No Idea Where To Apply??? Please Help!

yinuos
Fri, 22 Apr 2016 20:50:40 +0000

@merc81 No need to get nitpicky. College rankings don’t matter - as in rankings by USNews, Washington Monthly etc. are all very subjective and are prone to poor methodologies. When I say “higher-ranked colleges”, I mean ones that will provide far more opportunity for a student interested in political science than others, like the list of reaches that I provided. For instance (barring financial circumstances), no one is ever going to turn down Harvard to attend Cornell, and no one is going to turn down Brown to attend FSU.

I’m not making it difficult to offer input of value to the OP… in fact, a lot of input of value has already been offered. If anything, I might be making it difficult for a “Hamilton” grad/parent to mislead a student into applying somewhere that will offer far more opportunities at around the same level of selectivity. If you look at this thread a lot of people have been pushing and suggesting their own schools and alma maters to the OP when in reality they aren’t offering anything of value.

Finally, anyone who takes the time and effort to study and improve their test scores WILL be able to improve them. I don’t know how many times the OP has taken the ACT/SAT, but if she’s only taken them once then taking them a second time will offer a considerable boost to her application.

@apple23 lol