<p>After basically 2 years of reading these message boards, I figured I might as well post... </p>
<p>I need to find some schools. I'm open to any and all suggestions.</p>
<p>I'm really nothing more than average, but now I'm realizing that I should've tried harder and that this is the year that I'll have to pay for my lack of effort. I'm not saying that I didn't try, but I think I could've done much better than I did.
So I figured that my options are slightly limited at best. I want to go to an Urban school, like NYU, that has a well respected or atleast decent department for journalism, particularily broadcast journalism.
But very importantly, I'm looking for something in a large city that's relatively intertwined with the community.</p>
<p>But back to my "lack of effort" tangent: Here's what I'm looking at:</p>
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<p>Class of 2010
Caucasian Male from Maine
Family is pretty well off financially (I'd like to stay under 45k a year though)
Large Public High School
GPA: 3.2 (has been mostly consistent, junior year was the best. The lowest grade on my transcript is a B-)
SAT (march '09): 1760
ACT (april '09): 27 (11 writing)
Class Rank: Top 40% (65th percentile)</p>
<p>AP Classes: AP English (11th, 12th) AP US history (10th, got a 3) AP Environmental Science (10th, got a 4) AP Biology (10th, got a 3) AP Government (11th) AP Microeconomics (11th) AP Chemistry (11th) AP Psychology (11th) AP Physics (12th) AP Statistics (12th) AP Spanish (12th)</p>
<p>Honors Classes: Honors Algebra 1, Honors Geometry, Honors Algebra 2, Honors Pre-Calculus, Honors Europe History, Honors Spanish 2, Honors Spanish 3, Honors American Civilization</p>
<p>Part Time Job @ Ben & Jerry's (20-25 hours a week)</p>
<p>Junior Varsity Cross Country (7th-12th)
- Co-Captaining this year </p>
<p>Varsity Swimming (9th-12th)
-Captain 08 & 09</p>
<p>Varsity Baseball (8th-12th)</p>
<p>Percussionist in the Concert Band (which requires an audition to get into)
- Was first Chair last Year
- Suggested a method for our fundraiser that we actually used</p>
<p>Volunteered for 50 hours at an Assisted Living Facility during Winter & Spring break of Junior Year</p>
<p>.....And that's it, unfortunatuily.</p>
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<p>I've been looking into Emerson College, and it's basically the only place that's tripped my trigger so far. So I'm open to a lot more suggestions.</p>
<p>Thanks in Advance!</p>