help find a college?

College Search & Selection
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<p>right now, I have about 15 colleges on my list, and there is no way I'm going to write up 15 applications.</p>

<p>sooo i guess i'm going to start over from scratch. in general, what i want to see in college is a place where i can get the best education possible, but without an overcompetitive student body. i guess i'm also looking for a place to have fun in between classes, so maybe a local social scene?</p>

<p>i would also like going to a large university, preferably with at least 3,500 students.</p>

<p>i know its summer break and all, but it would be awesome if someone can respond with a couple of ideas. :)</p>

<p>thanks!</p>

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<p>Large university + social scene = about 900 quadrillion schools. It'll be a lot easier for people to help you if you give more info about what you're looking for and what your stats are like.</p>

<p>Why not try to narrow down the 15 you already have? If you really don't like any of them, which ones are they and what don't you like about them? That will help people make better suggestions.</p>

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<p>3500 students is considered a small university. Some in that range include Tufts, University of Rochester, Bucknell. </p>

<p>When people talk about "large universities", they're talking upwards of 10,000 undergraduates.</p>

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<p>What are your grades, ecs, etc.?</p>

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<p>It would also be helpful if you could state a little bit more about what exactly you'd like in a college along with stats (SAT, GPA, ECs)... where would you like it to be located? Is there a major or several majors you'd like to study? A language which the school must offer for you to consider it? A sport you'd like to participate in?</p>

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<p>ahh sorry for not being specific.</p>

<p>as for grades and etc..</p>

<p>GPA: 4.20 (as of first semester junior year)
SAT: 2030 (retaking)
ACT: 32
ECs:
varsity tennis since frosh year
committee chair at the OHSIRL MUN conference
chinese yoyo (1st place at 3 talent shows, finalist in sean mckinney freestyle competition (shameful insert XD), organized and trained a team to perform in metro portland, teaching job)</p>

<p>Majors: undecided. so far, my courses are preparing me for engineering. -__-</p>

<p>As for my list of schools, my current top three are Rice, Brown, and Stanford. I'm also looking at NYU, Cornell, Northwestern, UCLA, and U Washington.</p>

<p>Schools on my list that I know nothing about - Harvard, Boston, CMU, JHU, UPenn, UIUC</p>

<p>I've only visited Rice, Stanford, and U Washington so I only have a perspective of those schools.</p>

<p>It's easy for me to see what kind of education each school offers - I can just look it up at their respective websites. What I'm most interested in is the student body - which is usually biased in college brochures. Can anyone tell me more about the others I haven't mentioned? (Like, the environment, atmosphere, social scene, etc.)</p>

<p>What else I look for in colleges:
The college must be somewhat close to the east or west coast. i like living near the ocean. :)
I also hope that the general atmosphere is more mellow - people help each other out more than competing/sabotaging each other (i.e. slipping battery acid into a student's coffee so the upper curve is eliminated...)</p>

<p>Feel free to add on or take off colleges from my list. Sorry if this just seems like rambling, but thanks for the help guys!</p>

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<p>Cornell is 6 hours from Boston, in the mountains, and in a rural setting. While it is a beautiful campus, it is nowhere near the coast or the ocean. </p>

<p>And of course, being outside Chicago, Northwestern is even further from an ocean, although the beaches along Lake Michigan are relatively close.</p>