Please help me narrow down and select schools!

joonghoonkim
Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:52:41 +0000

Hello
I have 30 ACT 30E(Best32) 34M 27 R 27 S
4.21 WGPA, 3.9 GPA I think.
I go to a private school, and my gpa is upward trend since freshman year

International, not applying for FA
lived in US for about four years now

ECs
Varsity soccer 3 years (District almost every year)
Theater 3 years, lead 2 years (Invited to perform at Disney)
JV/V football 2 years
Vocal 2 years, Regional Choir 1 year
Boys State Chief Justice (2nd highest position)
Gov School for International Studies
Junior Rotarian
Leadership University grad (one year program, received scholarship)
150 hours community service
2nd place drawing in school

Essays will be pretty good I think.

Chicago (1st choice)
Georgetown (2nd choice)

Yale
Columbia
Dartmouth (I just have a feeling here)
Rice (uncertain… really hard to get in)
Wash STL
William and Mary (my guardian’s cousin went here. Safety and Match)
Macalester
University of Southern Cal (Very different than other schools I listed… Safety and match)
Brown (uncertain… need more info)

I need to take some schools off the list and find a safety school (I know this sounds so pretentious… sorry.)



I love friendly people, and I hope where I am going is friendly.
I cannot get along with rude ppl or jocks who think they are extremely smart.
I would prefer warm weather… but I guess human can adapt to any place.

I want intellectual environment. I like geeky but friendly ppl.
I don’t like very competitive environment. I prefer cooperative environment.
Not much interest in partying and having fun. More of a study type person.

Small class preferred.
Care about the university’s prestige (not crazy though)

Where would I fit in? :)