<p>Ok, so long story short. I was planning on going on a college road trip with my cousin and sister at the beginning of August. Medical issues came up and now we have to go in less than a week. I don't have enough time to look into all the colleges I wanted to (online) so I need help from you guys. </p>
<p>I live in Michigan and basically am going to make a college loop between here, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and some East coast depending on where I need to go. With gas prices, I'm trying to hit as many as I can in as short of a distance as I can. Make sense? </p>
<p>So anyways. I've posted here a couple times before, so if this is familiar please forgive me but I'm just REALLY short on time. </p>
<p>I am looking for a smaller LAC (but am open to larger universities as long as they have a some-what small college feel). I want to go into history (preferably ancient history) and then minor in Spanish and Philosophy or Anthropology. </p>
<p>I'd like some matches/reaches/safeties so here's some stats:
-First generation college student white/Hispanic female [mum is from Spain].
-3.72 W, 3.56 UW. [Medical issues junior year.]
-33 ACT.
-Have SAT 2s, but they weren't pretty. Will submit them if I have to.
-Have taken 8 AP tests, but only 3 AP classes.
-Really, really good ECs. Mostly community-activism based including starting a nonprofit girls basketball league. </p>
<p>Please include anything that I should look at when I go visit the colleges that you suggest too. Thanks so much!! You guys are amazing if you help me lol :D.</p>
<p>Carleton college
Grinnell College
Indiana University-Bloomington
Kalamazoo College
Macalester College
Northwestern University
Oberlin College
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p>What areas in the Northeast are you interested in? Upstate New York? PA? MA-CT-NJ? NYC? (Alexandre posted a good list of schools in the Midwest)</p>
<p>There are tons of top LACs in the northeast, most of which will have excellent History programs. You can basically form any sort of loop through New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, where most of the schools are located, and if you want to see others in Maine or something, you can venture out there. I don't have any specific suggestions other than not rushing too much because you want to have enough time at each school to get an understanding of what it's like.</p>
<p>A tour of liberal arts colleges in the Midwest and Northeast alone will take you 2-3 weeks of driving. Are you willing to do this? Why don't you research schools online and visit those that are of particular interest to you?</p>
<p>Thanks. I only have roughly a week for the trip. I'm trying to do the research online but I'm also working all week, so it's not easy. That's why any specific suggestions are great. =].</p>
<p>do you care if campus is urban vs rural vs suburban? any typical 'vibe' on campus, such as preppy, artsy, sporty, school spirit etc? any particular extracurriculars you'd like, such as theater, music, sports, newspaper, radio, etc?</p>
<p>^ Oh, shoot yes thanks for reminding me. I am VERY involved in theater. I have well over 100 tech hours under my belt. I also work at my school theater (it's my job when other companies come in). I would love somewhere that I could continue to do that. </p>
<p>Urban, rural, I've lived in every environment and nothing really bothers me. I've lived in a village that had like 400 people and I've lived in LA. It's all good to me.</p>
<p>As for vibe, I said earlier that I'd love it to be laid-back. Other than that, I'm versatile =] lol. I am artsy, sporty, not- preppy but I can deal, and I can fit in with almost everybody. </p>
<p>I don't want somewhere that everybody's really rich and if you're not they look down on you. I am very poor and am going to be able to pay through colleges only because of scholarships and help from my grandfather, but he is only going to be able to help with tuition.</p>
<p>You really need to look at Beloit College in Wisconsin. They have a strong anthropology department and you would probably qualify for merit scholarships.</p>
<p>You should also consider Northwestern, which has an excellent theater and communications department. It's not a LAC, but its undergraduate student population is 8000. It's strong in the social sciences (sociology, economics, and anthropology) too. </p>
<p>Also look at schools that have merit scholarships.</p>
<p>I agree with the Seven Sisters suggestion.
I'll be attending Mount Holyoke in the fall and I am really, really pleased with the lack of competition on campus - on both of my visits (which included class visits) everyone was willing to share discussion time with one another and there didn't seem to be that cut-throat feeling between students.</p>
<p>I think it's a good idea to visit a woman's college, even if it may not sound too great to you at first. I was really tentative about the lack of boys for a while but then I realized the value of the education that those schools can provide.</p>
<p>I love all of the Seven Sisters schools and it shouldn't be too hard to fit one (or more?) of them into your roadtrip.</p>
<p>By the way, college roadtrips are SOO much fun! Enjoy it! If you're doing a lot of colleges in a short time (which it sounds like you are), I suggest taking pictures to make sure that they don't all blend together in your mind.</p>
<p>Sorry I don't have anything more relevant to say but I read this on CC and it sounded like a really good piece of advice that popped into mind when reading the above post- bring a notebook to write down your initial feelings about the school. It'll probably help distinguish the schools (like ittknee said) and if you have a tough choice deciding what school to got to in the future, it might help to remember what your gut instincts said.</p>
<p>^ I will be in Minnesota later this summer to go visit family. They live less than an hour away from Carleton and Macalester and we already have plans to go =]. </p>
<p>^^ That's actually a really good idea. (The pictures and the notebook.) Thanks guys. =].</p>
<p>And I'm working on narrowing down my searches... but it's slow going. Barnard is the first one off my list because I can't afford it =[.</p>
<p>Do you have a preference for private or public colleges? Don't be so quick to cross out a private college because its tuition is so high. You may qualify for a substantial financial aid award based on need. Most of the colleges we have listed on this thread are PRIVATE.</p>
<p>^ Sorry. I will get some on need-based, but I'm counting on academic based scholarships too. I misread what the poster said though. I thought they said that Barnard offered no financial aid. I was at work and only quick reading. Whoops! Haha.</p>
<p>hey, i'm actually planning a roadtrip through a lot of the same areas. I'm coming from Kansas City, so it's a little different, but a lot of the schools that i'm doing are ones that have been mentioned.</p>
<p>I'm going north to Minnesotta to see Carl and Mac (#3 and #1 on my list right now), then down through Wisc to Illinois to see Knox and Illinois Wesleyan, then east to Ohio for Kenyon and Oberlin (5 and 2 on my list). </p>
<p>i also support the idea of a notebook and camera. good luck college hunting!</p>