Please help me finalize my college list!

2022jl
Thu, 24 Jun 2021 01:13:44 +0000

Hi everyone! I am a rising Senior and am having trouble finalizing my college list. Any advice would be amazing. If any of you can give me some input on which schools to either add or remove that would be great, thank you!

Demographics

US citizen

CA (Bay Area)

public HS

Gender/Race/Ethnicity: female hispanic/latina

Intended Major(s) political science / public policy (I am planning on going to grad school for either law or public policy)

GPA, Rank, and Test Scores

Unweighted HS GPA: 3.86

Weighted HS GPA: 4.32

UC GPA: UW - 4.0, W - 4.55

Coursework

freshman: honors bio, honors geometry

sophomore: honors English, honors spanish III, AP European History

junior : AP Spanish, AP Lang, APUSH

senior (intended): AP Lit, AP Gov, AP Econ

Extracurriculars

Model UN (logistics officer)

Girls for Politics (Organization Founder, Executive Director, & Club President)

Youth Activism Society (National Project Director & Member)

My city’s philanthropy program (Leadership Board Member)

Teen Tutoring Club (Vice President & Tutor)

Multiple congressional/democratic organization internships

Operation Four Magazine (Head of Activism, project manager, & politics writer)

National Honors Society

Latino Student Union

Cost Constraints / Budget
My EFC is around 45k which my mom said she would be able to afford. My father has never been apart of my life & lives in Guatemala so my mother will be the only one paying for my undergrad.

Schools
(?) = still considering

Safety (certain admission and affordability)

Santa Barbara Community College

San Francisco State University

Likely (would be possible, but very unlikely or surprising, for it not to admit or be affordable)

UC Riverside

The New School

UC Santa Cruz

Match

UC Davis

The George Washington University

Reed College

Occidental College

Bryn Mawr (?)

Scripps (?)

San Diego State University

American University

UC Santa Barbara

UC San Diego

Reach

UCLA

UC Berkeley

Northeastern University (?)

NYU

Barnard College

UPenn (?)

Pomona (?)

Swarthmore (?)

Yale (?)

School Wants

I would prefer a school that is in a city or at least very close to an urban area. I also think I want a small school but that is subject to change. I would also like a school that is either on the west or east coast.