<p>i'm a jr now</p>
<p>female 3.8 unweighted gpa on 4.33 scale all honors and ap classes. big competitive regional hs
extemporaneous speaking since frosh year. have competed in states tourney every year and have gone to harvard tourn twice. 8th in state last year, squat this year
mock trial since soph., best witness award last year, attorney this year
winter track 9 10 11 jv (throw shotput)
spring track 9 10 (throw shot and discus)
youth and gov (mock congress like activity) nominated to national conference last year and nominated as an alternate this year. ran and lost contest for youth governor
french math sci natl honor society
foiunder of young dems in my town
i played piano and clarinet up to this year, now I'm only in choir
got into governor's school of public issues
640m, 720w, 800 r on Sats (will retake)
just took french, lit, and us history satiis
and ap eng langcomp and ap us history
next year i'm taking ap gov pol, ap euro history, ap eng lit, ap french, honors global studies, choir, ap calc ab (i didn't get recommended for calc bc unfortunately)
i went to the national youth leadership forum on law and constantly receive invitations to related events of the nylforums
I don't actually plan on applying or visiting to all of these, but if you could give me some insight into where i should be looking it would be appreciated.</p>
<p>Reach (pie in the sky)- tell me if it is at all worth a try (I am listing a lot of Ivies because I haven't visited yet and I havent been able to get more than word of mouth descriptions of program strengths and atmosphere)
Princeton
Harvard
Yale
Georgetown
UPENN
Brown
Dartmouth
Cornell
Tufts
Johns Hopkins
Williams
Amherst
Boston College</p>
<p>Realistic
Vassar
Smith
Wellesley
Coll of William and Mary
George Washington
Bryn Mawr
Boston University
SUNY Binghamton
UMD College Park</p>
<p>Safety (NJ resident)
The College of New Jersey
Rutgers New Brunswick
SUNY Albany
UMD Baltimore County</p>
<p>I am interested in majoring in English (especially rhetoric studies), French, International Studies, Comparative Literature
If you could give any guidance as to strong programs, I would really appreciate it.</p>
<p>Also for financial aid, my parents together make about 100k. In my state, especially in my county of Somerset, ranked the richest in the nation, that's middle class at the highest. My mom is a nurse and my dad is a (lietenant) prison guard, so I truly am from blue collar roots. Will colleges take that into account? I will be the first person from my dad's family to go to college (mom has a bs). I am white. I have two sisters, one who will enter college as a freshman when I am a jr, so we need money. I have thought of going to Rutgers (who would give me agood deal of money automatically froma state program to stop our so called brain drain) and transferring to a more expensive, and hopefully better, institutions. What do you think of this plan?<br>
How much money can I reasonably expect and can you think of good, but less selective, places that may offer it to me?</p>
<p>Thanks for reading.</p>