<p>Hello
I have 30 ACT 30E(Best32) 34M 27 R 27 S
4.21 WGPA, 3.9 GPA I think.
I go to a private school, and my gpa is upward trend since freshman year</p>
<p>International, not applying for FA
lived in US for about four years now</p>
<p>ECs
Varsity soccer 3 years (District almost every year)
Theater 3 years, lead 2 years (Invited to perform at Disney)
JV/V football 2 years
Vocal 2 years, Regional Choir 1 year
Boys State Chief Justice (2nd highest position)
Gov School for International Studies
Junior Rotarian
Leadership University grad (one year program, received scholarship)
150 hours community service
2nd place drawing in school</p>
<p>Yale
Columbia
Dartmouth (I just have a feeling here)
Rice (uncertain... really hard to get in)
Wash STL
William and Mary (my guardian's cousin went here. Safety and Match)
Macalester
University of Southern Cal (Very different than other schools I listed... Safety and match)
Brown (uncertain... need more info)</p>
<p>I need to take some schools off the list and find a safety school (I know this sounds so pretentious... sorry.)</p>
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<p>I love friendly people, and I hope where I am going is friendly.
I cannot get along with rude ppl or jocks who think they are extremely smart.
I would prefer warm weather... but I guess human can adapt to any place.</p>
<p>I want intellectual environment. I like geeky but friendly ppl.
I don't like very competitive environment. I prefer cooperative environment.
Not much interest in partying and having fun. More of a study type person.</p>
<p>Small class preferred.
Care about the university's prestige (not crazy though)</p>
<p>You have a lot of reaches, you need some matches and safeties.</p>
<p>*I cannot get along with rude ppl or jocks who think they are extremely smart.
*</p>
<p>lol…where do jocks think they are extremely smart? I haven’t ever visited such a school.</p>
<p>Ok…some are not going to like this…but NE schools are not as friendly as schools elsewhere. That’s just my opinion. Others can think otherwise. And, of course, the NE has very cold weather. (again, my opinion, but if you’re not used to such weather, it can get old.)</p>
<p>As for match/safeties…</p>
<p>hmmm… What is your likely major and career goal? That will influence recommendations for match/safeties.</p>
<p>What do you mean by unfriendly…? I haven’t been to NE except DC, but I kinda understand what you mean just through speaking with some of the college representatives, even those ppl who answer the call.</p>
<p>I have lived in TN, and the ppl here are generally nice, but it is kind of difficult to live here in small city as Asian.
I want to be at a school with diversity. </p>
<p>My major choice is International Relations, Spanish, or possibly Poly Sci.
I want to be a diplomat in the future, so I probably will have to attend Grad school also.</p>
<p>I deleted Rice (they don’t have IR)
added JHU, U Rochester.</p>
<p>Wow if you’re a senior you’ll be in for a lot of last-minute writing/editing. It’s refreshing to see someone applying to Yale having Chicago as their first choice. Why do you like Chicago, besides the programs it offers?</p>
<p>If it’s about friendliness, then I don’t know too much about Coluumbia, except that people go there in large part due to the city, and New York’s reputation isn’t as a friendly place. A few people do go to Brown because it’s a New England school with a really personal atmosphere: as a CS major I hang out with jocks, engineers and linguists on a daily basis, all in the same group of friends. And I do know some jocks who ARE extremely smart, even if they don’t show it off.
As for competitiveness: Brown’s about challenging yourself, and making the most out of your own education. Being able to take courses pass/fail means you can go out of your major, into a course that will really challenge you, and not worry that it’ll mess up your GPA. Again, bringing back up CS: the intro class I took (I’m a frehsman) was competitive in the fact that you wanted to be able to show everyone that you did well on the projects, that your stuff worked according to spec. However, if you worked hard enough to get your programs to run according to spec, you were an A student, regardless of whether most the rest of the class managed to do it too (don’t get me wrong: the class was hard. But if you put in the effort, you could get the desired grade, regardless of how much effort your classmates put in).</p>
<p>And if you’re not interested in partying, it doesn’t really matter what the party atmosphere is like. However, Brown seems to be a pretty social place, and some of the highest-achieving students do go out and party, or go to activities like debate tournaments or social events. If you make any sort of effort to hang out with people, there seems to be people at Brown willing to embrace you in their social atmosphere.</p>
<p>As to the other schools, I don’t know enough about them to give you real good advice, sorry.</p>
<p>I am surely biased because it’s where I’m headed next year, but if you want prestige, and you’re planning on studying IR I definitely think Georgetown is a great choice for you! Are you planning on applying to the college or specifically to SFS?</p>
<p>William and Mary and USC are definitely NOT safeties! I think they are both high matches/low reaches for you. Although for USC, it partly depends on what school you’re applying to (some are uber competitive-like business and cinema). </p>
<p>You really need some safeties and some actual matches. I think American would be good for you.</p>
<p>chslowlflax17)) I have looked at many aspects about Chicago, and I think I will fit well in that college. Thank you so much for your info about Brown ! That helped me a lot
hoyasaxa92)) I am applying to SFS.
mom2, Loly)) What about GWU? I will look into American and U Maryland.</p>
<p>American University, 25-30
George Washington University, 25-30
University of Richmond, 26-30
Rhodes College, 26-30</p>
<p>All of these schools are great for prospective IR majors. I personally didn’t like GWU that much because I felt overwhelmed by being in the heart of D.C. all the time, but you may like that. AU had a bit more green space. UoR has a beautiful campus, and a friendly student body, from my experience, but they have a high percentage of students in Greek life, for what it’s worth. Finally, you said you’ve lived in TN, so you should know about Rhodes; it’s got a great IR program, and it’s students are also very friendly, albeit rather religious.</p>
<p>I take it that you’re still a HS junior? Work on getting your test scores up (you can search for Xiggi’s SAT prep advice on CC) - at present, your ACT scores would be below the median for every college you initially named. That’s not to suggest that people don’t get in with scores below their schools’ medians - by definition, half of schools’ student bodies do - but your grades and ECs are strong enough that you’d want test scores that are equally competitive.</p>
<p>Nope… I am a senior. I have done all the big essays, and I was just cutting down my list 4 days before the deadline…</p>
<p>But, do ACT really matter THAT much when selecting a college? I know it is important, but 30 is still 94 percentile in the nation, and I have 32 and 34 in English and Math.
This is my third year in the U.S., and I believe I have done well considering that I couldn’t speak English only 3 years ago. </p>
<p>Since you’re interested in IR, you may want to consider Tufts, which has a really good program and benefits from having The Fletcher School on campus. Given your stats, it’s probably a high match for you.</p>
