Junior perfecting her prospective list while attempting a witty title...help?

tako
Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:45:13 +0000

Hi :)

I’m currently a high school junior out to make my list before summer so that I can spend summer in peace (hopefully TASPing - cross my fingers and knock on wood!) before major procrastination and all-nighters the day before apps are due :P

I’m looking to major in English (and possibly Economics). I’m not TOO sure about what I want to be, but I’m thinking a secondary school English teacher So Education might be in the picture as well. Journalism is also a pretty big prospect, but I think I might save that for grad school, because I don’t really want to go to a big school for undergrad, and I heard that going into journo definitely doesn’t require a degree in it :P

So far my list is comprised of:

University of Chicago (EA)
Swarthmore
St. Johns (I think Great Books sounds fascinating and pursuable, not sure if I want to do it, but hey, the application’s free :D)

And my “err, maybe” list includes:
Dartmouth
Davidson (I don’t know why, it just seems cool…haha)
McGill (I’m a Canadian…yes, I would be an international applicant :/)
WashU (my sister’s going there for med school, and it sounds cool too)
Carnegie Mellon (Sounds cool, too? :P)

And I might apply to one journalism school, just in case I change my mind. Probably Syracuse, just because their school colour is orange :P

Yeah, can anybody make any recommendations? Safeties? Matches? More reaches? Thanks And tell me if my “er, maybe” list is terribly off, because I may simply be biased towards certain names…(Carnegie Mellon and WashU and Davidson all do sound awfully fascinating, after all. But I am somewhat clueless about how much of a “fit” they’d be for me)

What I’m looking for:

a school with an “intellectual” environment (LAC? But doesn’t have to be…as long as it fills requirement number 2 :P)

small undergrad population (<5000, 1-2 thousand = :D)

(preferable) offers major merit scholarship money (a full ride = MY DREAM even though I expect it’ll never come true, not with my stats :()

I’m not too picky about surburban/urban/rural, all seem an awfully large adventure to me :D

Thanks, and hearts to you :)