<p>Because I'm always meeting people who know more than be about a given school, I'm wondering what people think in terms of my chances and the "fit" of the following schools.</p>
<p>Transfer from lower top-20 LAC:</p>
<p>As a junior transfer applicant, my GPA would be 3.5+ with heavy courseload (would have been closer to 3.7 if not sick for most of one semester)
SAT: 1480
SATII: 710, 720, 740</p>
<p>ECs: not Harvard material, but strong -a few campus leadership positions with community-service focus.</p>
<p>Strong essays, strong recs (got me accepted to Swarthmore once before).</p>
<p>I am interested in Africana studies, Ecology, and Environmental Studies. I am looking for a liberal-arts colleges, or SMALL-medium universities where there is emphasis on professor-student relationship and de-emphasis on competition between students for grades or opportunities. A pretty, non-crowded, not-too-noisy campus are also very important to me. I'm uber-liberal politically. I would like a school that is a little more academically intensive than Smith (the school I am currently attending).</p>
<p>So far, I am looking at:
Bowdoin
Swarthmore
Brown
?Tufts (don't know too much about their undergrad program)
Barnard -in city, but seems to have good environmental studies resources b/c of Columbia -sort of a safety</p>