<p>7 AP Courses total, most other courses were honors</p>
<p>I have really good EC’s too so that isnt an issue </p>
<p>1950 SAT score</p>
<p>Specifics…</p>
<p>I really want a college that has
A large population of students that live on campus (my high school has kids commuting from hours away…i hate it)
An urban setting with a campus/a clustered arrangement of buildings to give a campus feel
A somewhat liberal leaning student body, or at least a politically involved one
A lot of clubs and activities
An easy core curriculum/complete lack of general education requirements
A decent reputation, i dont need top 20 in rankings or anything, but not Southern Arkansas Tech (no offense to anyone who goes there if it even exists)
Good academics
Grade inflation or a lack of any grade deflation since i want to go to graduate school
An intellectual atmosphere, with very little emphasis on greek life and partying/drug use</p>
<p>I dont really care about what the size of the school is, i can easily deal with being a number but i would also enjoy a good community feel, being able to walk through campus and see people you know is what i currently have at my school and its great.</p>
<p>What can your family afford? Posters can jump in with suggestions costing over 50k per year, but if your family cannot swing it financially, that is pointless. </p>
<p>Some urban schools do not have much of a campus.
Many college students do party, there is no avoiding that, unless you go to a military or Christian college, or a school like Brigham Young University. </p>
<p>You might have to change some of your requirements on your list, there is no “utopia”.</p>
<p>What can your family pay? If you don’t know, ask. That will be most likely determine where you should apply.</p>
<p>Most schools don’t give great financial aid and your scores aren’t high enough for many of the schools that do give awesome aid.</p>
<p>However, if your parents will pay $55k+ per year, then there are some places that might fit. </p>
<p>But, as mentioned above, there may not be a school that meets every criteria…such as the “no Gen Ed” or partying issue. There is partying going on at all schools - except those mentioned. However, even at the so-called party schools, there will be a large group of kids who don’t indulge. My kids went/go to a so-called party school, but they are/were in very serious majors…so their classmates/friends didn’t party much…they party some, but not crazy like.</p>
<p>By the way…with 7 APs…you may have all/most of the Gen Ed req’ts already complete. My kids each came in with enough AP Credit to cover all GE req’ts - except one. No big deal to take one Gen Ed class.</p>
<p>My family has saved up a lot of money to go to college and are willing to pay 50k per year for college, I’ve asked them and theyve always said cost shouldnt be an issue.</p>
<p>Also, im in New York, and will apply to Binghamton, but its not really for me. (It is a great school though and no offense to anyone who wants to go there)</p>
<p>And i dont need a college where theres no partying at all, just not a party school.</p>
<p>Thanks for the University of Rochester suggestion! It seems like a really really good fit. Would you suggest i applied ED with my stats to help my chances?</p>
<p>“Some urban schools do not have much of a campus”</p>
<p>Slivka, you interpret that as me saying that there are no urban schools with a campus?
Good luck at SU, don’t spend all your time in the bars like I did! ;)</p>
<p>I don’t know about ED, but funny you should ask, as it turns out I asked a Rochester admission rep that exact question at a college fair event - but I really did not get a straight answer. ED is really not an option for my D, because we need significant FA, so she will apply RD.</p>
<p>What I can say for certain is that Rochester is a school that really, really wants to be loved. I’d make sure I visited the campus at least once and interviewed.</p>