<p>I’m a WM NJ public hs junior
Large, competitive high school that doesn’t report class rank</p>
<p>3.6 gpa uw/ 4.1 weighted</p>
<p>Expecting excellent SAT’s…I’ve always been a good standardized test taker. Anything less than 2200 would be disappointing. SAT II’s should be good.</p>
<p>EC’s are VERY incomplete:
-holding down a job for 4 yrs as a caddie…I’m very good at it and could likely get excellent reccomendations from it
-some community service (not much more than 20 hrs so far)
-golf team (will be on it for 3 yrs by graduation)- one of the best teams in state, personally not good enough to play Division I
-school newspaper</p>
<p>Looking to major in Economics w/ minor in Polit. Science or Journalism</p>
<p>So…
ANY reccomendations in terms of bolsering my weak EC’s? I’m looking to intern and maybe to get some of my writing published.
Any schools you could add to my target list below?
(Carnegie Mellon, American, GW, Princeton, Penn, Colby, UMich, Rochester, Johns Hopkins, U of Chicago, Cornell, Rutgers, N’Western)</p>
<p>One thing: I’m not looking for a party school. That atmosphere makes me uncomfortable.</p>
<p>Golf = Williams! Hamilton too I think. Both of these fit with your list in ambience, personality.
Good economics and political science. No journalism, per se, but writing skills are emphasized.</p>
<p>What do you write? Some schools, especially smaller ones, encourage applicants to submit examples of their writing, either creative or expository.</p>
<p>Golf: Colgate has a great course, Cornell has RTJ’s first design, Wms is great thru #4 and good 5-18, Hamilton I think only has 9 holes. Dartmouth (Hanover CC) is decent. My Holyoke if your female, but not many women hit 2 irons (not many guys either). Avoid American, UMich OOS. If you want to golf your list is limited How about Davidson, as good as any NE LAC (though they only have like a 4 hole course, but you can golf yr around)?</p>
<p>Maybe because my name is 2-Iron I gave the wrong impression.</p>
<p>Golf is my hobby, but writing and politics are my future. It would be nice to be able to golf every now and then during college, but I was more looking in terms of academics.</p>
<p>Here’s a strong school for politics that you might want to consider: Holy Cross, one of top Liberal Arts colleges in USA. At present five HC alums are members of congress-- 4 US representatives and Sen Bob Casey of PA. That’s pretty impressive for a smaller college–essentially 1% of US Congress is HC alums.</p>
<p>What good is a great Northeastern course if it’s under six inches of snow? How about these top ranked Southern LACs: W & L, Richmond, Sewanee & Furman?</p>