<p>As I am making my list of colleges and universities that I plan on applying to, I realize I am in love with none of them. If you know of any schools which you think I may be interested in, please let me know; I would greatly appriciate it.</p>
<p>What I am looking for is a school with diversity. Diversity of passions, racial diversity, religious diversity; any type of cultural or personal mix would be great. I personaly plan on majoring in phsycology or/and visual arts. As far as location, I have no preferances (ok, maybe I would prefer to live with warmer year-round weather, but the schools itself is more important). I would rather the student body size be significantly larger than my high school (2,000). I have no strong feelings towards the city. As long as there are some interesting shops, cafes, movie thearters, and music venues around, I will be content. While not muscically talented myself, I would love to be surround by music, any type of music. I seem to be only attracted to Liberal art schools; I assume this is because of the more libral and diverse students. Also it would be helpful if the cost was less than 30,000/yr.</p>
<p>With this said, my grades remain relatively average.
GPA - 3.5
SAT - 1550
ACT - 22</p>
<p>I am a quiet but passionate girl, trying to find a school where I can be challeneged and grow.</p>
<p>any imput is appriciated.</p>
<p>You might want to look at COPLAC schools. You can check them them via their website at .org. They are public LACs and many meet your requirements in terms of size, diversity, academic majors and cost. My S attends College of Charleston and was also very interested in UNC Asheville. Hope this helps.</p>
<p>Less than $30,000 means public or getting financial aid
Diversity such as you seek is seldom found in warm weather
Look at Towson and Salisbury in MD; UNC Charlotte; SUNY Purchase; Temple; Rutgers</p>
<p>LACs tend to be above 30K and above 2000 kids.</p>
<p>Ya: Just curious… how does warm weather relate to diversity or lack there of?</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>I don’t think she’s making such a claim. She just also likes warm weather in addition to some of her other wishes. </p>
<h2>She also wants schools that are bigger than 2000. </h2>
<p>The less than $30k is going to be a problem if going to an OOS private or public.</p>
<p>Do you know what your family’s EFC is? If it’s too high for federal grants, then you will be limited to your $30k budget (assuming that you don’t want to take out large loans - which aren’t a good idea anyway).</p>
<p>Have your parents given you a budget of $30k per year?</p>
<p>The only OOS publics that I can think of that might fit the cost are…
UMinnesota
LSU
UAlabama
UNC-Ashville
UNC-Charlotte
some SUNYs</p>
<p>Some smaller directional publics would also fit your budget, but they tend to be more commuter/suitcase schools w/o the other things you want. I don’t think it would be worth the cost to go to an OOS directional public.</p>
<p>My question was not directed to the OP but to Yabeyabe2 who wrote “Diversity such as you seek is seldom found in warm weather.” This statement just seems so strange to me so I wanted to know what he/she was referring to.</p>
<p>Thank you everyone for your suggestions. I will look into these.</p>
<p>I’m glad Asheville was brought up because it is a school I am familar with and do like a lot. What I am worried about is that I have heard Ashville is a very good school, which makes me question my chances. </p>
<p>And I am interested in diversity and warm weather, but I do understand what you mean by the two not exactly going hand-in-hand.</p>
<p>I think that there is diversity in some/many warm weather schools. The issue may be what the individual considers “diversity”. I’ve found that some individuals only consider schools diverse if the schools have a larger percentage of their desired ethnic group than what is found in the USA.</p>