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College Search & Selection
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<p>I'm a female junior. Please help me with my college search.</p>

<p>Academics: Strong. 3.9 unweighted GPA, something over 4 weighted
7 AP Classes by the end of senior year, including BC Calculus, Chemistry, English Literature</p>

<p>Extracurriculars: Also quite strong- speech and debate, one season each of three varsity sports, tutoring, LOTS of theatre since 5th grade, big commitment soph/jun/sen year, four years of voice lessons</p>

<p>What I'm looking for:
-IN a small, medium, or large city
-several strong departments, but very strong in THEATRE
-strong undergraduate focus
-okay weather at least some of the year (Boston and Chicago are okay, for example)
-relatively liberal campus environment
-near (within 50 miles) wilderness areas</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>Rhodes is in the heart of Memphis, TN. The McCoy theater just got a multi-million $$$ expansion. It’s got two black box performance spaces, costume room, woodworking shop, prop room, a few classrooms, and all of the theater faculty offices. </p>

<p>It’s a LAC, so it has a nearly exclusively undergraduate focus; there are only 10 of the nearly 1700 students who are graduates, all in an MS Accounting program that gets you ready for the CPA.</p>

<p>OK weather depends on what you like. Springs and Falls are mild (it’s hovering around mid-60s lately). Summers are hot, and winters will usually not get any colder than 20s or 30s, with maybe one snowfall during the season.</p>

<p>The campus environment isn’t exactly liberal; it’s pretty well-balanced with most students identifying themselves as either moderately liberal or moderately conservative.</p>

<p>About 10 miles away is Shelby Farms, a few hundred acres in the middle of the city along the Wolf River, has a few lakes, a bison herd, lots of trails. About 20 miles away is Shelby Forrest, a few hundred acres of hardwood forrest with walking and riding trails all around. There are plenty of forrest, river, and field areas within a 50 mile radius good for hunting, walking, running, biking, riding, whatever.</p>

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<p>Drew (Delaware Water Gap; Atlantic Ocean; Pocono Mountains) ; Muhlenberg (ditto) Goucher (Chesepeake Bay). You may get merit $ at all 3. Less sure of the undergrad focus of NYU, but you can’t beat Broadway (and in 90 minutes will be in mountains or on the seashore without needing a car). Possibly Brandeis, Sarah Lawrence, Vassar, Smith, Holyoke, Wellesley, Williams.</p>

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<p>Do you need financial aid?</p>

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<p>Fordham in Manhattan. How close can you get???</p>

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<p>Brown, maybe Skidmore.</p>

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<p>Might want to consider Bradley in Peoria - has a good theater department, and as you suggested, the emphasis is on undergraduates, giving you opportunities not available at schools with a graduate student focus. As they say, theater companies want to see if it’ll play in Peoria!</p>

<p>Also, the speech team is a perennial national powerhouse.</p>

<p>[Bradley</a> Speech Team](<a href=“https://www.bradleyspeechteam.com/Awards___History.html]Bradley”>https://www.bradleyspeechteam.com/Awards___History.html)</p>

<p>The list COA is quite low for a private school, and on top of that, they do a good job with FA for their top applicants.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/theater-drama-majors/703811-best-colleges-drama-theater.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/theater-drama-majors/703811-best-colleges-drama-theater.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Issues:

  • do you want a liberal arts (B.A.) degree or a fine arts degree (B.F.A.)?
  • for a “strong undergraduate focus”, are you leaning toward a LAC?
  • what do you mean by “wilderness” and how important to you is it, really?
    (Are the Catskills wild enough? Or do you want real mountains with tree lines, “Deliverance” style rapids, and animals that eat people?)</p>
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<p>^ animals that eat people. best followup question ever.</p>