making my final list!!!!! but i need some help please...

College Search & Selection
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<p>hey guys, ill try not to make this a chances thread, so ill only post up the most important things.</p>

<p>ACADEMICS</p>

<p>3.65 UW/4.6 W (very, very high upward trend)
Top 8-15% in class of 950
2250 SAT (first time)
National Merit Commended, Hispanic Recognized
SAT II- USH (770), German (800)
National Honors Society</p>

<p>EXTRAS</p>

<p>3 years varsity tennis (captain)
3x Regional Qualifier and District Champion
Top 60 in state</p>

<p>President Spanish Club
3x State Spanish Symposium Qualifier
Vice President World Affairs Council
Co-Founder Students for Africa Foundation and Drive for Life Organizer</p>

<p>Volunteered for 3 weeks in Kenya at an orphanage through a school project
Participant at Junior State at Yale
Speak 4 languages fluently
Half-Hispanic</p>

<p>THE SCHOOLS</p>

<p>I'm looking to narrow this list down to about 8 schools and I might apply ED somewhere but i don't know where yet. Im looking into majoring in international relations or economics and maybe even both</p>

<p>TUFTS
JOHNS HOPKINS
BOSTON COLLEGE
GEORGE WASHINGTON
GEORGETOWN
AMERICAN
MIDDLEBURY
U VIRGINIA (OOS)
YALE
COLUMBIA
CLAREMONT MCKENNA
DAVIDSON
BOWDOIN
COLGATE
MACALESTER
BOSTON U
RICE
OXFORD
U ST. ANDREWS
CAMBRIDGE</p>

<p>I have several other safeties lined up. </p>

<p>Thanks a lot!!!!!</p>

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<p>What are you looking for in a college experience. Most of these are top schools but they are different. Middlebury and Columbia? BU and Bowdoin? I don't get it.</p>

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<p>i'm basically looking for strong IR/economics fields. plus, im extremely easy to please and ive visited all those schools except for CMK, St. Andrews and Macalester and i loved them all, so personal preference shouldn't be a problem. with size, too me it doesnt matter as long as its not a gigantic school like UCLA and Texas which have like 50,000 kids.</p>

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<p>These are mostly good schools. But remember in most cases the overall reputation of the school is much more important than program rank (rare exception are Gtown and Tufts)</p>

<p>That said, how can you like Middlebury and columbia? Getting to be happy is one of the privliges of going to a top school. So choose what type of school you want and pick a range of schools in the top 25.</p>

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<p>idk im weird, its just that i live in texas and cant wait to get out haha. thanks for the advice btw</p>

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<p>anyone else??</p>

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<p>You can only apply to Oxford or Cambridge, not both. If you are going to apply you only have 13 days in which to get your application to them. Deadline 20th Sept. St Andrews deadline is much later though. January for EU students but I don't know about internationals.</p>