,12)
Student Gov Officer (10th) Class President (11th, 12th)
Chief Justice (second highest position) at TN Boys State (11)
Gov School for International Studies participant (11)
Tennessee Regional Honors Choir - Bass 1 (12th)
Tennessee Regional Math Contest - 11th in PreCal (11)
Leadership University Graduate (11th) - a year long county wide program teaching various information
Art - Second in drawing at school’s art exhibition. (11)</p>

<p>140 hours of volunteer in five different organizations. (10,11,12)</p>

<p>My problem is that I have taken art only one year…
But I am independently working on my artworks, and the drawing I received award on was independently done. My Art teacher will write a recommendation letter explaining that I have talents at art.</p>

<p>I have ALWAYS loved art, but I never really pursued it bc of time constraint, and I never considered it for my career before… Now I would like to go to architecture school.
But, I am still afraid since I haven’t taken much art course at school and haven’t really done extracurricular related to architecture or artsy sides. </p>

<p>And, Rice picks 25 students a year and Cornell picks about 100 students. I am pretty sure those numbers are similar at other schools also. </p>

<p>Do you think I should apply for Arts & Science and pick random major :frowning: or apply to architecture school with these stuffs? </p>

<p>I am applying to a bunch of schools… even ones without arch program
: UCB, UCLA, Cornell, Rice, Columbia, Tulane, USC, VTech, UMichigan, Miami, Brown, WashU, and so on.</p>

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<p>At least at Cornell I know you can apply to three schools at once, so maybe I would apply to arch as one, and then arts and sciences. Its a lot easier to change out of arch into arts and science then from arts and sciences into architecture.</p>

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<p>oh okay. thanks for reply. :)</p>

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<p>I think you’ll find that many strong high school students are not able to take as many art electives as they might like. My daughter was only able to fit 1 art class into her schedule and had to go to summer school to do so. None of her EC’s were in the Arts. She was accepted into some terrific schools for a B.S. Arch and is happy in a top MArch program right now. </p>

<p>Go ahead and apply to the Arch programs if that’s what you really want. You have a strong profile and should have some nice choices (you may want to add U of Cincinnati to your list). Best of luck to you.</p>

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<p>Thank you so much! That’s very encouraging to hear. I have never really known about U Cincinnati, but I will check it out. Thanks!</p>