<p>Hi, I was hoping to get personalized answers for my situation.</p>
<p>I graduated HS Jun 2008, took a year off (internship and work for a few months, and few months of relaxing before college :), and heading off to community college this fall.</p>
<p>I'm taking summer courses for my major (classical civ) @ a local UC (UCLA) b/c my CC (or CC's in general) don't offer courses for my major. I'm currently pulling of a high A in one, and an A/B borderline in the other.</p>
<p>With my AP credit and summer course credit, I would be able to obtain an AA in one year so I would be submitting apps this winter.</p>
<p>My HS GPA: 3.65
SAT: CR:800 M:730 W:600 (took in HS)
SAT2: 790 (Korean), 720 (US History), 700 (Math 2), 700 (Lit)
AP's a got 3's in US History, World History, European History, English Lang
But I took World and English w/o taking AP classes
EC's: few clubs, couple internships, and a bit of work and volunteering</p>
<p>My main goal is to transfer to Brown or other small colleges strong in classics (strong in classical civ, not that interested in greek/latin), and in a small city/suburban location. </p>
<p>So here are my questions:</p>
<p>1) should I retake my SAT with the purpose of raising my writing score?
2) what are my chances for brown if my CC GPA is in the 3.7-4.0 range? Is it even worth applying to from a CC?
3) can you recommend other colleges similar to brown / that meet my criteria? I'm looking mainly for reach/match schools b/c i already have several safety schools.
4) i'm going to complete the CC's honors program, but does that help in transferring to private colleges? or just the UC's? should i just take regular courses for a higher gpa?
5) would i be entering as a junior since i have a AA degree or a sophomore since i only have a year and a summer's worth of college credits?</p>
<p>May I be blunt? I don’t think you’ll get into Brown but I think you should apply because what do I know?</p>
<p>You want to know about other schools similar to Brown that are strong in classics. The question is too broad. What area of the country are you looking at? How much financial aid, if any, will you need? Are you interested in a small school or would you like it to be bigger?</p>
<p>1)I don’t really need financial aid.
2)east or west coast would be best but geographical location doesn’t matter that much as long as it is not rural or in a huge city.(big city is ok if its in a clean, not shady part of the city i.e UCLA)
3)I prefer smaller schools to larger ones</p>
<p>thx for being blunt, but may i ask why you don’t think i’ll get in?
what aspect of my application should i improve?</p>
<p>It’s nothing against you, Brown is just so hard to get in to these days. This year they turned away scads of applicants with higher test scores, higher GPAs, and more extra curriculars than you have. But you should apply, I’m not on the admissions committee and I don’t know what will happen.</p>
<p>If you don’t need financial aid then that puts you at an advantage. These days more schools are having to consider ability to pay in their admissions decisions.</p>
<p>i know its a crapshoot already but im trying to do everything that will help my chances.</p>
<p>can u recommend other schools similar to brown
and do u think i should try to increase my SAT scores?
i think i can increase it at least by 150 points to 2200~2350 range b/c i took it w/o any prep,
and i wasn’t really thinking of going to college</p>
<p>Your chances at Brown are higher than at any other top school except perhaps Northwestern, Cornell, or WUStL. Brown has long had a relatively high transfer admit rate (last year it was 12%), and until recently it was actually easier to get in as a transfer than as a freshman.</p>
<p>After looking in to the colleges I liked Duke the most, but it seems it has an impossibly low transfer rate…any tips on increasing my chances?
I liked Cornell’s classics program better and I can overlook the rural part, but the school seemed big compared to Brown or Duke.
Also isn’t JHU and Northwestern really sciencey? How strong are their programs? and is it true that JHU is really hard (grade inflation, stress, pressure, student body just studies etc)?
I also liked GWU, can you comment on the strength of it’s classics program and how does it compare to Georgetown? Is it better or worse?</p>
<p>For the rest of the schools, I think I would take a UC school over them…I don’t think they would be worth the extra money to me.</p>
<p>Also I would really appreciate feedback on my other questions, esp should I retake my SATs (Writing) and SAT2s (Literature)??? </p>
<p>Hey! I’m going to study the Classics too :D</p>
<p>I honestly can’t tell you much about Brown (sorry) but you may want to check out University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. I’m told the classics department there is great.</p>
While they are both very strong in the sciences, and although the majority of JHU students are in science/engineering, both Hopkins and Northwestern have strong Classics programs (top 20-25, I’d say).
GWU actually has a pretty good program. Georgetown isn’t as strong in Classics as one might think, and GWU has some well-known faculty (most notably Eric Cline).</p>