<p>I applied ED to Cornell ILR but am kind of at a loss for safeties. Any suggestions would be great. </p>
<p>GPA (weighted)-99.98
SATs-2250
SAT II's- bio-640, history-660, math II-750</p>
<p>I've taken all honors classes, and AP US last year. I'm in all AP's this year, am getting A's in all of them except calculus (low B... reaaaallly hard)</p>
<p>EC- one of the founder's/VP of school's debate team
President of International Relations Club
10 years of piano
drama club
student council</p>
<p>Study Abroad in France/Canada-cummulative 3 months</p>
<p>Work Experience-about 8 months at a grocery store, and a couple weeks as an office assistant at a law firm during the summer.</p>
<p>I'm not really sure what I'm looking for so I'm really having trouble. I don't think I want to go to school in New York (Cornell was an exception because I LOOOVEEDDDDD the School of Industrial Labor Relations). I really enjoy history but I don't want to be a history major because I want to be assured a career right out of college, economics is probably what I would major in. I don't want to go to a very small school, but I don't care if it's in a city or not, as long as it has a campus.</p>
<p>I was told that I should look into liberal arts colleges, but I don't really understand what the difference is between a liberal arts school and a university.</p>
<p>a liberal arts college is usually a close-knit school where people tend to major in the humanities.</p>
<p>universities are, by definition, made up of several colleges (such as college of science, college of nusiness, college of arts etc.) theya re usually much larger.</p>
<p>public universities are much cheaper instate</p>
<p>I suggest looking into Holy Cross. Holy Cross is a small liberal arts college that was founded by the Georgetown Jesuits in 1843. It is the only Jesuit school in the country that is strictly undergraduate which means all professors are PhDs (i.e. no grad students teaching). There was an article recently in the Boston Globe about Harvard students complaining about having little to no access to professors and only being able to interact with graduate assistants. With small class sizes and no grad students at HC, you have lots of access to your professors. HC is less than a hour from Boston, Providence, and Cape Cod and just a couple hours to Vermont/NH so you are near a lot of great activities. Unlike a lot of colleges which are in the middle of nowhere (such as Cornell). Also good sports teams. Basketball team went to the NCAA Divison 1 basketball tournament last year and their football team is likely to win the Patriot League title (Division 1-AA).</p>
<p>a liberal arts college is a school that focuses on undergraduate education, often (but not always) at the expense of graduate schools - that is, most LACs don't have graduate schools at all. they are usually quite small (average below 2,000 students in total). if you compare top-level LACs with top-level universities, you will notice two significant trends: smaller faculty-student ratios and larger endowment-per-student ratios. most LACs don't have graduate programs (exceptions include Tufts, Bryn Mawr).</p>
<p>that said, I can name plenty of great LACs but none that would be a safety school for anyone. in addition, most of them are really small as I said.</p>