Chance Me?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Some schools im thinking about are: bucknell, lehigh, colgate, vanderbilt, college of william and mary, dickinson, boston college, and middlebury </p>

<p>High school junior at an academically challenging public school </p>

<p>GPA: 3.6 out of 4.0 (should be at least .1 higher by the end of the year)
straight As since the beginning of sophomore year</p>

<p>PSAT scores:
Math: 64
CR: 67
W: 68</p>

<p>took the sat2 in math I, got a 680
thinking about taking american history and possibly french?</p>

<p>classes this year:</p>

<p>British lit: 4.0
Drawing 3: 4.0
Pre-Calc Enriched: 3.5
Physics: 3.5
AP american history: 3.5
marketing: 3.5
french 11 honors: 4.0
spanish 1: 4.0 </p>

<p>next year:
AP english
AP psychology
AP statistics (should i take ap calc instead? i don't really like math)
AP french
spanish 9 honors
chinese civilization
contemporary issues
speech and communication
painting</p>

<p>ECs</p>

<p>volleyball since 7th grade, varsity team junior and senior year.
leader of a school charity club - not a very large club, but i am one of four leaders.
jv softball but wont go on to varsity this junior year.
have contributed to the school newspaper about 3-4 times, plan on contributing more this year and joining the staff.
lots of volunteer work through my church's youth group and an outside volunteer trip one summer
have been a camp counselor, i babysit often, and am now a sales associate at an upscale clothing store </p>

<p>I definately want to study in the liberal arts, but im not sure exactly what yet.</p>

<p>thanks!</p>

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<p>also if u wanna reccomend any schools i missed that’d be great too</p>

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<p>Are you in-state for W&M (which I think is public)?</p>

<p>PSATs are a bit low, but most people do better on the SATs. I think 2100+ would give you a really, really good shot at all of those</p>

<p>You may want to look at Trinity and Lafayette for matchy types and maybe Muhlenburg (sp?) and Ursinus Colleges for safeties</p>

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<p>If you’re looking at Vanderbilt and are interested in liberal arts, then look at Rhodes in Memphis. It’s a smaller/tighter community, basically completely dedicated to undergrad (no grad school or medical school to siphon resources), and a prettier campus - all while still being in the middle of a major urban area with all of the internship and research opportunities that come with that. Your stats would also be more of a match with Rhodes and you’d likely get better merit aid than at Vandy.</p>

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<p>Some others to possibly check into are Gettysburg, Denison (OH) and Fordham.</p>

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<p>Not necessarily, I know a lot of people whose scores dropped well over a hundred points when they took the SAT.</p>

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<p>Mapleleaf: i’m not in-state for WM i live in new york but my grandpa went to grad school there so maybe that helps</p>

<p>I looked at lafayette but didnt really like it and I’ll probably look at Trinity </p>

<p>thanks for the help!</p>

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<p>Connecticut College, Wesleyan, Holy Cross, Swarthmore, Gettysburg, Skidmore, Hamilton and Union. You can definitely start touring, but do not make any real plans until you have the SAT scores in hand. As noted, some have a real drop off their PSAT scores. I did.</p>

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<p>When will you be taking the SAT and/or ACT?</p>

<p>Is money a concern? Have your parents said that they’ll pay $55k per year for the college of your choice?</p>

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<p>i’m taking the sat in march - money isn’t a big concern my parents said i can go wherever i want</p>