Input on Prelim List of LACs

Applying to College
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<h2>Originally posted this in College Search forum and received good feedback. Would like to post here also to see if any additional input. Thanks for your consideration.</h2>

<p>Would appreciate your opinions (or alternatives) to the prelim list of schools son is considering.</p>

<p>Hope this is enough background information to work with:</p>

<p>1) He would like to attend LAC in the East.
2) Currently attends "competetive" public high school in the Midwest.
3) Rigorous coursework (ie 2-3 AP or Honors courses out of 5 core each Sem)
4) 9th grade performance and "C" in AP Math in 10th grade hurts Cumm GPA (3.8 wghtd) and Class Rank (Top 1/3).
5) However, improvement in GPA (with progressively more demanding course choices) – 3.5, 3.8, 3.6, 3.7, 4.2 and 4.2.
6) ACT Composite – 33
7) AP Euro -3, AP U.S.- 4, Math II – 4</p>

<p>Prelim list of schools he is considering:
• Bard
• Bates
• Bowdoin
• Bucknell
• Connecticut College
• Franklin & Marshall
• Gettysburg
• Guilford
• Hamilton
• Kenyon
• Lehigh
• Vanderbilt
• Wake Forest</p>

<p>Comments and/or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,</p>

<p>pmm</p>

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<p>This doesn’t really belong here. You were right to originally post it in the college search forum.</p>

<p>That said, is he a rising senior (looks that way)? The list looks alright to me. Work on those essays. Bard and Vanderbilt seems a bit out of place.</p>

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<p>Closing thread as it is a duplicate and on the wrong forum.</p>