<p>Alright, I seriously need help with my college list.</p>
<p>I go to a moderately competitive private HS. I live in Virginia, I am female and white with dual citizenship for the US and England.
GPA: 3.8/4.1
SAT: CR: 700 W: 650 M: 480 (total 1180/1830)
Honors classes, Spanish and Chem at CC
Top 5% of my class (approximately, school doesn't rank, this is what my counselor said though)
ECs:
Debate
Co-Founder of STATIC Film Society in my town
Student Senate
Class Representative
Scuba Diving (working towards the Dive Master certification)
Motorcycle License
Showjumping at the international level, and am very highly ranked nationally and internationally. </p>
<p>I graduated early (got the credits and the school said I had to graduate once I had the credits) and I am taking a year off. I spent the last 2 months in China doing volunteer work in Ya'an and other areas of central China.</p>
<p>I will not require financial aid.</p>
<p>I am interested in East Asian Studies, Political Science and Creative Writing. (For Creative Writing I have won SKOW Awards if that is of any weight at all.)</p>
<p>I can get very good recommendations from my teachers, my math teacher (hopefully with augument my crappy math score... my coursework has always been very good with her) and my english teacher have already offered to write me great recs. Writing is my strong point so I think I can have good essays.</p>
<p>I am planning on taking the SAT again in January, and the ACT in February, which I understand some schools do still accept?</p>
<p>I applied ED to Skidmore but was deferred, and now I am desperately trying to find schools that I can get into- I think I must be boring and unimpressive on paper.</p>
<p>My list looks something like this right now:</p>
<p>Match:
Allegheny College (They have been sending me an email every other day trying to get me to apply with their Presidential Application thing.)
American University
Bard College (no SAT scores)
Franklin and Marshall College
Hampshire College</p>
<p>Safety:
Arcadia University
Washington College
George Mason University </p>
<p>Reach:
Bowdoin (No SAT)
(Maybe? I might not bother applying to a reach...)</p>
<p>I'm open to going pretty much anywhere, although I do like the Northeast. I would prefer a non-preppy campus with a decent indy/alternative/punk rock music scene. Diversity is good as well, although I can handle it if it isn't that diverse and has a bit of a preppy scene. Campus should definitely be more liberal than conservative, and I would prefer no-denomination, or if it is affiliated with a religion for it not to be pushy. I don't have an issue with religion, but I'm agnostic and that isn't going to change, so I'd rather not go to somewhere heavily religious. </p>
<p>Any help would be greatly appreciated!</p>