<p>General Info: female, New Jersey, notably difficult public high school</p>
<p>Academics: 96.5 average (2nd decile) all honors and AP through HS (except 2)</p>
<p>SATs: 680 math/600 reading/690 writing (taking them one more time and getting tutored)</p>
<p>Senior Year Schedule: Executive Student Council Class(treasurer), AP Literature, AP Government and Politics, AP European History, Honors Spanish, Honors Calculus, Education as a Career</p>
<p>Extracurriculars: Future Educators (President of club and State Officer), Executive Student Council, Writing Club (publicist), Current Events Club, Spanish National Honor Society, National Honor Society
I also went to a leadership camp for 3 years and just came back from an academy for future teachers!
Community service: Center for Food Action (100+ hours), Tutoring at library (30+h), started my own community service club at school</p>
<p>I want to become an American History Teacher!</p>
<p>LIST: (in order of preference)
Gettysburg College
The College of New Jersey
University of Richmond
Dickinson College
Franklin and Marshall College
Lafayette College
Bucknell University</p>
<p>Your list sounds ideal. I assume TCNJ would be your safety? I’m not as up on their stats, etc, but all of the others are nice LACs for a potential History Teacher. Are they affordable? Have you run Net Price Calculators? If your EFC is affordable, then you’ll likely get some nice packages at a few of them if you get accepted as they tend to be very good with need based aid. If your EFC is not affordable, you might want to focus on those that offer merit aid and drop those that don’t.</p>
<p>You don’t mention anything that you are looking for in a college, but wheaton college in ma gives good merit aid that you would probably qualify for. For a lot of people that I know who chose to go there, it was only about $1000 more than ther state school so it made sense to go there.</p>
<p>Thank you!! Ideally, I would like a small school (2,000-3,000) that is not in an urban area! I would also like it to be selective (30-45% accepted).
TCNJ is surprisingly very hard to get into actually- the statistics and scores of the students accepted are about the same as the rest of those on my list!</p>
<p>You are definitely going to want a safety. Your stats are good, but with all schools having a lower acceptance rate, you wouldn’t want to be left with no options next spring. We have had kids at our school who have seemed to be attractive candidates, but they didn’t get accepted anywhere except their safety. I actually recommend two… that way you will have a choice and choices in the spring are good. Kids who only have one option after being rejected or waitlisted elsewhere are never as happy.</p>
<p>Furman might be another you’d want to consider. It’s further south (SC) than your other options, but students who are looking for what you want tend to like it there. I’m not up on their current acceptance rate.</p>
<p>Thank you!! I actually have some safeties that I’m thinking about and I don’t have time to visit them, so any thoughts? Marist University/Rutgers University/Union College/George Mason/James Madison/etc?</p>
<p>Your safeties sound good, but I haven’t been to any of them (have been by some of them, but that hardly counts), so I can’t say whether they would be good fits for you or not. Have you checked Fiske guide and what it says about them?</p>