Reverse chance me!

I have no idea what kind of school I’d be a good candidate for, but I will be majoring in either art or English. I am a junior currently
GPA uw: 3.8
W: ~4.23
SAT I: 1480 (retaking in August, aiming for a 1530)
SAT II: (taking US History this week, considering taking Literature
AP:
European History (5)
English Language (Predict 5)
US History (Predict 5)
Calculus AB (Predict 3)
Art History Self Study (Predict 3)

Next year:
AP Stats
AP Art
AP Psychology
AP Gov and Econ
AP English Literature
9 APs total

Now the bomb with my grades… I have all A’s and sprinkles of B’s only in Math in Science courses… but I have a decent chance at ending the semester with a very narrow C+ in AP Calculus and A’s in everything else. That’s my main stresser. My uw/w are if I do end up with a C+, but I’ll have a 3.83/4.25 if I get a B-.

ECs:
MUN (All years, President)
Champion Mock Trial team (3 years, Captain)
Satire club (President, founder)
JSA (2 years, publicity)
Stage crew for musicals (3 years)
Art club (1 year)
Elected senate member (1 year)

Awards:
Scholastic A&W Silver Key
Verbal Commendation MUN
Courtroom Artist Mock Trial award

Hooks:
Published an illustrated book through Amazon (not that big of a deal, but was a personal project)
paid internship at a museum

Asian female, california

What kind of schools are you looking for? Big, medium, small student population? Coed or all women’s? Close to home or far away? Start by selecting basic criteria to narrow down the list

It sounds like art programs are important to you. These vary a lot in character and emphasis, so it would be good to have a sense of what you are looking for. This is also true of “English” - are you primarily interested in literary analysis, or do you want a program that’s strong in creative writing?

By way of example, my D17 (whose stats were similar to yours, with Calc breaking the straight A streak in her junior year) is at Scripps College. She has an interest in art, and has several friends for whom art is a primary interest. Some are very happy with the art programs and others are disappointed. It seems as if “specialty” classes predominate (ceramics, bookmaking, photography, sculpture, digital art) with surprisingly few classes in the core areas of art and design. I’m not an expert in art programs, but my sense is that there are other programs that focus more on a core sequence emphasizing a skill-set that starts with drawing and builds outward from there, which is what my d would have preferred (and will likely pursue during her study abroad semester). Then again there are students who love being able to jump straight into the specialty classes.

Likewise with English - there are phenomenal literature classes… and there is a Writing major which emphasizes non-fiction (seems like kind of a “journalism lite” type focus). But there is not a Creative Writing major per se, and while there are creative writing classes that I’m sure are excellent, there aren’t a lot of them. So again, a person could be thrilled with the offerings for an “English” major, or not, depending on the finer gradations of what they were looking for.

I’m not drilling down on the specifics about Scripps because I think you should look closely at this one school; it’s just an example that I have experience with. Just saying “Art and English” isn’t going to help people make the best possible suggestions; if you can paint a little more of a picture of what you love within those categories, that would help.

You have good stats, and bumping up the test scores another notch would help even more. (Maybe give the ACT a chance - some people naturally do better on one test than the other.) You’ll have lots and lots of options, so as others have said, narrow it down in terms of type of school, location, desired extracurriculars, etc. etc. in addition to your desires for a major program, and it will start to come into focus a little more.

In the meantime, take look at the Art and Writing-&-Literature majors within the College for Creative Studies at UCSB. https://www.ccs.ucsb.edu/majors This could be your ideal UC option. It’s quite competitive, but you’re working at bumping up your stats (and fingers crossed for you on that calc grade :wink: ) so it could be a possibility.

The Hudson River schools . . . Barnard, Sarah Lawrence, Vassar, Bard, Skidmore . . . tend to be strong in your dual interests. Also look into Kenyon, Hamilton, Pitzer, Connecticut College, Wheaton (MA) . . . You can screen by selectivity as your grades and standardized scoring become final. This article may offer you further ideas: http://flavorwire.com/409437/the-25-most-literary-colleges-in-america

I would prefer small-medium schools, coed/women doesn’t matter, and location i’m also indifferent, provided the college isn’t in a staunchly red district

Within Art and English, I’m specifically interested in animation/illustration, and the english would be for a pre-law degree, so very open and flexible

For pre-law you might benefit more from writing specifically than from English in general: https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/writing-programs. An art major alone, provided you also pursue a challenging array of liberal arts courses, could actually suffice for your law school applications.

How about Kenyon, Hamilton. Colgate, Oberlin, University of St. Andrews Scotland, Skidmore, Vasser, Tulane.

Budget? You have lots of good options in CA with the CSUs and UCs.

USC, NYU are good at both Art and English, if you’re interested in double major or major in one, minor in the other. Both are not in red states :-), but check on the size that they’re not too big.

LMU and Chapman both have serious programs in animation, and you could get more of the English/humanities side of things there than at the specialty art schools where many such programs are. In the CSU system, Fullerton, Northridge, and Long Beach both have bachelor’s programs specializing in animation and/or illustration as well.