<p>@LeeMonet the fly-in programs are sponsored by the schools but QB helps you select and apply in August (at least that’s what they say :-)).</p>
<p>This was the list for 2013, looks like it’s been updated for 2014:</p>
<p><a href=“http://getmetocollege.org/hs/what-colleges-look-for/fall-2013-free-diversity-college-visits”>http://getmetocollege.org/hs/what-colleges-look-for/fall-2013-free-diversity-college-visits</a></p>
<p>@jkeil911 Cognitive Science. I don’t know if theys have it or if it counts as a science. Thats the only science Id be interested in.</p>
<p>Have any of you heard of the 3-2 programs?</p>
<p>Most posters here have heard of 3-2 programs. There are a couple of negatives to the idea - you have to go to college for an additional year (and the additional cost) and many students who start out with the intent of finishing a 3-2 do not because they don’t want to leave their friends of 3 years to attend a different school.</p>
<p>I could see that being a problem. It sounds good on paper though.</p>
<p>You’re in luck, OP. Cogsci is called Neuroscience at CMC, AND it fulfills the double, interdisciplinary major all by itself. No need to also major in Italian :+) Check it out. It might be something you’re interested in.</p>
<p>I want a magic college wand…better yet a magic future wand that will get me exactly where I need to go. </p>
<p>@jkeil911 I understand that the career path for computer and cognitive science majors is Artificial Intelligence. I wasn’t really interested in that. Though I’m starting to wonder…</p>
<p>I think you are mistaken about that, OP. If you put computers and cogsci together you can have a career in just computers, just cogsci, just AI, computers and cogsci with or without AI, any other number of fields related to one of these topics, or become a diplomat or a professor of African studies or the owner of a bike shop. An undergraduate major can have nothing at all to do with the path your career, if you have one, takes. Or you can have two or more careers.</p>
<p>I’d like to email some of these schools that I’m most interested in and start a conversation, but I’m not sure what to say.</p>
<p>Ask them to send you some info about the school. What you read in there may bring up some questions specific to the school which show you are interested. And for those places where the mailer doesn’t show anything interesting, just drop it.</p>
<p>They have an automatic form for that. I’d think that’d be annoying to specifically email someone to ask for something clearly on the website. </p>
<p>Once you get the info and digest it email some questions </p>
<p>My slightly different advice (I think it’s different) is to contact a school after you’ve done your homework and found an interest in a school. </p>
<p>Online request-for-info forms are going to ask you for info about yourself. If you release that information to a non-school website, you’re going to be a very popular person with admissions offices you’ve never heard of. I’m a little surprised you’re not already since you’ve taken the SAT and done well and you’ve googled and you’ve contacted CC. (Perhaps I’m surprised because I don’t know what AO’s schedules are.) Enjoy the attention either way.</p>
<p>@jkeil911 I have a large bag full of the letters, inbox full of email, and a few phone calls. They all seem to be the same thing. Never from a real person and I don’t pay them much attention.The first few were flattering for me, and my family certainly enjoys seeing prestigious colleges in the mail. </p>
<p>Are you becoming grade 12 this summer? I’m going to SAAST this summer too.</p>
<p>I am 
Maybe we will meet. Its coming up soon!</p>
<p>ACT update
32 English
31 Math
35 reading
27 Science</p>
<p>Composite 31</p>
<p>okay, so to remind everyone, the ACT increased in this second taking from 29 to 31, but the math score didn’t move. In concert with the first and probably last sitting of the SAT (2030, 640M), we and the AOs have a pretty solid reason to be concerned about the OP’s math aptitude. </p>
<p>Step 1: Figure out what state you live in.
Step 2: Pick local flagship state school.</p>
<p>@informative My state was discussed about 3 posts down from the first post along with my state school through out the thread…</p>