Hah! Colleges...

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Hm, okay, so it's like, practically December already, and I HAVE NOT PICKED A COLLEGE. omogmomg, right? lol. Well, I mean, not only have I not picked out a college, I don't even have a list of colleges! D:
Mk, so, I am turning to you, my faithful CCer's, to help me out :]</p>

<p>Here's what I want out of a college, kind of, although I really honestly don't know what I want, and I kiiiind of don't really want to go to college at all... lol.</p>

<p>Okay, so, let's make the college NOT in Georgia.</p>

<p>[[[[Oh, and I've already applied to UGA honors, Emory, Mercer (ew right, but it was free, and ... yeah), and Oxford at Emory... I am already planning to apply to Vanderbilt (which is where I had kind of somewhat decided that I wanted to go, but now I dunno, and I have no clue anymore) and had halfway thought about Georgetown]]]]</p>

<p>I don't really want to go to college like RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE of a city, but I do want to be close enough to a city that I could get there pretty quickly and easily <--- Hmm maybe because I want a nice campus? Lol, or at least for it to be close to somewhere not-city-ish and pretty.</p>

<p>Hm, I don't want to go to college that close to home, really, so it doesn't matter how far away it is, I suppose. </p>

<p>Okay, for majors and whatnot... ummm... yeah not a clue. For some reason, my mom [and everybody else?] was under the impression that I wanted to major/minor in music or piano performance or something along those lines. HOWEVERRRR I am so so so not interested in taking any of the silly classes that go into that [theory and really any other music class at all] because I honestly just want to play piano for fun and stuff like that. Yeaaah, I would like to have a college though that at least has a music-y program, because I play the viola too and would like to [but wouldn't be crushed if I couldn't] play in an orchestra or chamber group or something.
I suck at science and stuff like that [no really. I do - except for theoretical physics! Bahahaha] and am not really interested in it either.
I do like political-y stuff, like economics and int. relations and gov't and [dare I say.. history!?!??] whatnot. Hmm, and I'm quite good at math stuff, and even if I didn't major in a math-related field, I'd love to take a few more advanced math courses in college.
Uhhhhhhh basically I would probably like to major in anything really, except medical/science/stuff like that. </p>

<p>MK this post is super long, sorry - but here I'll put in some of my academic-y stats just to give a feel for what kind of college I can get into.</p>

<p>GPA - Unweighted: 3.97
GPA - Weighted: 4.47
Class Rank: top 5 students
Class Size: 638</p>

<p>Scores:
SAT I Critical Reading: 740
SAT I Math: 800
SAT I Writing: 760
Total: 1540/1600, 2300/2400
And I'm taking SAT II's in Math II, Lit, and Latin on Dec 6.</p>

<p>Bleh, well I dunno what else, but recommend some colleges for me pleeeease :]</p>

<p>[YES THIS IS IN THE HSL FORUM I KNOWWWWW]</p>

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<p>The Pokemon/Mario Dual-Joint College of Amsterdam, Massachusetts.</p>

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<p>^I don't like you chlowasvoeyruable</p>

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<p>Hogwarts Graduate School.</p>

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<p>Stanford and Princeton fit the campus requirements nicely. Northwestern has good music programs, IIRC, and Evanston isn't really a city (i.e. is a wealthy suburb).</p>

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<p>Their Charms and Divination programs are very poor.</p>

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<p>^LOL you all are silly, and thanks amciw for actually being serious - I have actually looked at both Stanford and Princeton pretty seriously and would probably love either of them.</p>

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<p>I doubt they would suit your interests, Hogwarts has excellent Arithmetic professors. They are muggles that we coerced into working at Hogwarts instead of MIT or Harvard.
Indeed we are but a 20 minute broomstick's flight from Hogsmeade. Stanford fails with their wheeled contraptions.</p>

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<p>Haha, you should post this in Search & Selection. We're too sarcastic for this. Well, I am anyway. Do you like any of the DC area colleges? Those seem like they would fit your requirements well. I'm thinking about any that are in Virginia, DC, or Maryland.</p>

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<p>^haha, I know, but I would think that people in HSL have a better feel for what I want out of a college, beyond whatever crap I'm posting in the thread, lol.
I would probably like Georgetown a lot, but I feel like the area is kind of too urban for my taste.</p>

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<p>Georgetown isn't that urban. Nice overlook some area.</p>

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Georgetown isn't that urban.

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Thus why I said kind of too urban.</p>

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Nice overlook some area.

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wut</p>

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<p>Georgetown is right on the edge of the city, and it has a fenced in campus. Also, Georgetown (the place) doesn't feel like a skyscraper-dirty-city. It feels like a lot of residential areas squished together.</p>

<p>PLus you could always visit Dumbarton Oaks, the park at Glen Echo, the canal, etc. for outdoorsy type things.</p>

<p>(Er, yeah. I go to school next door to Gtown, if that wasn't obvious...)</p>

<p>There are tons of reasons to not go to Georgetown, but I don't know if you've visited, and it doesn't feel as urban to me as I thought it would.</p>

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<p>Yea, Stanford has a godly campus.</p>

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<p>What kind of size(s) are you looking for? Are liberal arts colleges out?</p>

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<p>Stanford has a godly campus. Definitely should be your number one pick.
Princeton being second.</p>

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<p>You definitely should apply, then.</p>

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<p>Stanford has a godly campus. Definitely should be your number one pick.
Princeton being second.</p>

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<p>Hmm, Lima, I haven't visited Georgetown, like, gone on a tour of the school and campus and whatnot, but I've been through Georgetown the PLACE and loved that, and thought that I could definitely like the school [but alas, did not tour it or anything].. oh - what are your big reasons not to go there? lol</p>

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What kind of size(s) are you looking for? Are liberal arts colleges out?

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Eh, is it too cliche to say "not too big, not too small"? Haha. My HS has like 4000 students, and I wouldn't even feel right going to a college smaller than that, lol, but I'm not a fan of the colleges with like 30,000 undergrads either. 5-10K-ish students would be fine.</p>

<p>edit - Oh, and LACs are not entirely out, but they're prolly not my first choice.</p>