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Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Okay, so hi.</p>

<p>I want to go to college.</p>

<p>Here's the thing: I've never cured cancer, volunteered at a hospital 22 hours a day saving African children. I have good (2210) SAT scores and okay grades (88 average, ranked pretty low in my class, probably around 50/300)</p>

<p>I have no interest in going to OMG TEH HARVARD or anything, but i want to go to a good school with smart people and more to life than getting wasted 24/7.</p>

<p>I like to learn, but I really don't like playing stupid games to get better grades, and I certainly don't want to screw over other people to get a better rank or anything. My relationships with teachers varies - some think I'm evil and out to destroy all that is cute and fluffy, and others love me because they think I'm smart and creative and such. As such, my grades go all over the place, from a 73 in spanish to a 97 in AP Chem (which I got a five on!)</p>

<p>What is a good school for people like me? I really like to learn, and I wouldn't mind a demanding courseload. I just don't really care for the college admissions game.</p>

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<p>Big or small? Urban or rural? What part of the country? etc.</p>

<p>You're an excellent student with great scores. There are a TON of schools for people like you.</p>

<p>What year are you? Have you spoken with your GC?</p>

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<p>finally someone like me..</p>

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<p>haha what's wrong with your grades? better than a lot of people's, i think cc is just a special place with a ton of overachievers.</p>

<p>most of the kids from my school are asian/indian with like a 4.8 and all APs. blech.</p>

<p>but anyways, what's your gpa? what have you done out of school?</p>

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<p>Amen to that dude</p>

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<p>Hmm... I want to go to a small school with an actual campus, but preferably near a relatively urban area.</p>

<p>I'd also like a school with a decent science program that's not specifically a tech school.</p>

<p>My GPA is 88.6. We don't get anything on a 4 point scale. Outside of school, I do a few extracurriculars like the newspaper and acedemic team (quiz bowl).</p>

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<p>k. do you want a school with a lot of research or something thats more liberal artsy based?</p>

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<p>Ehh, no real preference. I'd like to go to grad school, so I suppose that would be more research-inclined, but I'm mostly interested in a smallish school for undergrad.</p>

<p>I'd like to major in biochemistry, just fyi.</p>

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<p>Lewis and Clark in Portland maybe. It has a gorgeous residential campus, it's small, but downtown Portland is only a few minutes away. The kids are serious about academics too.</p>

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<p>Trinity in Hartford, CT. Maybe.</p>

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<p>Williams College is something you may want to consider. It is pretty selective, so your rank may keep you out, but it's worth a look into. I'd recommend something else, but I don't know any other colleges :O I just know it because my brother goes there.</p>

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<p>Williams is probably out of reach if you've gotten grades like a 73 in spanish, Williams is awfully tough.</p>

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<p>What about Emory or NYU?</p>

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<p>What about Juniata?</p>

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<p>more mid-sized than small, but SMU and TCU are both good schools with nice campuses in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. Worth a look.</p>

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<p>i guess it depends on the kind of graduate work you want to do, but these two are good for anything:</p>

<p>if you want to do med school, try occidental college, in LA. they have a program where you go there for 3 years, then go to med school at yale [cause they have hookups or something] and then after you're done with med school, you graduate with a degree from both yale and occidental. even if you don't want to do medical school, they have a lot of research opportunities where they actually pay you to go and team up with a professor and do research, and then present it to the school. i know a girl who went there and she had done so much that she co-authored a book with a professor. obviously, thats something that looks good on grad school apps.</p>

<p>loyola marymount university is also in LA, and they have biochem. they're really good with getting people internships, which is probably something you should be concerned with since you are doing the sciences. for that reason, i'd stay away from small schools in the middle of nowhere [like those colleges that are surrounded by meadows/hills/etc for 100 miles each direction]. </p>

<p>so yeah, those are definitley small ones that have good research programs and internship programs, although lmu is borderline mid-size.</p>

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<p>i Second Occidental, it's a very beautiful campus right within L.A.
I visited a few weeks ago and it just seems like your in some oasis in the middle of the city.</p>

<p>Another you may want to consider is William and Mary, it is on the bigger side (it's not a LAC), but it's definately not a HUGE school. You'll get plentty of personal attention, with the benefit of a larger campus and resources.</p>

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<p>Look into Lafayette College, Muhlenberg College, Drew University.</p>

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<p>Look into the University of Chicago, maybe? It's bang in the middle of a city, yes, but the campus is quite nice, and it's generally very intellectual; also, it's probably less numbers-driven than most other places of its calibre, so a lot will just depend on whether you can present yourself intelligently in your essays.</p>

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<p>Would I have a decent chance at UChicago if I write good essays?</p>

<p>That seems like an ideal school for me.</p>