if UCR is a safety (i’ll ask my advisors about this too lol, don’t wanna be too confident) i think i’ll only apply to one CSU as a safety because i want to focus more on UCs and QB schools. and i ran a really rough ASU estimate and i thought the price was a bit high too lol.
previously i wasn’t really into women’s colleges but i heard bryn mawr was very accepting so i expanded my horizons a little bit, i also like barnard :]
i wrote that list here:
oh, good point. thank you!
LOL, I meant “two more beside those you already listed” 
Make sure to have 2 safeties.
Applying to CSUs takes very little time. UCs are a bit more intricate but one app serves them all. So you could pick UCR (yes, with your weighted GPA, it IS :p, I think someone even posted the odds overall for your GPA and your choice of major is not CS or Engineering so you’re good!) and at least one from Sac State, Sonoma, and Chico, applying to the Honors Program (again: not onerous at all).
QB is going to be very time-consuming and difficult, for sure. In terms of how much you need to do for the app, if doing nothing is 0 and Stanford is 10, CSUs are 1, UCs are 3, and QB is 10.
OHHH I’m so sorry lol. these are the main schools that i’m looking at right now, but Haverford? and maybe Wesleyan? i plan to do more research this summer into most of the partners. i’m not super into most of the other partners though.
ahh glad to hear, I really want to spend more time on my QB application. thank you !!
So, wait. You’re FGLI and you’re parents know what a LAC is? 
Yup, spend some time looking into those QB partners and finding good places for you 
Definitely second Wesleyan. (Plus it’s a “university” and it’s got some recognized grad programs so it may be more palatable to your parents).
My general point was that applying to 1, 2 or 3 CSUs isn’t going to take much time (and, assuming you get a fee waiver, there’s no reason to limit yourself to just one; since CSUs will only be affordable with a scholarship, which you can’t rely on - they don’t cover R&B - applying to 2 or 3 maximizes your odds of having an affordable safety in addition to UCR). If all goes well, you will not need UCR OR ANY CSU honors program and scholarship, but… deploy the safety net first, launch next and fly high if you wish. 
Applying to their respective Honors Colleges will be a bit more time consuming but consider it practice for QB. The Honors college essays, when relevant, will force you to play with and refine your ideas ahead of time. Get those done early, even if the deadline’s not for a long time.
Then, July and on: QB.
Yes, I was going to point that out. So often the English word, “college” does not translate well in other languages. Many times it is used to denote a school of secondary education and creates a bias against American LACs most of whom were established before the widespread adoption of the German model of a university devoted to post baccalaureate research and in a time when the terms college and university were used interchangeably. Wesleyan started calling itself a university from the time of its founding in 1831.
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edit: this included Dartmouth. not like i liked it anyways.
sorry to ask this but when does the application open? the CSU applications seem quite straightforward from what i’ve seen though.
Would it help if you showed him a list of famous/important people who graduated from a LAC? You want to major in PolySci, so maybe ambassadors, government officials, famous journalists etc?
What about Harvard College? St John’s College at Oxford?
Or are they only worth considering because they’re attached to a university (a consortium of colleges and faculties)?
college and university are both 大学 in chinese as far as i know, i think my parents think LACs aren’t as good because there aren’t grad students or a grad presence on campus. not sure what’s the logic behind it though ?? hopefully if i tell them that pomona college ranked 7th by business insider ? i think in 2019 …
maybe… but hopefully they’ll understand that this is my college process, i’ll do it the way i think will help me. if not we’ll go from there.
Did your parents immigrate from a country where “college” often refers to something like a community college (e.g. Canada), or even a high school?
no, they came from China. both have bachelor’s degrees from Chinese universities.
Of the 45 Questbridge partners, the following have also appeared on Princeton Review’s list of LGBTQ friendly colleges at least once since 2014: Bowdoin, Brown, Carleton, Columbia, Grinnell, Macalester, Oberlin, Rice, Scripps, Stanford, U of Chicago, Vassar, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Yale.
I could be wrong, but I always thought First Gen referred to first in family to attend college. Are you looking for a way to express the fact you were the first to be born in the United States?
yes, for colleges which factor that in, first gen = first generation to attend a 4-year college and receive a degree. (Community college or dropping out are considered as “not receiving a 4-year degree”).
Definitions vary, but a common definition of “first generation [to college]” is that neither of the student’s parents has earned a bachelor’s degree. However, some colleges (e.g. some community colleges) define it as neither of the student’s parents has attended any college.
that sounds great !! i need to look more into Vassar and Wellesley specifically.