<p>-small class sizes
-looking into a physics or math major
-near a decent sized town or city
-preferrably somewhere cold</p>
<p>also place with decently sized scholarships</p>
<p>we need info about you. GPA? PSAT scores? SAT scores? AP classes taken/ scores?
What state are you from? Size of college desired? Huge? small? Private? Public? Do you want a rah-rah “typical” college experience with football, frats and a vibrant social life? Or a quiet college experience with serious studious students?
and are you a Jr or senior?</p>
<p>I’m a junior.
Looking for a college that I won’t get swallowed in so not too huge but not small enough that everybody knows everybody’s business.
I have a 4.0 gpa.
And I’m looking for I guess more of a studious college</p>
<p>By “scholarships” do you mean financial aid in general or only merit-based aid?</p>
<p>Carleton, Macalester and Reed for starters. Are you female, and if so are you interested in women’s colleges?</p>
<p>Cornell- it’s huge, but it is broken up into smaller schools. Ithaca is a small city, but lots of fun. It’s cold there…</p>
<p>Columbia, Carleton and U Chicago should be at the top of your list.
Add Princeton and MIT as reaches[ they are reaches for everyone]</p>
<p>Until you have SAT scores, you can only speculate and hope.
You need to figure out how you can achieve your goal of small classes without too small a school–do you mean 500 freshmen? 1000?
And what is “cold”–Philadelphia? New England? Michigan?</p>
<p>we need to know SAT or ACT scores to suggest scholarships. If you’re an international, and you need financial aid, then you need to target schools that give a lot of aid to internationals.</p>
<p>I’m not an international.
I’m not exactly sure if I am interested in a women’s college.
I’m taking the ACT in 10 days.
By scholarships, I mean merit based aid.</p>
<p>Grinnell meets 3 out of 4 criteria: It’s rural, about an hour from Des Moines and from Iowa city. But, great merit aid, strong math and physics depts, new facilities, quirky/intellectual culture, small class sizes (under 25, even for intro classes), and lots of faculty mentoring with a strong track record for getting students into top Phd programs. They also have an observatory (no light pollution) which is very cool.</p>
<p>University of Rochester and Case Western are very good with merit money.</p>