Humor Me

College Search & Lists
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<p>I’m interested to see how much one can really tell about me based on my numbers. I will post my data and my interests, and I want you to come up with a list of colleges that you think will be appropriate for me. If your list of considerations for me looks anything like mine, I’ll be impressed.</p>

<p>White, female, elite suburban high school
SAT: 700 CR, 720 M, 650 W
SAT II: 690 Bio, 710 Chem, 690 Math IIC
ACT: 30
AP: Only one taken so far: US History, 5
GPA: 3.82 uw
school doesn’t rank, but probably top 15-20%</p>

<p>Senior year courses:
AP BC Calculus (First Semester grade: A-)
AP English (First Semester grade: A)
AP Spanish (First Semester grade: A-)
AP US Government (First Semester grade: A)
AP Physics (First Semester grade: B)</p>

<p>Major: English</p>

<p>EC’s:
Editor-in-chief of high school newspaper (involved for all of high school as writer, assisstant editor, etc)
Editor of literary magazine for one year
Forum Discussion Leader
Member of Math Team
Writing Seminars at local college
write occasionally for local paper</p>

<p>Summer Activities:
Hospital Volunteer
Creative writing program at University of Iowa
worked for local newspaper</p>

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<p>A giraffe walks into a bar. The bartender says, “Why the long face?”.</p>

<p>Har har.</p>

<p>You have been humored.</p>

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<p>I can’t tell what size you want but I’ll say a few schools in each region
West: USC, Rice and maybe some of the Claremont Colleges
South: Emory, Vanderbilt, Tulane
Midwest: Wash U, Northwestern, UMich
East: Georgetown, Probably a couple ivies, BC, BU or some of the LAC Middlebury, Amherst, Williams</p>

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<p>Just because I couldn’t help but to look at your past posts…</p>

<p>University of Chicago!</p>