<p>H'okay, so after looking through colleges all I can seem to find are really big reach colleges/universities, and if I want to go out-of-state, I need good financial aid and merit aid with my stats. PLEASE recommend some to me, I really need help finding some I would enjoy and be interested in.</p>
<p>I want a smaller school, preferably under 5,000-10,000 (think Rice University's undergraduate size but opportunities of a university). Preferably on the west coast, but if it's decent weather (I am used to NW weather) and a good city (preferably in a city.... not too small a town. At LEAST a decent suburb). Prestige is also a bit important (for parents...), but please. I really need some recommendations.</p>
<p>Here are my stats:</p>
<p>I'm currently a junior in a Washington public school. I'm not really sure if the school is competitive. I know that there are some pretty smart kids in my school, but for the most part of what I've seen, most end up going to UW. Someone said a few years ago a girl was accepted into MIT, and this year someone was accepted to UC Berkeley (but is going to UW on a full scholarship and internship). My first two years of high school were in a pretty competitive Oregon public school.</p>
<p>GRADES
approximate 3.917 unweighted cumulative GPA
approximate 40/503 class rank
(I don't know how updated this would be by the end of this year...)</p>
<p>3 B's so far:
1 in Health freshman year
2/3 trimesters of AP US History sophomore year (B, B, A trend)</p>
<p>3/6 AP classes currently
AP Calculus AB
AP Psychology
AP English Literature
Human Anatomy & Physiology
French III
Yearbook</p>
<p>forecasted 5/6 AP classes senior year
Peer Mentoring
AP English Language
AP Statistics
AP Biology
AP Physics (MIGHT be Environmental Science. Opinion to which one?)
AP Economics
Yearbook</p>
<p>I think I will drop yearbook though, so I have a 0 period of Peer Mentoring and 5 AP classes for the day.</p>
<p>ACTIVITIES
cross country jv (3 years) - most inspirational
swimming jv (2 years) - stopped due to change in schools and state
Key Club (4 years) - historian last year, vice president next year
Diversity Committee (3 years) - secretary this year and probably next year
STAND/Amnesty club (1 year) - president, starting it up for senior year
National Honor Society (1 year) - could not automatically go in to NHS junior year because the school's requirement is that you must attend the school for at least a semester.</p>
<p>TESTING</p>
<p>SAT-- MARCH 2007
610 critical reading
660 writing
700 math
(trying to work on these)</p>
<p>I'm probably going to take the ACT in September and retake the SAT in October for my applications. I'm hoping to do better or around the same area, and I think I probably will. But I don't know how better.</p>
<p>640 on SAT US History subject test
4 on AP US History exam
4/5 (projected) on AP Calculus AB
4/5 (projected) on AP Psychology</p>
<p>other stuff to know about me:
I moved the summer before junior year, and it's changed my life basically. My classes as a junior aren't up to par of what I would be doing, mostly because when I moved and was registering at the new school, it was a bit of a shock and came a bit suddenly, so I was really scatterbrained and wasn't thinking straight. I probably would've added an AP science (Bio) in there if I wasn't so scatterbrained about moving that August.</p>
<p>As for a major and career, I am completely undecided. I've SOMEWHAT narrowed it down to pre-med or some type of social work. Or psychology. But hey, anything could go. I really have no clue, but these are possibilities.</p>
<p>I really enjoy just helping people. So that's what I want to do.</p>
<p>If you can recommend any colleges that would give me pretty decent merit aid (enough to notch the tuition down to in-state UW tuition), and matches my interests in a college, please recommend them. I would really like some help so I can research and start applying over the summer!</p>
<p>The colleges I want to apply to right now are:</p>
<p>UWashington (safety for in-state. But I DON'T want to go here.)
Scripps College
Pitzer College
Stanford University
Rice University</p>
<p>(as you can see, these are reaches....)</p>
<p>PLEASE! :D</p>