<p>Hello, I am a senior and I'm not too good at searching for colleges that fit me. So can you guys help?</p>
<p>I live in the NYC area, and I'd like a relatively close, smaller college focused more on academics and science than arts, drugs, or parties. My average is about a 93, with sats: math-660, cr-680, writing 730, and acts: math-33, english-30, reading-31, science-30. I volunteer and am active in NHS, student government, and several school clubs. I have a tough course load, and my recomendations and essay should be good.</p>
<p>I know that Williams is a stretch, that Vassar is too artsy/drugy, and that I can probably get into somewhere better than Clark. So can you guys offer some options that I can look into? Thank you so much.</p>
<p>Take a look at the midwestern LACs: Carleton is probably a stretch, but Grinnell (rural), Macalester(urban) and Oberlin (small town) are all match/reaches and matches. </p>
<p>Grinnell, which my S attends, has outstanding sciences, terrific facilities, a quirky, intellectual, hard-working and unpretentious student body, no class bigger than 25 students, and no distribution requirements. They also have substance free dorms, which is where he’s lived, and great food.</p>
<p>Maybe Amherst, is pretty preppy. You might like Hamilton and Colgate as well, and maybe University of Rochester and Syracuse University might interest you.</p>
<p>I don’t know if you would consider it close enough but we recently visited small liberal arts colleges in Ohio and they seem to fit what you are looking for. My S’s favorites were Hiram, Wooster, Ohio Wesleyan and Wittenberg. He didn’t like Denison, Kenyon and U of Dayton for various reasons but you might want to look at them as well.</p>