Junior--School Reccomendations

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<p>ok, so I posted this on the Chances forum and got more than 150 views and exactly 1 response, so I figured I might as well try it out over here</p>

<p>Gender: Female
Ethnicity: South Asian
State: NY
Grade: Junior</p>

<p>Prospective Major: probably Sociology/History, maybe a minor in Art, and most likely Law School later
Courseload: Most Rigorous
GPA: UW-something like 3.8/W-about 4.3
Rank: top decile, they don’t give out more but I’m pretty sure I’m within the top 5%
PSAT: 221 (took the March SAT, waiting on results)
SAT II: 720 U.S. History, taking Math II this year</p>

<p>Academic Courses:</p>

<p>8th Grade (shows on transcript): English 9Honors (A), Earth Science 9Honors (A-), Math 9Honors (A), French 9Honors (A), World History 1Honors (A+)</p>

<p>9th Grade: English 10Honors (A-), Biology 10Honors (A-), Math 10Honors (A), French 10Honors (A), AP World History (A+)</p>

<p>10th Grade: English 11Honors (A-), Chemistry 11Honors (B+), Math 11Honors (B+), French 11Honors (A), APUSH (A+)</p>

<p>11th Grade (Predicted): AP Language and Comp (A), AP Physics B (A-), Math 12Honors (A), AP Statistics (A-), College French Honors (A), AP Macro/MicroEcon (A-)</p>

<p>12th Grade Courses: AP Literature and Comp, AP European History, AP Art History, AP Calc AB, AP Government, College Sociology Honors, other electives</p>

<p>Total: 5 math courses, 4 science courses, 5 english courses, 4 foreign language courses, 6.5 history courses/all Honors or AP</p>

<p>Awards: Honor Roll, Mu Alpha Theta, National Honor Society, English Honor Society, Social Studies Honor Society, random essay contests, awards related to ECs</p>

<p>Main ECs:

  1. National History Day (1st place 3 times at Regionals, 1st place 1 time at States, 3rd place twice at States, 1 time National Finalist–also competing this year with an addistion 1st Place Regional win so far)
  2. Viking Voice: School Newspaper: Editor in Chief, Features columnist
  3. Arcadia: School Literary Magazine: Layout Editor, have been published
  4. Art Classes: 4 hours a week after school (won’t fit into my school schedule), have been featured in local gallery exhibitions/art shows
  5. Volunteer: local Historical Society: about 75 hours total
  6. Volunteer: local Art Museum: about 25 hours total
  7. Work: Page at the local library: about 6 hours a week
  8. Mock Trial: Play the role of a lawyer, 3rd Place in the District</p>

<p>Intersting factor: I am very interested in fashion design as a hobby. I take courses at FIT and make some of my own clothes and bags. </p>

<p>In colleges I am looking for academically challenging programs with active social scenes. Preferably schools in or at least somewhat close to a big city or at least some type of city (defnitely not rural). Would rather not stay in NY–would like northeast/midatlantic/cali or anything in/near a large city. Probably medium to large universities. Study abroad should be available because I definitely want to study int he UK at some point.</p>

<p>Some reach schools I think I like a lot are Brown (especially since you can coregister at RISD), Yale, and UPenn. I would like reccomendations for schools similar to these and/or with the other qualities I mentioned that would be match/safety schools for me, because the schoools I mentioned before are kind of unrealistic, haha</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>If you like the residential college system at Yale, Rice would probably be another good option for you. These were my two favorite colleges when I was applying, and I love Rice now that I’m a student. Houston is a very large, cosmopolitan city, while Rice is a medium-sized university (~3,000 undergrads, with that number increasing to be closer to 4,000 over the next few years) with a number of study abroad opportunities. I’m not sure about the fashion design as a hobby, though; it’s not really my area of interest.</p>

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<p>Other schools to possibly consider would be Syracuse and Carnegie Mellon.</p>

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<p>thanks
anyone else?</p>

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<p>Intellectual.
Close to a city.
Northeast / East / CA.</p>

<p>With that criteria in mind, I’d recommend the Claremont Consortium. It’s a collection of five LACs in California that share resources and facilities (allowing for a large population, divided up into individual colleges). The consortium is located in the Riverside area, which is one of the fastest growing metros in the country, and it’s only a short drive from LA. Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, Scripps, and Pomona could all be good fits. </p>

<p>Then Georgetown, maybe?</p>

<p>On the southern tier of the east coast, Emory comes to mind. The school is quite intellectual, and Atlanta has a lot going on, so you might like it.</p>

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<p>Also, for a safety, you could try TCNJ. It’s out of state, but will still be relatively inexpensive for you (and not too far from family). I’ve heard nothing but good things about it.</p>

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<p>world changer
I’m interested in Pomona, actually. The only thing is that CA is a bit questionable for me, I don’t think the parentals would really appreciate my applying to schools there too much
I like Georgetown as a school, but I’m not too sure about it because even though I’d love to be in a city, I would also like to have that campus feel (maybe I’m asking for too much, haha). That’s why I’m not really drawn to NYU…its really just a bunch of buildings centrally located, but I don’t think you would have the same kind of atmosphere. I’m more drawn to something like UPenn where there is an actual campus enclosed within a city. </p>

<p>I’ll look into Emory, I haven’t yet. I’m kind of iffy about going to the South. I do want to meet people from all over, but I’m kind of scared about there being a huge cultural change. The whole “southern hospitality” thing doesn’t seem that appealing to me–I like the feel of NYC, but I can’t really make assumptions without visiting schools there. Its one of the reasons I can’t make my mind up about Rice. The school sounds great, but…Texas? Then again, these schools are in urban areas, so I don’t know if the change would be that drastic.
any opinions?</p>

<p>and I’m going to look into TCNJ, but NJ just seems unappealing to me for some reason. idk. haha</p>

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<p>What about some of the Boston area schools like BC, BU, and Wellesley</p>

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<p>Was about to say BC. Maybe Columbia?</p>

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<p>

Georgetown does have a campus. GWU is the really urban one.</p>

<p>As for Emory - it actually has more of a liberal, northern vibe.</p>

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<p>

The only one of those that strikes me as actually being intellectual is Wellesley, but it may be too small.</p>

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<p>For BC and Georgetown…these are religiously associated schools. I’m "Hindu"and definitely not religious, but wouldn’t most kids who go to these schools be very religious? What is your opinion of going to a religiously associated school that you don’t identify with?</p>

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<p>question: where would honors programs at schools like Michigan State, UNC:Chapel Hill, Penn State, and UVA fit for me? (reach, match safety?</p>

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<p>Being out of state, I’d say that Michigan State is the only likely possibility. </p>

<p>However, you probably wouldn’t like UVA or PSU anyway, as they very much have small town vibes.</p>

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BC has always struck me as being heavily Catholic. Probably partially due to the fact that Boston is one of the most Catholic cities in the country.</p>

<p>Georgetown has a religious affiliation, but it’s not terribly strong, and the school as a whole is pretty religiously diverse. I think you’d be okay there.</p>