<p>I'm a high school juinor looking for an upper-level Liberal Arts College, or a smaller university (5,000 students or so). I'm looking for one with a good Political Science Cirriculum. Having a Secondary Education major would be nice too. Any suggestions or comments are appriciated. </p>
<p>GPA: 4.36 weighted (3.86 unweighted?)
My rank is aroung the top 1-2% (top 10 out of 500-esque students)
SAT: 580 Verbal, 790 Math, 610 Writing (plan to retake in the fall to increase verbal and writing)
ACT: 30 Composite, 29 English, 30 Math, 30 Reading, 32 Science
APs: Took AP Government this year, Taking AP Calculus, AP US History, and AP English this year. (4 of 5 APs my school has)
Extracirriculars: I was on FEA, the newspaper, and the literary magazine until Juinor year when they disbanded due to leavy issues. I've been on SCEC and other serive clubs for 3 years, and have been on the Math Team, NHS (Had to be a juinor to do those 2), and Model UN since Juinor Year (2nd year it existed, first year I knew about it)
Also, I'll probably be chief editor of the newspaper next year, since I was able to get it restarted. not sure about it yet though. </p>
<p>Colleges I'm interested in: Oberlin, Colgate, Depauw, Gettysburg, Villanova, Yale (reach), and Baldwin-Wallace(local safety school, can probably get a free ride there)</p>
<p>Also, am I looking at the right colleges for me? any help is appriciated.</p>
<p>Yeah, i'm definitely retaking the SAT in the fall. Surpsingly enough, the entire SAT was an improvement from my PSAT(s). Assuming i can bring those up to around a 700 or so, hopefully I'll be fine.</p>
<p>heck, go for it, scores don't mean much unless you do well, plus, just write a very nice essay. and great scores, i mean for us who do well in math, SAT put us at a disadvantage, b/c there are 2 verbal sections and 1 math. i think you should take SAT I again, your writing will go up for sure. i got 640 on my first writing test and then did prep with kaplans and got 700. but it's up to you, 100ish points don't really mean anything.
Colgate is a great school, i think you'll be fine. One of my old classmates is at colgate right now, he is on a hockey scholarship though, i remember his sat was like 1030 or something... so sAT don't mean that much</p>
<p>For some of those schools, you could submit only ACT, and 30 is a fine score at any of those schools.
I think you should be able to get into all of those schools, except for Yale.</p>
<p>I agree with collegebound. Have you looked at Wesleyan or Haverford? They are far less selective than Yale, but more selective than Oberlin and Colgate. I wouldn't recommend wasting your EA on Yale unless your Verbal and Writing scores go up significantly.</p>