What schools would you suggest?

drewharrahill
Tue, 16 Jun 2015 12:24:11 +0000

So I’m going into my junior year next year (class of 2017) and have already made a small college list but the schools I’m looking at are either in state or elite are there any schools that are good around my area that aren’t too far away?

The colleges I’m looking at are: University of Chicago, Northwestern, Case Western, Notre Dame, University of Washington at St. Louis, plus some local ones like University of Nebraska Lincoln (would want to be in the honors program to go there), Creighton, Wesleyan

School Type: public
Location: Nebraska (one of the best public schools in Nebraska)
I’m taking the hardest classes I can

9th- GPA 3.9 UW & W
–Classes
Honors Geometry
Honors English 9
Spanish 2
HALE freshmen seminar (goes by many names in other places but it stands for High Ability Learners Education, for gifted students in grades 3-9 before we can really challenge ourselves in high school)
Other basic classes

10th- GPA 4.0 UW 4.17
–Classes
Honors Algebra 2
Honors English 10
AP World History (Haven’t got results back but I think it’s going to be a 5, 4 at the least)
Spanish 3
Other basic classes

11th- going into (Schedule set)
–Classes
Honors Pre Clac
AP English
AP US history
AP Bio
Chem
Spanish 4

12th- Predicted Schedule
–Classes
AP Clac BC
AP English
AP Spanish (not sure if I want to take it)
AP Psychology
Physics

Do you think this is a good course load? Any suggestions?

ACT (took middle of sophomore year, no studying, and stayed out until 1 the night before)
Composite: 26
English: 27
Math: 27
Reading: 26
Science: 24
I think I can get this up to a low to mid 30’s. Any study tips?

SAT
took in June so no results but I felt much better with the SAT than I did the ACT, I think I did really well in math.
Any study tips? How did you or should I go about the SAT II tests?

Extra:
Freshmen basketball and baseball
Track sophomore and presumably all following years
One Act Play sophomore and presumably all following years
Debate (participant freshmen year then captain sophomore and presumably all following years)
SADD (participant freshmen year then Student board sophomore and presumably all following years)
Student Council junior year presumably also senior year (officer on one of the boards)
Gay- Straight Alliance founder/ president junior and senior year (set everything up already won’t officially start til then)
HOBY freshmen seminar
Presumably NHS because the board of teachers like me

Work experience:
Babysitting
Internship with mutual of omaha animal caretakers (pretty much working at a small zoo without all the constraints)
Farm Work

Other:
Lots of volunteer experience with random things
Going to Bolivia on a mission trip summer going into senior year (assuming this could be a good essay topic for me)

Because I still have time I just want to know what schools I am missing that aren’t huge and are good schools intellectually.
I don’t want to go to any Ivy’s or coast schools because I think they are simply too far away from my family and