just starting out

College Search & Selection
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<p>I'm a student at a highly ranked IB program entering my junior year. I've started out with my college searching and I'm trying to figure out where I stand/where I should look. </p>

<p>My stats are as follows:
3.57GPA UW, 4.1 W (this includes middle school grades for high school classes, i believe).</p>

<p>PSAT: 203 as a sophomore, (can't remember my score breakdown, but my strengths were in CR and Writing, the second one to a lesser degree</p>

<p>SAT IIs: Math and US History both 770</p>

<p>APs: US gov't & pol. 4, US Hist. and Env. Sci. 5</p>

<p>ECs:
Football (I don't think I'm competitive for recruitment but would nonetheless like to play in college)
Wrestling (to begin this year after football season. I would have started last year but I was healing from a back injury)
Debate
Theatre
Karate (will be black belt by the time I apply)</p>

<p>I'm looking for small- to medium-size schools with strong International Relations and History programs. I have an extensive list of reaches but am lacking much of anything in the way of matches and safeties. </p>

<p>Do you guys have recommendations?
Much obliged.</p>

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<p>Georgetown,
American
George Washington University
Johns Hopkins
Tufts
Columbia</p>

3

<p>some of those are among my reaches, namely Georgetown, Tufts, and Hopkins. I’m getting a rather expansive list which I hope to narrow down over the course of the next year</p>

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<p>Be very aware of financial considerations. If you are going to need financial aid, make sure you have a range of schools and check which ones meet 100 percent of demonstrated need. Just because you may need financial aid and have a low EFC doesn’t mean all schools will meet that need.</p>

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<p>I’m expecting to get little to nothing in the way of financial aid. Finances won’t be a factor in applying, but I appreciate scholarship money as much as the next fellow.</p>

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<p>Also look into Dickinson and University of Rochester.</p>

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<p>I’ll add those to the list of considerations</p>