<p>I've posted before, but I want to get some more advice. I'm trying to find some good colleges I can attend where it is a good match, and I can get some good financial aid and merit aid.</p>
<p>I'm primarily looking for a smaller school, not a big state school, under 5,000 to 10,000 at the maximum. Near or in a city would work, although if it's absolutely amazing I could possibly live in a rural area for college. Would like to keep a distance away from home: at least a few hours away or a plane ride away. I want a distance because I'd like a college experience where I can detach. An overall good college with strong programs all around would work really well for me, seeing as I have no idea what I really want to do. I'm possibly looking into pre-med, social services/work, psychology, or anything really. It depends. I still haven't found an extremely strong interest.</p>
<p>Prestige is also really important: not to me necessarily, but to my parents. If I'm to go out of state, I'm going to need to do some hard convincing and some good cash to pay for the college that I'd like to go to.</p>
<p>I'm currently a junior in a Washington public school. I'm not really sure if the school is competitive. I know that there are some pretty smart kids in my school, but for the most part of what I've seen, most end up going to UW. My first two years of high school were in a pretty competitive Oregon public school.</p>
<p>GRADES
approximate 3.917 unweighted cumulative GPA
approximate 40/503 class rank</p>
<p>3 B's so far:
1 in Health freshman year
2/3 trimesters of AP US History sophomore year (B, B, A trend)</p>
<p>3/6 AP classes junior year
AP Calculus AB: A, projected A
AP Psychology: A, projected A
AP English Literature: A, projected A
Human Anatomy & Physiology: A, projected A
French III: A, projected A
Yearbook: A, A</p>
<p>forecasted 5/6 AP classes senior year
AP English Language
AP Statistics
AP Biology
AP Environmental Science
AP Economics
Yearbook</p>
<p>ACTIVITIES
cross country jv (3 years) - most inspirational
swimming jv (2 years) - stopped due to change in schools and state
Key Club (4 years) - historian last year, vice president next year
Diversity Committee (3 years) - secretary this year, possible vice president
STAND: students against genocide (1 year) - president, started it up
National Honor Society (1 year) - could not automatically go in to NHS junior year because the school's requirement is that you must attend the school for at least a semester.</p>
<p>TESTING</p>
<p>SAT-- MARCH 2007
610 critical reading
660 writing
700 math
(trying to work on these)</p>
<p>I'm probably going to take the ACT in September and retake the SAT in October before applying. I don't do well on standardized tests. It's not as if I do horrible, but I can't be superior in it.</p>
<p>640 on sat u.s. history subject test
4 on AP US History exam
4/5 (projected) on AP Calculus AB
4/5 (projected) on AP Psychology</p>
<p>other stuff to know about me:</p>
<p>volunteering twice a week at a Bodies exhibit this summer
volunteering once a week or more at the local hospital starting this summer</p>
<p>I moved the summer before junior year, and it's changed my life basically. My classes as a junior aren't up to par of what I would be doing, mostly because when I moved and was registering at the new school, it was a bit of a shock and came a bit suddenly, so I was really scatterbrained and wasn't thinking straight. I probably would've added an AP science in there if I wasn't so scatterbrained about moving that August. But moving I would have to say has definitely affected me. It doesn't necessarily mean I'm not ready for change or college, but moving in the middle of high school was a drastic change and has been difficult to say the least.</p>