<p>Help me out!</p>
<p>I go to a gifted school in FL, and have a very rigorous courseload. I have varsity lax other ECs and community service hours. </p>
<p>I want a school with a beautiful campus, pretty girls, fun scene, good departments in liberal arts and social sciences as well as like astronomy, and overall good experience.</p>
<p>Any suggestions?</p>
<p>I've thought maybe Boulder or Charleston, but my parents don't think those schools "have good reputations."</p>
<p>Sounds like Wake Forest would be a good fit.
Miami, Virginia, Vanderbilt, Tulane, Richmond, Elon, Furman, would all fit the bill.</p>
<p>Think I’d have a shot at those?</p>
<p>Yes, they are a good spectrum of schools to apply to.</p>
<p>Tulane sent me a thing that said I could apply without paying a fee or writing an essay and gave me a code…</p>
<p>Does this mean I’m basically in?</p>
<p>I’d add Auburn to the list. It has a better reputation by those in the working world than you might expect and is frankly a great all-around experience. Auburn, Alabama made the US News 2009 best places to live list. Best of Luck!</p>
<p>^ I got that too. Out west, University of Santa Clara, Loyola Marymount may be worth looking at, and University of San Diego.</p>
<p>About Tulane, no it does not. They want you to apply to drive their application number up.</p>
<p>well so it might hurt me? that sucks…</p>
<p>University of San Diego sounds pretty awesome, but I don’t know how my parents would like me living so far.</p>
<p>Any shot at UCLA? I probably have like a 3.9 W UC GPA without Freshman Year</p>
<p>I’m thinking </p>
<p>UGA
University of Colorado
UCLA
UF
SMU
Colorado College?
Charleston
Tulane
Emory
Northwestern
Elon??
Furman??? too small???</p>
<p>What do you think of that? Shooting too high? Too broad?</p>
<p>I went to Tulane several years back, then later on for my Masters. It’s a great school and has opened a lot of doors for me. </p>
<p>The free app and essay is a post-Katrina move to help get their name out there. 75% of TU comes from more than 500 miles away. The free app has helped a lot as I understand it. It doesn’t mean you’re in by any means but I’d apply if the application is free and is as easy to fill out as some have mentioned on here.</p>
<p>Yeah…</p>
<p>Furman seems cool, it’s greek, pretty liberal town, sort of westerny while still being in the south.</p>
<p>It might be too small tho.</p>
<p>FYI, some on CC have acted as though Tulane’s free app is bad in that it helps them ‘game the system’ by increasing their applications (I’m not refering to Williamingtonwave’s post, just others’ posts on other threads). I think they forget TU had $630 Million in damages due to Katrina. Since the % of applicants accepted is such a small percentage of the US News rankings calculation, I highly doubt they would do that. TU could use the funds gained from an app fee more than any slight change in a variable in someone’s ranking. TU is back to where is was before the storm. Only their engineering school and their Econ PhD program are still down. Again, Best of Luck.</p>
<p>Glad to see UF and UGA on your list. Look at Auburn and Clemson as well.</p>
<p>My cousin wants to go to Clemson…</p>
<p>I think it would be too jocky and not open minded enough for me. I like jocky crowds and people, but not if they are all fairly southern and conservative and not open minded.</p>
<p>ANY SUGGESTIONS??</p>
<p>If you want the opposite of Clemson, student body-wise, definitely look at Tulane and Emory.</p>
<p>I’m not sure about the opposite, just definitely not the same.</p>
<p>Rhodes is in Memphis and is a match for you:</p>
<p>beautiful campus: I would put the beauty of our campus up against any other in the nation. No exageration.
pretty girls: check.
fun scene: check.
good departments in liberal arts and social sciences: it’s a LAC - that’s pretty much all we do. Among social sciences, economics, psychology, and anthro/sociology are probably the strongest.
astronomy: two domed observatories one with I think it’s a 14" Schmidt-Cassegrain and I don’t remember what’s in the other, and an observation deck.<br>
overall good experience: check.</p>
<p>Come visit campus. See if it feels right.</p>
<p>I think you would like Vanderbilt.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t want to go to school in Memphis… Sorry, I just don’t know about that even if it is a nice town…</p>
<p>Any of suggestions? Vanderbilt is a reach, Emory is like a super reach.
SMU, UGA, Elon, Colorado, and GWU are probably all fits but I’m not positive.
I think FSU and Charleston would be my safeties but I’m not postive…</p>
<p>I’d love some more suggestions, I think my schools above are all kinda fru fru and not as academically minded/smart kids.</p>
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<p>I agree with that. I didn’t meat for my post to come off like that. My school made SAT’s optional and does other marketing to improve applicant numbers. Tulane is a great school that is severely under ranked. It should be in the 30s IMO. All schools do that, I was just referring to this specific instance.</p>