<p>ANY suggestions of matches,safeties,etc will be welcome, as an intl, i am really lost, thanks!!!</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT I around 2100
II: math IIc 800, lit. no idea, Chinese 800, Physics 750
Rank: 3/25
GPA: school doesn’t rank
IB full diploma predicted grade: 40+</p>
<p>ECs: MUN (best delegate national conference), swimming, volunteer work, etc.</p>
<p>Citizen of: Canada, Hong Kong
Currently in: Shanghai, China
School: private-local(not really private some gov funding)</p>
<p>disadv: teacher recs, they aren’t fluent in English
other factors: seeking aid, wants to do pre-law or pyschology</p>
<p>THANKS again!!</p>
<p>Your grades and scores are terrific. Check out the book, “The Hidden Ivies,” by Howard Greene. It lists virtually all of the top colleges and universities that one might tend to overlook when shooting for the “big name” schools. Here’s a link: <a href=“http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060953624/qid=1147442271/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-6128259-9382365?s=books&v=glance&n=283155[/url]”>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060953624/qid=1147442271/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-6128259-9382365?s=books&v=glance&n=283155</a></p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Psych or Law means one thing – being capable of reading or writing. The best places for honing those skills would be at LAC’s. The best LAC’s are basically listed in this website. The book presented to you by the first response is good. I would also guide you to read Loren Pope’s book “Colleges that Change People’s Lives” which will lead you to the second tier LAC’s – some of which are in the prime list here and most of which are not. </p>
<p>One writer eloquently emphasized LAC’s or the small schools when he wrote.</p>
<p>“If your interest is not so much in your prospects immediately after college, but rather in your career after finishing graduate school or medical or law school, then there is even less reason to select a big-name undergraduate institution, as such. The quality and renown of your postgraduate training will undoubtedly have a very real influence on your career prospects-but at that point no one will care where you went to college before you received your M.B.A. from Wharton, your Ph.D. from Stanford, or your M.D. from Johns Hopkins. Perhaps you are concerned about getting into such postgraduate programs and think that a big-name college will help your chances there. But the people who run the leading graduate and professional institutions are unlikely to be dazzled by big names. They know from long personal experience which colleges students actually perform well, regardless of whether or not those colleges are known to the general public. It was the deans of law schools who ranked Davidson College ahead of most Ivy League schools for the calibre of its students performances in law school. It was the deans of engineering schools who ranked the students from Rose-Hulman Institute ahead of those from Princeton.”</p>
<p>Thomas Sowell in his book “Choosing the Right College”</p>