Starting Late on a Portfolio + College Suggestions?

@momrath @Bkred15 Thank you both very much :slight_smile:

Momrath,
I do have another long-time EC. I’ve played soccer since third grade. As another, non-continuous EC, I’ve been to Korea on a student exchange. My participation in choir has been going on both inside and (whenever I could) outside of school since seventh grade.

I think I’ll apply to 2-4 B.Arch schools, 2-4 BS/BA Arch schools, and 2-4 LACs, depending on how many of each I find that I like I guess. The only UC I’ve really considered is Berkeley, which falls under the BS/BA Arch category I’m pretty sure. I know UCLA also has a good architecture program, it’s just not really appealing to me I guess.

Pitzer seems nice. It’s in California, so that’s a plus. Those 5 colleges do seem great. Just out of curiosity, would I be able to take classes at Scripps while going to Pitzer, even though it’s an all women’s school? I’ll look into those other LACs you mentioned too.

If an aunt went to a certain college, would that qualify as legacy? My aunt went to Vassar (I find it funny that she studied German Literature and now she’s a middle/high school math teacher).

Tulane and ND don’t seem very competitive, since all they require is personal information for you to apply (Tulane also requires a short bio, but I don’t think it’s for the purpose of evaluating your writing skills). WUSTL, however, requires a transcript, essay, etc. I think it would be odd if they asked for all those and then weren’t very selective with their admissions.

Bkred15,
Thank you for pointing that out to me. However, I think those numbers may have changed since 2009. If 96 of 1539 applicants were accepted to architecture, but this year 882 of 1845 were accepted to Architecture or Environmental design, then I think either the number of applicants to architecture or the acceptance rate has changed significantly. That SAT score for architecture from 2009 is 83 higher than their recent reported statistics for architecture and environmental design. Maybe it’s dragged down by a non-selective environmental design program, but the drastically different numbers are interesting. Maybe they have a low yield after acceptance, it seems like the 882 of 1845 is acceptance and 96 of 1539 is enrollment, but I don’t think the yield would be low enough for that alone to make the difference.