<p>Hi! Could you help me get some ideas of colleges to look at? I want to know where I am in terms of colleges. </p>
<p>Gender: F
Ethnicity: Asian (Chinese)
Stats: 4.0 UW GPA, most rigorous courseload, 204 on sophomore PSAT, SAT II Bio 740</p>
<p>Major: Not really sure. Definetly math/science, not humanities. Probably will apply undecided</p>
<p>Criteria: Preferably northeast, northeast weather, medium-to-large, finances not a major issue</p>
<p>ECs: (briefly, don't want to give out too many details) volunteering 2 years, medical research, top leadership position in one club, lower leadership position in another club, awards in a debate-ish competition, leadership award, national foreign language award, play an instrument</p>
<p>Are there particular reasons for these suggestions? Please let me know if there is something in specific you are promoting, so I know why these colleges might be good for me.</p>
<p>Also, the PSAT and SAT scores will almost definetly go up when I take them as a junior. I’m hoping for NMF. I’m taking the AP Euro exam tomorrow and the SAT II Chem in June.</p>
<p>What do you classfy as medium and what do you classify as large? Do you prefer/want urban or rural? Public or private? Religious affiliation or not?</p>
<p>Boston College sounds like a good fit, for location, size and academics. A high % of elite northeast schools are liiekly what you’d probably deem “small”, i.e. less than 5,000 students. Syracuse may be a match, but you probably can get into a somewhat more prestigious school. Lehigh is small to medium.</p>
<p>For big schools, there are UMaryland @ College Park, UConn, Delaware, Rutgers and Penn St. </p>
<p>Your size requirement eliminates a high # of great northeastern schools.
If you consider smaller schools, consider the Ivies, the Patriot League schools (Lehigh, Colgate, Holy Cross, Lafayette, Bucknell, Fordham), Northeastern, Georgetown, Gettsyburg, Franklin & Marshall, RPI, Univ. Rochester, Skidmore, Stevens, TCNJ, Carnegie Mellon, Johns Hopkins and Cooper Union. There are many more in Maine and Mass., but most are smaller.</p>
<p>Preferably urban, big city. Public or private doesn’t matter. No religious affiliation. Small schools are actually fine, just not tiny ones (like Sarah Lawrence). I’ve visited Johns Hopkins, Dartmouth, Columbia, and Princeton - not for college visits, other reasons.</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins - very modern architecture, like research focus, close proximity to Baltimore/Washington good, neighborhood not so much</p>
<p>Columbia - love NYC, core looks interesting, good size, close to home (good), not at all worried about neighborhood</p>
<p>Princeton - like requirements system, pretty campus, don’t like extremely suburban location, on the smaller side
(That being said, I live in a tiny suburb, but still thought Princeton was kinda lonely)</p>
<p>Dartmouth - don’t know that much because I went at night (long story), beautiful campus, secluded location</p>
<p>*Johns Hopkins - very modern architecture, like research focus, close proximity to Baltimore/Washington good, neighborhood not so much</p>
<p>Columbia - love NYC, core looks interesting, good size, close to home (good), not at all worried about neighborhood</p>
<p>Princeton - like requirements system, pretty campus, don’t like extremely suburban location, on the smaller side
(That being said, I live in a tiny suburb, but still thought Princeton was kinda lonely)</p>
<p>Dartmouth - don’t know that much because I went at night (long story), beautiful campus, secluded location *</p>
<p>These are all good choices. Is money no object? Will your parents pay $55k+ each year for the school of your choice? If so, then great! If not, you’ll need to consider any financial limitations that you might face.</p>
<p>In terms of what i was looking for at a school, i had a pretty similar idea of what size and location I wanted–slightly on the larger size, in a biggish city…I then ended up at Dartmouth, no idea how but I cannot imagine being happier. Anyway, I’d also looked at BC, Georgetown, Hopkins, NYU, U of Chicago, Harvard, Yale, Brown, Princeton, Columbia.</p>
<p>Give Hopkins’ neighborhood another chance…although I only say that because I’m biased, its home for me. I love it there; in the end I just couldn’t go to a school in my hometown, but its a great place. And its not as scary as everyone says…okay four blocks in any direction, maybe, but the actual area of Hopkins itself is quite nice.</p>
<p>Boston is a good college city, so I’d look into schools there. MIT, Harvard, Tufts, BC are the only ones I really know anything about though.</p>
If not, you’ll need to consider any financial limitations that you might face.</p>