The college search starts now - I have my eyes set on NE.

Colleges & Universities Northeastern University
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<p>Greetings!
In summer 2009 I plan to make the jump into college, but I do face some issues.
First off, I’d like to start out by saying I’m looking for schools who have a good business program. I compiled a list of schools and asked for second opinions from some of my teachers and many stated NE was a great school.</p>

<p>Here is my current standing:
GPA ~3.00
2000’s on SAT</p>

<p>5 Years of math 4/5 Honors
4 Years of English 2/4 Honors
4 Years of Social Studies 2/4 2/4 Honors
4 Years of Science (3 Labs) 2/4 Honors</p>

<p>Honors level courses were taken my junior and senior year (exception of math)</p>

<p>Unfortunatly, I didn’t really participate in any ECA’s during highschool.
I have, and are still building, community service hours.
I’ve worked in retail sales for almost two years, and I plan to seek a leadership position in August.
Right now I’m 18, I just graduated from Highschool and I had decided a while ago to take a year of so I can pace myself through the college process. I also had originally wanted to seek a career in Commercial Airline piloting, but realized it was a long, expensive, and narrow route.</p>

<p>Finally, which made me really upset; as I was looking around at college requirements, many of them require a foreign language. Throughout my four years of school, never my guidance nor a teacher told me that colleges require this. So my solution to this is to take a language at a local community college during my year off. </p>

<p>Anyways, this is my top choice college, and I would like everyone to please provide some input on things I might do to strengthen my application.</p>

<p>Thank you so much,
Alexander MacFarlane</p>

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<p>Sounds like you have a good chance, what other schools are you looking at?</p>

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<ul>
<li> Bryant U

<ul>
<li>George Washington U</li>
<li>New York U</li>
<li>Northeastern U</li>
<li>Penn State U Park</li>
<li>Quinnipiac U</li>
<li>Ramapo C New Jersey</li>
<li>Rowan U</li>
<li>U Connecticut</li>
<li>U Delaware</li>
<li>U Maryland Coll Park</li>
<li>U North Dakota
Are currently the colleges on my list. Most of them I chose due to how close they are to where I live.</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

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<p>In my opinion, GWU and NYU are too much “in the city” (in DC and NYC, of course). I don’t know much about the others, but I applied to NYU and choose Northeastern instead partially because it was a little more campus-like than NYU was.</p>

<p>But then again, that’s just me. :slight_smile: I’ve always had a strange fondness for the campus-like feel. <em>shrug</em> I’m weird like that.</p>

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<p>Here’s an update list.
Boston U
Bryant U
Carnegie Mellon U
Fordham U
George Washington U
New York U
Northeastern U
Penn State U Park
Quinnipiac U
Ramapo C New Jersey
Rowan U
Southern Conn SU
U Connecticut
U Delaware
U Maryland Coll Park
U North Dakota
U South Car
Villanova U </p>

<p>Also, I’ll be able to decide what I lie better city or campus feel when I visit colleges this summer.</p>

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<p>What about rutgers?</p>