What Colleges Should I Look At?

College Search & Selection
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<p>If I'm a mostly A (though some Bs) student at a competitive private high school that often sends students to top schools (i.e., around 80 to Ivies in the past 5 years with an average graduating class of less than 100), and am taking the toughest courses available to me, along with high SATs (over 2100), and some good ECs (school newspaper, Model U.N., started a club about politics, intern with a congressman), what colleges should I look at?</p>

<p>I'm interested in history and politics, specifically Russian history and language, and political theory.</p>

<p>Also, as a note, all of my Bs in high school were in math and science courses, if that is a help in this.</p>

<p>So where should I look in the categories of Reach, Good Match, and Safety?</p>

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<p>what's the average sat/act score of your school?</p>

<p>that will give me a good idea of how competitive it is</p>

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<p>I'm not sure of the exact average, but most everyone I've talked to has gotten over 2100 on the SATs, and we actually had around five or six people get over 2300 this year (out of a Junior classs size of less than 100).</p>

<p>Oh, and there was one perfect SAT score this year.</p>

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<p>Check out Georgetown, Brown, Dartmouth.</p>

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<p>I know G'town has good International Politics, but how are they for actual political science and theory?</p>

<p>Also, what would be some more Reaches, and any Good Matches and Safeties?</p>

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<p>Also, would a National University or a LAC be better for what I'm looking for? I know I'd get more attention at a LAC but would it be easier to get into Grad School at a University or a LAC? Where is there more undergrad research?</p>

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<p>Research universities prob. provide you with more of that, but Grad school does not distinguish between national/LAC.</p>

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<p>Yeah.</p>

<p>But are there specific colleges I should look at?</p>

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<p>What are you looking for in terms of social scene?</p>

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<p>I recently used a college search site to narrow my college searches. I read about [url=<a href="http://www.myusearch.com%5DmyUsearch%5B/url"&gt;http://www.myusearch.com]myUsearch[/url&lt;/a&gt;] on the Washington Post forum and I really like that, but I also think Collegeboard has a good site as well. They gave me a lot of ideas for schools that I had never even heard of, but after researching them more closely, they seem to be great suggestions. Hope that helps.</p>

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<p>Some to look at are University of Rochester, Michigan, American and Ohio State.</p>

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<p>In terms of social scene, I really don't have that much of a preference. Except I'd prefer to not go to a party school, I want to go to more of an intellectual place, or a place where there is a group with intellectuals.</p>

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<p>The largest Russian Studies programs are at
U Texas Austin and
U Colorado Boulder. </p>

<p>Yale,
Colby,
Mt Holyoke,
Barnard are very selective and have Russian Studies. </p>

<p>Also take a look at
U Michigan's very good program.</p>

<p>U Alaska Fairbanks
U Mass Amherst
Hobart
Wittenberg
Texas Tech
U Houston
Grand Valley State</p>

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<p>Boston College, Rochester, Bowdoin, Colby, Fordham, Georgetown, William and Mary, American, George Washington, Clark U., Cornell, Penn, Trinity, Wesleyan, Colby, Bates, Middlebury, Union College, Colgate, Bucknell, Lafayette, Villanova, Syracuse, Kenyon, Davidson, Richmond, Kansas, Indiana, Wisconsin, Miami (Ohio).</p>