Improved Junior Looking for Colleges!

AllyJay
Sat, 14 Apr 2012 22:16:29 +0000

I’m stuck on college choices!
I don’t know which colleges I should apply to since my record is a little off instead of being consistent.

My freshman year was rough so my GPA is a 3.31 when I’d have a 3.7-3.8 if I hadn’t slacked off for that 1 year. I’ve taken a ton of honors classes and am taking 3 APs next year.

I’ve been playing softball since my freshman year and won the “Hard Worker” award freshman year and the “Most Improved Player” award sophomore year. I’ve been in film club since freshman year as well and was VP last year and am president this year. I’m also in Amnesty International and French Honor Society. I’ve also been nominated to win the Princeton Alumni Association of Maryland Princeton Book Award.

My SAT scores are CR=630 M=470 W=600. I’m retaking them in May.

As far as college goes I want a college that’s 27K max. I’ll look at higher priced schools if it ends up costing around 20K to 23K when I look at Net Price. I’m looking at a student body of above 5,000. I want to be able to do things on and off campus and maybe have a club or inter-mural softball team. It would be nice if my campus was nice to look at as well and I’d most likely be staying on campus so it’d be good to have decent dorm rooms.

I live in MD and halfway through college I might move to NC so I’d like to stay on the east coast below Mass. as far as travel costs go but I’ll go farther if the school’s cheaper. I’m also black and my great-grandmother is Venezuelan which I think allows me to say I’m hispanic/latino (?)

How much do colleges look at improvement?

Thanks for your help in advance and for reading this long thing!