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College Search & Selection
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<p>MATCH ME PLUS GIVE ME SOME REACHES!</p>

<p>History Major and maybe film studies?</p>

<p>White male, rural public highschool (>30% go onto non-community college education, Avg SAT~<1000)</p>

<p>Taking all APs and Mult.Var. Calc at U. of Delaware </p>

<p>Rank 2/240 , GPA (~99%)</p>

<p>SAT I: 2340 (800 CR, 800 M, 740 WR) </p>

<p>Subject Tests: 800 US History, 720 Literature, 750+ (shooting for 800) on IIC when I take in January</p>

<p>APs that I've taken (highschool only offers four; I'm taking three this year, one last year): APUSH: 5
But I have 16 credits in college math </p>

<p>Activities (Note: only the important ones. I am a member of Key Club, Honor Society, etc...a bunch of filler): Math League (9-12), Newspaper Staff (Editor-in-Chief), Skateboarding Club (Founder/President; organized several skateboarding competitions and started antismoking campaign)
Comcast Academic Challenge Quiz Bowl (Captain), Debate Club(Vice President), Student Film Society (Vice President), and making a documentary about my town (involves a lot of historical research; should be good since I want to major in history), Science Olympiad, Mentoring Autistic Kids (11-12) </p>

<p>Awards</p>

<p>Academic...
Michael C. Ferguson Scholar (11)
A **** ton of "Highest grade in [insert subject]"
A lot of other generic sh#t, won't waste your time with it</p>

<p>Essays+Recs Solid, English teacher called essay "great piece of work". Stresses how skateboarding taught me to deal with failure+set goals (skateboarding club is only really "quirky" activity and I spend about 10+ hrs a week on it) </p>

<p>MATCH ME PLUS GIVE ME SOME REACHES!</p>

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<p>strong in history and film:
USC
UCLA
NYU
Berkeley
Northwestern
U Michigan Ann Arbor
U Texas Austin</p>

<p>strong in history:
Yale
Princeton
Harvard
Stanford
Columbia
U Chicago
Johns Hopkins
U Wisconsin Madison
Cornell
U Penn
Brown
UVA
UNC Chapel Hill
Indiana U Bloomington
Duke
U Maryland College Park
Rutgers New Brunswick
Amherst
Bates
Bowdoin
Carleton
Colgate
Dickinson
Grinnell
Hamilton
Haverford
Lafayette
Macalester
Middlebury
Oberlin
Pomona
Reed
Swarthmore
Vassar
Wesleyan
Williams</p>

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<p>Harvard
Yale
Stanford
Cal Tech
MIT
Princeton
Brown
Columbia
Amherst
Dartmouth
Wellesley
U Penn
U Notre Dame
Swarthmore
Cornell
Georgetown
Rice
Williams
Duke
U Virginia
Northwestern
Pomona
Berkeley
Georgia Tech
Middlebury
Wesleyan
U Chicago
Johns Hopkins
USC
Furman
UNC
Barnard
Oberlin
Carleton
Vanderbilt
UCLA
Davidson
U Texas
NYU
Tufts
Washington & Lee
U Michigan
Vassar
Grinnell
U Illinois
Carnegie Mellon
U Maryland
William & Mary
Bowdoin
Wake Forest
Claremont
Macalester
Colgate
Smith
U Miami
Haverford
Mt Holyoke
Connecticut College
Bates
Kenyon
Emory
Washington U
Occidental
Bryn Mawr
SMU
Lehigh
Holy Cross
Reed College
RPI
Florida State
Colby
UCSB
GWU
Fordham
Sarah Lawrence
Bucknell
Catholic U
U Colorado
U Wisconsin
Arizona State
Wheaton (Il)
Rose Hulman
UCSC
Boston U
UCSD
Tulane
U Richmond
CWRU
Trinity College
Colorado College
Indiana U
Penn State
American U
Hamilton
U Washington
U Rochester
Lewis & Clark
Wheaton (MA)
Clark
Skidmore
Purdue
Colorado State
Syracuse</p>

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<p>BTW </p>

<p>Brown & Wesleyan are both strong in both Hist & Film. Both schools would probably appreciate and welcome your quirkiness too.</p>

<p>What sort of environment appeals to you (Big U, LAC, region, etc?)</p>

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<p>Environment -- I know this sounds lame -- really isn't a huge issue with me...I live in a rural area, so being in the middle of nowhere wouldn't be a huge jump, and living in a city would be a...new experience. I don't care if it's LAC...just not some gigantic state U. School should be on the East Coast so I don't abandon my family.</p>

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<p>Bump^^^^^^^^^</p>

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<p>Howdy d3ity. Nice SAT scores ;-).</p>

<p>PS And nice everything else too.</p>

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<p>People are suggesting so many different schools that are way below you. It looks great to come from a rural public school with low avg SAT scores, and have not only a great GPA, but also almost perfect SAT's. You have plenty of EC's and leadership also. I think you have a great chance for the best colleges in the country - all of the Ivy Leagues, Duke, Stanford, Chicago, Northwestern, etc. You should be happy at almost any of these, and any school at that level will have an excellent history department. </p>

<p>Make sure you add two safeties with SAT ranges around 1250-1350.</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>

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<p>Haha s'vrone. You're a November SATer; that bond is thick as blood!</p>

<p>Thanks for the input, guys.</p>

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<p>Consider a community college.</p>

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<p>I'm going to recommend Wesleyan University; I'm a student here, so I'm pretty biased. It's definitely got that small liberal arts school thing going on, but it's also large enough to not be boring - to have a lot going on. Our film department is reputedly amazing and basically one of our prized departments - the alumni network post-graduation is supposed to be ridiculous... people talk about it on this thread: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=115519%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=115519&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Our history department is also pretty great, but that's more standard among liberal arts schools. We definitely have a politically "liberal" and "quirky" vibe, but it's not overwhelming... We also have some funky skateboarding spots.</p>

<p>I had similar stats - SATs were a little higher, grades a bit lower, EIC of the paper, mentored an austitic child, and had leadership roles in various clubs. I applied early decision and got in. I think you'd have a great shot at getting accepted.</p>

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<p>Bump....................</p>