any good ideas for colleges?

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<p>i live in florida...</p>

<p>GPA: 3.3-3.4 unweighted i believe, somewhere around 3.7-8 weighted probably (my school doesn't tell us our combined gpa's often, i don't know why)</p>

<p>ACTs: 31 (with writing)</p>

<p>Senior Year Courses:
tv production 7 honors, ap statistics, economics honors, ap us government, anatomy and physiology honors, ap literature and comp, ap psychology</p>

<p>besides that i've mostly been in honors, and i've already taken 5 ap's (human geography (4), environmental science (4), language and comp (5), us history (3), european history (3))</p>

<p>High School Ranking: top 25%</p>

<p>Extracurricular positions:
- vp of television studio (12)
- debate individual events captain (12)</p>

<p>extracurriculars:
- tv studio (9-12)
- debate (11-12)
- french club (11-12)
- community basketball (9-10)
- school and county history fair 2nd place (11)
- county history fair "excellent" rating (9-10)</p>

<p>academic honors:
- national honor society (11-12)
- ap scholar with distinction
- pathfinder scholarship finalist for forensics/speech (its a local scholarship...someone is selected to represent the school for 10 or so different categories...final judging hasn't occured but i was nominated from my school)</p>

<p>essay topic (on common app): this past summer i worked as a sleep-away camp counselor so i wrote about how the experience shaped me and how it helped spark my interest in what i plan to major in (psych) and how the skills i learned will help me in my future.</p>

<p>i know it's getting really late with the college search and my number one is barnard, but i know there are lots of other great colleges out there, i was wondering if anyone could recommend some for me? i'm very interested in majoring in psych so a strong program is a plus. thanks!</p>

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<p>What do you want to do?</p>

<p>You should apply to schools that have programs you want to go to, not just schools that will accept you. I'd be going to Tulane if that were the case.</p>

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<p>i'm interested in psychology, either counseling or experimental. but i'm also interested in a departure from my everyday life, i want to go somewhere that it will be a drastic change (i live in south florida). i don't want to apply to schools just for the heck of it...which is why i made this thread...because i want to see what others think would be good for me.</p>

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<p>I don't know very much about Psychology but I think some good schools to look into might be Vassar (near NYC and a small liberal arts school like Barnard), or Skidmore (also in NY), or if you like the west coast I think Lewis & Clark, Reed and Whitman have good psychology departments...</p>

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<p>Union (NY), Lawrence (WI) and Franklin & Marshall (PA) may be worth a look. All are very good schools. Good luck!</p>

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<p>thank you for all of your opinions!</p>

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<p>really random, but wow we have alot in common. i live in broward. and go to sleepaway camp. haha. which camp were you a counselor at?</p>

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<p>it was called camp pocono trails, it's in pennsylvania in the poconos, about 30 mins or so from allentown (that's where i had to fly into). and what do we have in common? like grades, major, etc?</p>