<p>I'm a junior looking at colleges and am struggling in this process so much. I know I'd like to attend a school in the south, east coast, or west coast (I've lived in Ohio my whole life and am looking for a change). I am an athlete who wants to continue with my sport in college. I really enjoy sports medicine, French, English, and other human studies. I have no idea what I want to major in which makes this process even more difficult, but does anyone have any ideas for a school that may be a good fit? I am interested in prestigious schools but also am interested in schools that I will apply to two safety schools as well. Thank you all for your help! </p>
<p>We need more info to help you find reaches, matches and safeties.</p>
<p>You mentioned English, French and Kinesiology/Sports Medicine.</p>
<p>Sports Medicine would be a pre-med situation where you’d likely major in Biology or Chemistry and then head to med school. </p>
<p>English (or English Lit) and French are more straightforward majors.</p>
<p>So: We need your unweighted GPA, test scores, AP (or IB) classes taken, AP test score results, and extracurricular activities. </p>
<p>Also, do you have preferences for class size, school size, social scene, and size of town/surroundings? </p>
<p>All of those factors will help us help you.</p>
<p>give us some more info. there’s three to four thousand schools out there 
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<p>read the first post on this url and respond to its suggestions:</p>
<p><a href=“Before you ask which colleges to apply to, please consider - College Search & Selection - College Confidential Forums”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1621234-before-you-ask-which-colleges-to-apply-to-please-consider-p1.html</a></p>
<p>are you a good enough athlete to be recruited? what sport or sports do you play? are you D1, 2 , or 3?</p>
<p>Yes, if you could provide your test scores, GPA, and academic rigor. Also, let me know if you have participated in English, French, or Science APs, clubs, competitions, etc.</p>
<p>Sorry for the lack of information! I’m a swimmer, I would like to swim D1. What I’m looking for (ideally) in a school would be a great schools academically that offers womens swimming. I’m interested in anything from an isolated campus (like Dartmouth) to something like a larger suburban setting. I think it would be nice to be in near a college town but that will not be too much of a factor into my decision. Location, however, is important in my decision. I would like to be in a sorority if possible, but if not that’s okay, Greek life will not affect my decision too much. I’ve taken all honor and AP classes so far, sophomore year I took an AP history class and I got a 4 on the exam. Junior year I took AP literature, history, and math and for a 5,5,4. I’m only in a couple of clubs, model UN being the only prestigious one. I’ve taken the national French test and did well on that (I can’t remember my score but I was nationally ranked). My unweighted GPA is 3.8. I’ve looked into some schools, but not too much: Dartmouth, UNiveristu of Virginia, university of North Carolina chapel hill, Stanford, duke, Vanderbilt, brown, univeristu of cal berkely, MIT, Villanova, university of Pennsylvania, and university of Texas, university of michigan. Thanks again! </p>
<p>Thank you. ACT or SAT? Have you spoken to any coaches about the possibility of being recruited or a walk-on at D1?</p>
<p>SAT: 2040
ACT: 30</p>
<p>Recruiting looks good for me for d2. However I want to go to a D1 school, I do have someone who is helping me with the recruiting process but for the schools I’m looking at (except for the ivy leagues and schools like vanderbuilt) I’ll be a walk on </p>
<p>Recruitment may be a major factor in your chances of getting into some of these schools,Your scores are a bit lower than average for the most selective schools (Brown, Stanford, MIT). You would still be a qualified candidate, however, and if recruited, your chances increase greatly. UC Berkely would be a good match, as would USC, UNC at chapel hill, Virginia, and Villanova. You also might consider University of Miami, Boston University, and Tulane</p>
<p>Let me know if you are strongly opposed to or interested in any of the schools above, or if there are other factors to consider. Is there one general area of study you favor most out of the three you listed?</p>
<p>You don’t need to pick your college by major. French and English are offered virtually everywhere, from large public universities to small private LACs. Kinesiology is a little more difficult to find (another alternatives is exercise science), but you don’t sound 100% sold on it. You don’t have to major in a science field to go into sports medicine - you could major in anything and be pre-med, but if you did want to major in kinesiology or exercise science you’d be a bit more limited in where you could go. Still, you could be French pre-med and still become a sports physician.</p>
<p>So you don’t have to pick your major before going to school - you can apply totally undecided.</p>
<p>I’m not very interested in u of Miami, but otherwise the others are of interest for me. For dartmouth and brown, my swimming will definitely be an advantage given my times are faster than many of their current swimmers. Same goes for MIT and Vanderbilt. Stanford is definitely a stretch for me, but it is my dream school. I think for me I am most interested in pursuing a career in sports medicine. I’m not sure which school/ major would be the best fit in that case. However I find English and French and anthropology extremely interesting so I am always torn between those. However I do see myself going the premed route. </p>
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<p>it is Vanderbilt</p>
<p>do you want to go to med school?</p>
<p>what is your home state?</p>
<p>what is your budget? how much will your parents pay?</p>
<p>Yes, if you are a walk on, then you have to assume you will not have a scholarship (can’t assume you will ever get one). Have you run net price calculators for any of these schools with your parents? You can find them on the college websites on the financial aid webpages, and they give you an idea of what your cost of attendance at the college would likely be.</p>
<p>I’m from ohio, med school definitely looks likely, however I am still undecided. At this point I’m not considering budget too much because I just need a general idea of where to look and what to do once I’m there 
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<p>You need to consider Budget NOW if you intend to go into med school. Are your times all that good? If they were you would probably be on the D1 schools’ radar. An alternative is to consider D3 schools like Denison and Kenyon. Great swim programs. great education, but in OH. Lots of grads move out of their home states after graduation.</p>
<p>There is no point in looking at colleges you can’t afford. Some of the schools on your list cost a quarter of a million dollars for four years. You need to work with your parents to see what they can afford, THEN start looking at schools. You might get need based aid (the financial calculators can help you estimate how much), but you need to know what they will pay. It is a waste of time to research colleges without this information.</p>
<p>I’ll add Oberlin – they also have a varsity swim team. Great school too.</p>
<p>No doubt you have some idea of how many hours D1 athletes give to their sports and how that affects their studies because you’ve been giving a lot of hours every day for many years and still have good grades. The AOs will like seeing your dedication to one activity and will have some idea how many hours you’ve invested to get so good. </p>
<p>You can go anywhere pre-med and major in anything as long as you get As in the prerequisites, have a high GPA, do well on the MCATs, get good LORs, and have some research experience or clinical volunteer hours. You also want to have low or no debt when you leave u/g because you’ll soon have plenty of debt if you go to med school. So I’d suggest that you make one of your safeties a D1 school that you know you can afford and that you know you would like to walk onto: my suggestion is OSU or MiamiOH. You’re likely to be able to afford it without a scholarship, and that’s the most important characteristic of a safety. A second possibility is a D2 or 3 school that’s also an Ohio public university. </p>
<p>When you look at times at MIT and elsewhere, are you also looking to see if the swimmer with those times is graduating in 2015? Might be a vacancy there. OTOH, D1 sports are all about the intrasquad competition for spots on the team and events. Seems like you’re in a good place.</p>
<p>One question might be what to schools to choose in the event that none of the D1s you’ve mentioned come thru with an offer and enough money to allow you to go there. What schools would you want to swim for then that you could afford to go to? It might come down to a public that’s less expensive than the UCs, UMich, or PSU that would give you some merit for your swimming. Who would they be?</p>