<p>Ok, I'm a junior but I have a good idea of what my stats will be, and I want to know the distribution of chances of my choice schools to be able to know what I need to add or narrow down.</p>
<p>White Male, Florida</p>
<p>At the end of the first semester of my senior year I will have:
Gpa weighted/unweighted: 4.42/3.8
6-8 APs (4's and 5's)
Taking a full course load at the local CC this summer... Modern Literature, Creative Writing, and a few Sociology courses.
2250+ SAT
230 PSAT
Rank: 20/900
National Merit
IB Canidate
4 Years Marching Band, Pit section leader for 3 years (proficiency on xylophones, marimbas, timpani, et al...)
3 years Lacrosse, Awards all years, Starting Varsity for two, Captain senior year (possibly state team my senior year)
2 Years of Bass Guitar in jazz band
2 Years in wind ensemble (bass clarinet)
6 Years of playing bass guitar at church
Class Council and Congress</p>
<p>Schools I am looking at:
Amherst (possibly ED)
Brown
Princeton
Colgate
Williams
Vassar (Lacrosse recruit)
University of Miami
UCLA
UCB
Stanford
Boston University
Boston College
University of Florida</p>
<p>Depending on this lacrosse season and what camps I attend this summer, I could be recruited at some more DIII schools. I like schools to be in the city, or the rural northeast. I can do pretty much any size--I'll find a way to keep myself busy. I would love it if you guys could reccomend some more schools, either semi-elite DIII schools (similar to Amherst), or other top tier DI schools I may have overlooked. I want to major in english and possibly double-major in sociology.</p>
<p>Visrale, there are a lot of good points in your profile and nothing that would keep you out of any of the colleges on your list. Nothing's guaranteed of course and competition is fierce even for someone with all the right stuff, so do add some safeties and matches. Except for the Florida schools and possiby Vassar, your list seems very top heavy with highly selective schools.</p>
<p>I assume that the Florida U's are your safeties, but since they are so different in ambience from the other schools on your list, perhaps you could find some sure bets in that are more consistent in fit.</p>
<p>I'd suggest Bowdoin, Hamilton and Trinity as solid matches. Kenyon as a match/safety.</p>
<p>I drove through Hamilton and it seemed very nice. From the day and a half I spent in upstate New York, I really enjoyed it.</p>
<p>Also, I heard Kenyon had one of the best English departments... so I'll definitely look at that. I've heard a lot about bowdoin, but I've never looked into it much.</p>
<p>Thank you for your input, momrath.</p>
<p>And Fakeplastic, thanks for adding nothing at all to my thread. If your screen name indicates that you are a Radiohead fan, I'm embarassed to like the same band as you.</p>
<p>Ha, I know about Dartmouth. When I visited I was turned off to it, but I think a large part of it had to do with my tour guide. Call me superficial, but I really like it when my tour guide has a pretty face... and doesn't spend the time talking about mud wrestling in the nude. Not my shindig.</p>
<p>You've got the numbers, so you're qualified to apply anywhere.
Lacrosse is your hook, and look into where you'd be qualified to play.
The coach can get you admitted if you're on the "bubble" competing against thousands of other applicants who have numbers just like yours.
Get in touch with the coaches, send tapes and get their feedback.
Ask them if you can play for them.
Great numbers won't necessarily get you admitted to the school of your choice. Remember, it's a sales process...both ways.
BTW; Bowdoin is an awesome college, as is Colby, and Bates.
Also, consider Emory University.</p>
<p>Visarale don't let one tour guide impact your next four years...its worth applying. I admit pretty tour guides swayed me as well, but I wouldn't let it impact a decision where to apply. As pretty as the JHU tour guide was, I just couldn't apply and as bad as my Brown tour guide was it was still my first choice.</p>
<p>Lacrosse can really help you in the process, especially with DIII schools. What you need to do now, is contact coaches of colleges that your interested in, and start communicating with the coaches. They will most likely ask you to send in game tapes, and your transcript. If your get their attention now, they will help ALOT in the long run. </p>
<p>I was also just curious, what is your high school's profile? Public or private? highly competitive?</p>
<p>My school is in a town/city of about 50,000 people, 3000 kids at my school. It's situated in the projects but has an IB and a health academy magnet to diversify the school a bit. School's grade for standardized testing is around a D or a C.</p>
<p>Kids who go out of state per year are around 20 (and I think that's being generous...). Most everyone else who goes on to college goes to the CC, UCF, or UF. The most competition is between the top 20 or so in IB... the rest of the school just glides by.</p>
<p>I got my PSAT today. Not the 230 I was expecting, but a 223. Still, about 8 points over the cut-off last year, so that's good.</p>
<p>Latest revelation is that, contrary to my former belief, I probably am D1 material for lacrosse. I am going to a camp at Princeton and Brown this summer, and also a combine that Harvard, Yale, Penn, and most of the good DIII schools go to recruit. </p>
<p>I'm beginning to like the bigger schools a lot more than the smaller LAC's. I want a large pool of courses to choose from.</p>
<p>So basically, I'm interested, in a new order of preference:</p>
<p>Brown
Princeton
Harvard
Yale
Penn
Colgate
Amherst
Williams
Miami</p>
<p>I've pretty much ruled out the west coast... it's just too radical of a change, and the time difference would be rough in keeping in contact with my parents and friends.</p>