Extracurricular-
JV Tennis (2 years)- Freshman year I was fourth doubles, but at the end of sophomore I was first.
Scholastic Bowl (1 year)
Freshman & JV Softball
Basketball manager (1 year)
Student Council (3 years)-
Vice President of Junior Class
NHS- (2 years)
The Chairman of Service
Over +500 hours of volunteer hour-
consistently work at a local soup kitchen for 3 years
Mentor 8th grade year
Senior year became president
Big Brother/Sister (1 year)
VFW member- (1 year)
Interact Club (3 years)-
Sophomore year was director of publicity
Junior became President
decided to step down to volunteer coordinator to focus more on NHS
Act- 26 (trying to raise it)
Rank- 28 ot of 381 students.
GPA- 4.3 weighted on 4.5 scale
AP classes- APUSH, Ap Lang & Comp, AP Physics,Ap Psych
I am planning on taking AP Calc, AP Spanish.
Honors classes- Biology, Chem, Geometry, Advanced Algebra w/ Trig, Acce Spanish 3, Freshman English. Sophomore English, Pre Calc,
Work Experience- Old NAvy Cashier (1 year) & Intern at a software company (1 year), law clerk(over summer), law internship (last semester senior year)
My Dad and mom were the first people in my family to go to college
I have a long line of people in military service.
I have lots of leadership experience being invited to RYLA, MLI, and National Student Leadership Conference being able to go to Yale and learn the leadership required of lawyers.
Are you male or female?
For females: Barnard; Bryn Mawr and Wellesley are in close in suburbs easily reachable to major cities.
Holy Cross (Worcester)
Occidental
Haverford and Swarthmore (very close to Philly)
Macalaster (St. Paul)
Colorado College (Colorado Springs)
Claremont Consortium schools might be close enough for you
Are you a senior? I see from another thread your parents can’t pay anything/much toward school. You need to be looking at Merit Aid options (and getting that ACT score up). Look at the Financial Aid forum for the pinned threads on assured merit aid.
Eugene Lang College at The New School in NYC sounds perfect to you, if finances aren’t a major concern. I think they are test-optional, which will probably be a desirable feature for you. You might also look at Fordham-Lincoln Center: it’s smack in the middle of Manhattan. If you want a science major, though Lang is a poor choice, and you should probably opt for the main Fordham campus, in the Bronx. I do not think that your ACT score is competitive for some of the more prestigious colleges listed, if they are not test-optional, and it is unrealistic to expect that you can increase it to a level where it will be. Are you limited to smaller colleges, or would you also consider larger schools like DePaul or American?
Try the SAT. Kids who don’t do well on one test sometimes do much better on the other.
And add Vassar to your list if you get your test scores up. Look at the Common Data Set for each schools to determine how likely you are to be admitted, barring unknown factors like first to college.
And many large but more affordable state schools have honors colleges that feel like LACs for the first year. Check those out too.
Agnes Scott (Decatur/ Atlanta - women’s college)
Davidson (Charlotte suburb)
Trinity University (San Antonio, TX)
Rollins (Winter Park/ Orlando, FL)
Lake Forest (Chicago suburb - calls itself Chicago’s liberal arts college)
Public/not private:
College of Charleston
New College (Sarasota, FL)
UNC-Asheville
Holy Cross is located in mid-size city Worcester. HC HAS VERY NICE CAMPUS WITH GREAT school spirit. Holy Cross(don’t have to be religious) meets 100% demonstrated financial need and has Navy ROTC on campus.
Depends on how “urban” you want it to be.
Do you just want to avoid “rural” or do truly want a big city experience?
University of Puget Sound is in Tacoma, Washington but located in a residential neighborhood.
Whitman College is in the small town of Walla Walla, Washington (my personal favorite small town U.S.A.)
Both are excellent colleges, yet almost unknown on the East Coast. Definitely would challenge you.
I think you could get into Trinity in SA with just a little bit of a bump in ACT. It is pretty urban, and you have a good story to tell. They are pretty generous with aid. If you get a big bump in test scores, think about Macalester. Wonderful urban campus.
emmanuel in boston, not that great of a school but has a very pretty campus, also a little bit outside boston there are better schools like stonehill, tufts is another good choice