Junior trying to add some more schools to my list...

College Search & Selection
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<p>Ok, it's nearing that time. I need some more match schools, and a few more safeties that are more to my liking, in case financial aid doesn't pan out at the other schools I'm interested in.</p>

<p>Facts about me:
31/650ish rank
3.75 uw/4.3 w (will be higher before application)
223 on PSAT (FL cutoff is 214, so I'll be a contender for Semi-finalist/finalist)
IB Diploma Canidate
2 years of bass guitar in jazz band at school (competitive group)
6 years of bass at church (blahhhh)
3 years section leader of marching band pit
3 years lacrosse (1 year JV, 2 Varsity, awards...)</p>

<p>I will be recruited for lacrosse at Ivy League and academic DIII schools.</p>

<p>As for major, I keep on going between pre-law type stuff, economics/business, and english... </p>

<p>What I'm looking for in a college:
Lacrosse team (not club or intramural)
Northeast (or at least north of Georgia...)
Either a small rural school, or a medium (under 10,000 students) urban school.
Hopefully some gothic buildings...
Some sort of jazz program</p>

<p>What will automatically turn me off to a college:
West Coast
Mid west
A "southern" school
Religious institution</p>

<p>Colleges that I'm looking at:
Amherst
Harvard
Brown
Yale
Dartmouth
Cornell
Princeton
Colgate
Vassar
U Virginia
U Miami
U Florida
Tufts</p>

<p>I really like a clean rural school like Amherst and Colgate.
I love Boston.</p>

<p>What are some other schools I should look into... preferably in the Match and Safety range.</p>

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<p>boston college, even though you dont like religious institutions, it's not really religious. simmons for a safety if you're a girl, maybe northeastern as another safety? and bu.</p>

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<p>Saint Mary's College of Maryland!</p>

<p>Division III Lacrosse team is really good! </p>

<p>It's a small, rural school. The campus is on the water - literally - so sailing is really 'hot' there. It's <em>not</em> a religious school! It's in the town of Saint Mary's, hence the name.</p>

<p>It's one of two public honors colleges in the nation.</p>

<p>Check it out!</p>

<p><a href="http://www.smcm.edu%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.smcm.edu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Kelly (who lives less than an hour from Saint Mary's!)</p>

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<p>Ivy League Lacrosse is all really good- so are you good enough for Johns Hopkins?</p>

<p>JHU seems like a good match</p>

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<p>Hopkins is national champion caliber. I'm a notch below that probably. So, I probably couldn't play on Princeton either. But the rest of the Ivy League is more to my level of playing...</p>

<p>And I'm a guy.</p>