<p>i am a junior in the class of 2013. I met with my college counselor earlier in the year, but she gave me a list of colleges to look for around the Maryland/DC area. I don't want to go anywhere THAT close. I really want to go somewhere in New England, with a medium to large student body. With my stats, can someone suggest some colleges I should start looking into that I have a good chance of getting into?</p>
<p>STATS</p>
<p>Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Half Indian/Caucasian
School: All girls private, well known.
GPA: Approx. 3.4-3.5, unweighted.
Will have taken 2 AP courses (There is a limited amount in my school)
ACT: 29 (Most Recent), next time aiming for a 30-32
SAT: Haven't taken yet, but aiming around a 1900-2100
Member of the Equestrian Team, won National titles.
Head of the Student Newspaper as of next year, editor since freshman year
Member of Service League
Fellowship Scholar (My school is granting me money to volunteer at a Therapeutic Riding facility abroad)
Has done volunteer work in Race Horse rehabilitation.</p>
<p>Do you know what kind of school you want? Large university or small LAC or something medium size? Urban or suburban? Would you want to ride in college? We can’t really suggest any schools until you give more specifics about what you are looking for. If you really don’t know what kind of school, I suggest you look at a couple big and small schools in your area just to get an idea of what you like.</p>
<p>Do you have any idea about majors yet? Do you want to take your horse with you and/or continue to compete? Do you know what your budget is for college? </p>
<p>Those answers as well as the answers to westies questions will help people give you better answers.</p>
<p>I would prefer something medium size to a large university, I love history, journalism, and would want to major in something like that. A school with a riding program isn’t imperative, but would be a plus.</p>
<p>I would do a search online about schools in new england that have riding programs. I can’t think of any off the top of my head that has any, but positive there are some. I think UVM has one.</p>
<p>a number of VA schools have riding programs. VaTech and I think James MAdison are the ones that come to mind. Your stats may be pretty good for JMU, check there! </p>
<p>Also, I think Penn State has riding, but not 100% on that.</p>
<p>Is financial aid a big issue for your family? Can you only afford state schools or private schools with considerable financial aid? Or can your family do “full pay” and successfully pay the $50,000+ cost of attendance without taking on much debt?</p>
<p>Mount Holyoke is supposed to have a good equestrian program. Not large and not sure if you mind all female school. Skidmore and UNH also might be good to look at.</p>
<p>It does a very good job for a first cut at schools, especially when you have at least one criteria selected in detail (e.g., location). Just remember to keep the parameters pretty broad on the first pass. At this stage you want more choices not fewer.</p>
<p>Here are some more I found for good history/journalism department, medium to large, Northeast, and has an equestrian team (sorry some of them are not NewEngland but still north and away from DC area):</p>
<p>BU, BC, Tufts, Brandeis, Cornell, Colgate, Syracuse, NYU. You need to find a couple of good safeties to go along with some of these like Rutgers or Pitt.</p>
<p>^Cornell and tufts are unrealistic in my opinion and colgate bc and nyu are mid reaches and unlikely unless you can get your test scores up. BU and brandeis are good matches though</p>
<p>thank you all so much for the help! I just really needed a starting point in searching. Money isn’t really an issue right now in terms of limiting my possibilities, and like I said, if it’s a great school, there doesn’t HAVE to be a good riding program.</p>