<p>I am just starting to look. I am a junior - psat 224.My grade point is an unweighted 3.5. I have type I juvenile diabetes and my blood sugars were not good my freshman year and I recived too many B's. I am on a new insulin and have mostly A's now. I am president of the young democats club , I do crew, and am an award winning debater. I realize my grades are to low for the ivies and Stanford. I don't know what my major will be, but I eventually wan't to go to law school.Any suggestions? I wan't to start vivisting schools over spring break.</p>
<p>School doesn't rank.</p>
<p>What kind of school do you want?</p>
<p>west/midwest/south/east
small/big/medium
artsy/preppy/academic/other
liberal/conservative
coed/single sex</p>
<p>Other preferences?</p>
<p>I wan''t moderate to liberal- artsy to preppy- small to medium. I am open to any area of the country.</p>
<p>I don't wan't single sex. I am female.</p>
<p>May look at Colgate and Holy Cross both very good liberal arts schools with strong academics and crew programs. Of the two, Holy Cross has a better location-1 hour from Boston.</p>
<p>First of all, Stanford, like Princeton and Michigan, does not look at your Freshman grades, so if your Achilles heel is your Freshman year, do not give up on Stanford. If your SAT is good enough and you write good essays (jevenile diabetes is serious business you know), then I think you have a shot. </p>
<p>What do you want to major in?</p>
<p>I wan't to major in something that will lead to a law degree with a practice in international relations. I do model UN along with debate.</p>
<p>So, perhaps, I might major in economics or political science</p>
<p>We obviously need to see your SAT, SAT II, APs etc..., but there are many good schools to consider. </p>
<p>Private research universities like the Ivies, Chicago, Duke, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Northwestern, Rochester and Stanford.</p>
<p>State schools like Cal-Berkeley, Michigan, UCLA, UCSD, UNC, UVA and Wisconsin-Madison.</p>
<p>LACs like Amherst, Bowdoin, Carleton, Claremont McKenna, Colby, Colgate, Haverford, Macalester, Middlebury, Oberlin, Pomona, Reed, Swarthmore, Wesleyan and Williams.</p>
<p>In short, you have much to think about and more importantly, you have much to work for. But I will say this, anybody that lives with juvenile diabetes and keeps her/his grades up is a survivor...and universities know that.</p>
<p>I haven't had time to prep because of debate. My psat scores are cr760 m730 w 750. I hope I can hold those. I just got assigned my college counselor at school. She told my mother that the diabetes would not help me get in a school. I don't wan't to use an illness to get in. At the same time blood sugar swings and 4 shots a day aren't too cool.</p>
<p>I must respectfully disagree with your counselor. And I never said you should "use" your medical condition to help you get in. But it IS a part of you and you should certainly explain how it has affected your life. Nobody is saying you should make excuses, but you certainly have to compensate where others do not.</p>
<p>I don't do untimed testing. There is always the worry that I will go high or low in the SAT. My mother worries a lot about that. So far I have made it through high school entrance exams and the psat's.</p>
<p>Granted, a lot of the LAC's are easier to get into then HYP, and a lot of LAC's have 3-3 programs, a source of angst on the CC community. For instance, I will be going to Carleton College next year and they have a program with Columbia Law School where you do 3 years at Carleton and 3 years at Columbia and when you graduate, you receive both a B.A. and a J.D. I was attracted to Carleton as I also did Model UN and possibly want to major in International Relations, which Carleton has an outstanding program in (as well as foreign languages, English, and History). I have also thought about law school, and while I haven't really thought about the 3/3 program, it's definitely a possibility. Come look at Carleton, as it sounds like you'll be a National Merit Semi-Finalist, and Carleton treats them kindly, and it is definitely an artsy, liberal school. </p>
<p>Others: Oberlin, Macalester, Swarthmore, Grinnell, Middlebury, Wesleyan, University of Chicago, Georgetown, Brown, George Washington University (safety)</p>