<p>Between now and when I am leaving to go to my grandparents house in NORWAY (which is in about 6 hours) I have to finish my applications</p>
<p>I have three more that I want to do and I am going to do them on the common app so I guess it has to be private</p>
<p>the trouble is I don’t know where to apply</p>
<p>Where do you think would be a good fit for me based on this-</p>
<p>3.7 GPA(all honors, gifted or AP level)
32 ACT
and I have good ECs (leadership, team captain, 2 sport athlete, treasurer in a club,service)
and I go to a competitive public high school</p>
<p>And I want to go up north because I am tired of living in Georgia because it is sooo HOT all the time!</p>
<p>And I am looking for schools that I have a reasonable shot at btw</p>
<p>And to whoever helps me on this-</p>
<p>I OWE YOU! big time!</p>
<p>and I really do value your opinion! for reals</p>
<p>Gee, is Georgia hot all the time? We now live in Alabama and it’s COLD right now (I’m used to Southern Calif). </p>
<p>Is money no object?</p>
<p>I’m guessing that they have to be Common Ap Schools…</p>
<p>It’s hard to know what to suggest because you haven’t said what “kind” of school you want or what you’ll major in (or if money is no issue)…so…we’ll just take some stabs</p>
<p>Boston U
Gonzaga
Grinnell
Kenyon
Loyola Maryland
Northeastern
St. Louis U</p>
<p>If you really have no clue where to go, you might be better off taking a gap year and working while learning more about yourself, the world, and what you want in your college education. Better to take a gap year than to basically pick a college out of a hat.</p>
<p>If you really have no clue where to go, you might be better off taking a gap year and working while learning more about yourself, the world, and what you want in your college education. Better to take a gap year than to basically pick a college out of a hat.</p>
<p>Possibly true…but actually there are kids just like this that just don’t know what they want to major in, so they don’t know what to do.</p>
<p>If a gap year isn’t for you…then apply to some bigger schools that have a wide variety of majors.</p>
<p>And…keep in mind…there are schools that you can apply to once you’re back home. Not all schools have Jan 1 deadlines. :)</p>
<p>Have you asked your parents about how much they are willing to pay? You need to pin them down on a yearly amount. On another thread, you’ve said you’re first gen college. Your parents may not realize that a private college would cost between $35-$50 k a year. </p>
<p>If you’re in Georgia, presumably you qualify for the Hope Scholarship, which would reduce your costs to schools in state.</p>
<p>Realize that if your parents are counting on financial aid to help, they’ll have to provide copies of their income tax. Colleges give the aid that colleges think you need, which typically requires families to pay more than what families want to pay. The aid package usually includes scholarships plus loans and work study.</p>
<p>Think about all of this and the implications, and also talk to your parents.</p>
<p>Realize, too, that if you go from Georgia up north to college, you’ll have to invest in heavy winter clothes. You’ll also have higher transportation costs than if you stay in state.</p>
<p>i will definitely think about these things
but the winter clothes are no problem because i lived in norway until two years ago and i havent grown since then</p>
<p>My husband was a German major and history minor at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan. It’s affiliated with the Christian Reformed church. Small classes. Small school. Liberal for a Christian school (which means its less liberal than are nonChristian schools). Solid liberal arts school particularly known for its philosophy dept. Cold weather. No Greek life. No football.</p>
<p>Would be a safety for you.</p>
<p>Other schools to consider: American, George Washington in D.C. </p>
<p>Boston College, Georgetown, Notre Dame – reach schools. They are more mid sized schools, however. Bowdoin might also be a school that you’d like. Check to see if German is taught there.</p>
<p>Since you like languages, consider Middlebury as a reach school, too. Oberlin, Macalester might be other schools that you’d enjoy. Check to make sure that you can study German there. They are excellent liberal arts schools and would be low reach schools.</p>
<p>A reach school is a school tends to be the best school that you’d have a chance of getting accepted to. This means your stats would be a bit on the low side for that school or the school has many more highly qualified applicants than it has spaces.</p>
<p>Macalester, Bowdoin and Oberlin are among the country’s top liberal arts colleges, and I think you have a shot at them. Your scores are within range, and your being first gen college from Georgia would be plusses. Not many Georgians are interested in going to colleges in the Midwest and isolated parts of the north (Bowdoin is in Maine). Most Georgians don’t like cold weather.</p>