Good School for Me...?

College Search & Selection
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<p>Hi everyone! I'm a junior in high school and am taking the SATs, ACTs and I'm pretty sure the SAT IIs as well. I get mostly A's, have taken/am taking 4 APs so far, am the captain of my soccer team and am in a few clubs. I'm really nervous about the standardized tests so I'm going to get a tutor or take classes, even though that didn't really help my brother.</p>

<p>I know it's early but I'm trying to find schools with great athletics, lots of spirit, lots of involvement/student activities, good academics and a nice college town or city. I've already been recruited for soccer by one school but I'm not interested in it. I haven't visited any of these, but so far my list is (with the starred schools most interested in)...</p>

<p>Wisconsin*
Michigan*
Pittsburgh*
Vanderbilt*
U Penn (a girl on my team who is like me got recruited for soccer)
North Carolina Chapel Hill*
Northeastern
Colorado at Boulder
UCLA
Illinois
Indiana
Clemson
Boston College
Cornell
Berekely</p>

<p>What should I do to increase my chances of getting into these schools? How do I know if I'm a good candidate? What other schools would you reccomend? Thanks so much!</p>

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<p>Northeastern for sports? no way, I live in Boston, that is a terrible college to go to, the co-op program makes it impossible to have a social life.</p>

<p>I’d recommend Clemson or Virginia or UNC</p>

<p>Ohter great schools are Oklahoma (getting better every year), Washington, Virginia Tech, Michigan, UC-Berkeley, UCLA, Pittsburgh, Indiana, Florida state, Texas A&M, Purdue, and NC State</p>

<p>those are the schools with great athletics and great social life.</p>

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<p>I’d drop UCLA, Berkeley, Illinois, and Northeastern. Add Virginia and Kansas.</p>

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<p>Kansas? that school is terrible compared to the other one’s on her list</p>

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<p>I agree with pierre0913, Northeastern is awful. I would defintely go for Virgina, North Carolina, Michigan . Good Luck!</p>

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<p>Pierre, I think you’re confusing Kansas with some other Midwestern state universities. Kasnsas’s US News peer assessment score is about the same as Boston U, Tulane, George Washington U., Syracuse, etc.</p>

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<p>that is true but does Kansas belong on the list when she already has some safety schools?</p>

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<p>Oh I didn’t know the co-op program was THAT bad. I’m thinking of doing marketing or business for a major but I’m pretty much undecided as of now. </p>

<p>Ohh I didn’t know Oklahoma was getting better. </p>

<p>What about Vanderbilt & Cornell? How do I know if they’re reaches for me, assuming I don’t get recruited? </p>

<p>I think you all are right, the state schools are looking good! And Virginia looks like a great school.</p>

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<p>I’m not saying that the co-op program is bad, it just is hard to have a social life, but you do get great job experience</p>

<p>However, Northeastern does not fit your criteria of a school with school spirit, athletics, and good academics (only good thing is co-op which is outside of class)</p>

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<p>What about Delaware? It looks like a nice school.</p>

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<p>Drop</p>

<p>Northeastern University Huskies
University of California at Berkley Golden Bears
University of Pittsburgh Panthers
UCLA Bruins</p>

<p>Add</p>

<p>University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish
University of North Carolina Tar Heels
University of Virgina Cavilers
Duke University Blue Devils</p>

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<p>you can’t drop Pitt haha, I’m going there next year!</p>

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<p>UNC, though I doubt you could play soccer there. It’s got a great college town (whoot Franklin Street!), more school spirit than any school I’ve ever seen, and it’s a good academic school too.</p>

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<p>Add University of Delaware, it has great athletics and is really moving up in the ranks.</p>

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<p>Notre Dame? Isn’t that a Christian school? </p>

<p>What’s wrong with Pittsburgh? </p>

<p>Oh and what about Oregon?</p>

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<p>Notre Dame is a catholic university, might be a bad match for a non-catholic.</p>

<p>Pittsburgh is a great school in a great city. Keep it.</p>

<p>Don’t go to Oregon, academics are not a strong point</p>

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<p>Is Pittsburgh very spirited though?</p>

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<p>I actually live and go to school right by CU Boulder, so I might be able to answer some more specific questions about it, though by no means am I applying there (way too close).</p>

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<p>any school with top 20 football and basketball teams obviously has great school spirit…</p>

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<p>Hey Cider, I was wondering how strong academics are at CU Boulder? It’s an amazingly beautiful campus, but does it have spirit and happy students? Thanks so much!</p>