<p>Hi im a junior in highschool and i was wondering what is the best university for me. Im looking for a nice campus( preferably close to the beach), good value tuition, fun nite life w/ sorrorities, and great education and administration. I'm a straight A student, (4.0 GPA w/o ap),181 Psat with Ap and honor classes and ecs and i think i want a medical, communications, or jounalism major and i want have the best college experience ever! some help please</p>
<p>You might want to do a few searches, and include some stats ( GPA, PSAT, Plan, SAT’s ) if you have them. Your request is really broad. The beach part narrows it down though, In California, UCSB and Pepperdine.</p>
<p>Cal Poly is in San Luis Obispo, CA, a couple miles from the beach. Since it’s in the CSU system rather than the UC, it’s considerably more affordable.</p>
<p>Surprisingly, not a lot of interesting colleges near the water. UCLA and U of Southern California would probably be the top two options. UC-San Diego, San Diego State, UC-Santa Barbara, U of Miami, U of Hawaii, Bowdoin, Pepperdine, and Pomona are worth checking out. Northwestern (great in journalism and communications) is right on Lake Michigan. If you can live without the beach, amazing college experiences and beautiful campuses can be had at Dartmouth, Boston College (no sororities), U of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Vanderbilt, U of Colorado, Virginia, and U of Texas-Austin.</p>
<p>I’d say look into some Florida schools. I don’t know how close to the beach they are, but there are some that are supposed to have some serious night life and still provide a good education (UF, USF, UCF, FSU). UMiami would be a fit but it is private and would be very expensive unless you get a scholarship. </p>
<p>Back in my home state of NJ, all the chicks who wanted sorority life and days at the beach went to Monmouth. Although it is much too cold this time of the year to be at the beach at the Jersey Shore :P.</p>
<p>Also, on Northwestern: When I visited in April, it was really cold (and this was late April and not January). I don’t know about you but beaches are no fun when you need puffy jackets. But they do have serious academics and Greek life.</p>
<p>With a 181 PSAT, unless you pull your SAT radically higher than that, you will not get in to NU anyway, so its a moot point.</p>
<p>1870 on sat, 27 composite act and 750 on history on my first tries so it is not a moot point. i dont need your erroneous comments ^</p>
<p>chrismas, sorry but that 1870 wouldn’t get you into NU either…</p>
<p>good luck though</p>
<p>OP: Are you an URM?</p>
<p>no im am not a urm but an athlete and very involved in my community, plus i dont want to go to nu. thinking of going to trinity in connecticut. it seems very chill, layedback and artistic</p>
<p>Besides resuming an old exchange over your test scores, is there anything else you’d like to share? You should have a good shot at Trinity. What other schools are you considering? Is cost an issue? </p>
<p>If you like Trinity and want a school on the water then you might also like Connecticut College. Another one that may not have hit your radar is St. Mary’s College of Maryland. This is Maryland’s public honors college (not a Catholic school). It is small, has a beautiful campus, and is on the water (Potomac and St. Mary’s Rivers where they meet the Chesapeake Bay). Sailing is a big sport there. Academics are solid.</p>
<p>SATs far too weak for any top level schools.
Look at uconn maybe</p>
<p>I call ■■■■■. You won’t get into any top school if you can’t spell ‘laidback’ right. Are you an athlete as in, registered at NCAA-for-recruiting serious athlete?</p>
<p>I’d consider UNC Wilmington. Right on the beach, and known for social life. I think the SAT score is right around the 1800 mark as well. However, I don’t believe any of the sororities on campus have their own house, but they might have their own apartments set out for them.</p>
<p>You limit your choices but look at major universities in the metro of: Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Monica and Boston. Typically you will see University of California-: San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Monica, Berkeley, Harvard. Also Florida State University and University of Florida. If you do not always need sunshine also look into Northwestern ( directly by the beach), University of Chicago.</p>
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<p>Waterfront campus, and all the other things you were looking for. Many of the sorority houses are beautiful old mansions.</p>
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<p>barrons thanks for the Wisconsin picture.</p>
<p>It appears that it is in a penninsula surrounded by a lake</p>
<p>is this the case?</p>
<p>coolbreeze, what is up with you?</p>
<p>there is no undergraduate school at UCSF</p>
<p>and</p>
<p>UC Santa Monica does not exist</p>
<p>Harvard is not in California</p>
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Surrounded by three lakes. It sits in the isthmus of two.</p>
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He meant Stanford.
:)</p>
<p>Four lakes total but depends on how you want to count them. The UW fronts on the largest of them-Mendota with appoximately four miles of frontage. The campus map gives a better picture of the layout.</p>
<p>[University</a> of Wisconsin-Madison: Campus Map](<a href=“http://www.map.wisc.edu/]University”>http://www.map.wisc.edu/)</p>