well where should i apply (safeties reaches matches)
total sat: 2110
math- 710
verbal- 690
writing-710
top 2 sat2’s
math 1c: 700
U.S. History: 750
top of class of 23 people (no ranking)
heaviest course load
2 AP’s (chem and history) junio year
4 AP’s to be taken senior year(english, calc, government, and either french or art)
extracurriculars:
-yearbook layout designer (will be 4 years); assistent editor of yearbook
-Champions of Caring award for outstanding dedication to community service in the Philardelphia area
-lead role in school musicals and drama
-1st prize and honorable mention in Princeton University Essay COntest
-ballet (12 years)
-150+ hours of community service at Rehab Center, Martin HOuse Learning Center, Watershed etc
-awarded academic scholarship to highschool
-atended Cambridge prep experience
-People to People Student AMbassador
-Padi Scuba Diver
-Student Body Treasurer
-various poems and artwork published
<p>You need to decide what type of school you want. Use the summer to visit local colleges and see what it is like on different kinds of campuses. You don't have be interested in actually attending the college. Just visit it to see different types of schools. Over the summer, decide whether you want urban/rurul/suburban/small town, large/mid/small, LAC/university, public/private, and etc. Each college has a different personality. Do you care if it has Division I sports teams? Do you care if the campus is politically active? Do you want a lot of parties? Does a lot of drinking on campus bother you? Do you want a school where everyone is studying hard and planning on going to grad school? Find out if the college has a good program in what you want to study. I had the impression from your post that you wanted your stats to decide where you fit on the USNWR rankings. I wouldn't let the rankings drive your decision that much. If warm weather is a big criteria for you, then Emory outranks Harvard. The rankings would be different for a biology major than for a history major. A lot of people look at the Princeton Review Top 357 guide or the Fiske Guide to Colleges to research the type of college that they want to attend, in addition to just looking up specific colleges that you have heard of. In addition to the basic info, these guides give a lot of information about campus life and the personality of each college.</p>
<p>Well, Columbia has about 6,000 undergrads, but it is in NYC and has a large graduate program as well that makes the school have a total population of over 20,000. English is one of, if not the strongest major at Columbia. </p>
<p>I would look highly into this school if you can reconcile differences with having a larger student body (although grads really dont live on campus, only take classes. Undergrads occupy almost all rooms in dorms directly on campus)</p>