<p>What colleges sound good for someone with the following profile:
SAT I: Critical Reading 760; Math 610; Writing 640
ACT: 30
(She has just retaken both tests and doesn't have the new scores back yet. The scores above are thus from the first test.)
Unweighted GPA: 3.98 (School doesn't weight and doesn't rank. She has one A- and the rest are As.)
Interests: Humanities, Social Sciences, Geology
Has taken AP World History and AP US History; will take AP Calculus, AP Physics, and AP Lit and Comp as senior.
Has taken CITS Pre-Calculus (that's where the one A- comes in)
She has also taken/will take several courses that until a year ago the school designated as honors courses. (She's taken the toughest stuff this school offers.) I mention this because the school counselor will probably indicate on the report that she has taken the tougher, honors-level courses.
Many community/school activities, including sports (soccer and figure skating), volunteer figure skating coach for Basic Skills lessons, service activities through church, member of church choir, etc.
Leadership: National Youth Leadership Forum participant, local Youth Leadership group member, captain of JV soccer team, captain next year of high school Figure Skating Team</p>
<p>Howe - What is she interested in studying, what type of colleges does she like, what is the financial status is info we need before people can make suggestions.</p>
<p>What is her class rank? Does she have a geographical preference for schools?? Is size of student body important?</p>
<p>She seems to be interested in math and science - is she looking into an engineering/architecture career?</p>
<p>In that case perhaps schools like Harvey Mudd College, Cooper Union, Georgia Institute of Technology, Virginia Tech and MIT sound like potential choices.</p>
<p>What kind of school would she like? large, small, quiet, spirited with big sports to cheer for? rural campus, city setting?</p>
<p>What state are you in?</p>
<p>What is your budget? That will likely determine where she should apply.</p>
<p>If you can’t afford to pay full freight…then you need to make some determinations:</p>
<p>1) What will your “expected family contribution” likely be? (EFC isn’t the most you have to pay…often you have to pay MORE since most colleges don’t give much aid.) A rough estimate of EFC is about 23% of income (before taxes). It can be more if you have a lot of assets. This all can be very shocking to families, because debt and mortgages aren’t considered. And, again, most schools can’t meet need and don’t have much aid to give.</p>
<p>2) If you determine that you can’t pay your EFC…or the schools that your child will be applying to don’t give great need-based aid…then you need to include some schools where your child’s stats will get a large merit scholarship which will reduce the total cost of the school. </p>
<p>3) And…have your child apply to 2-3 schools that will be her financial safety schools…these are schools that she likes, will get accepted to, and you know FOR SURE that all costs are covered thru ASSURED scholarships, small federal student loans, and/or family funds. Having 2-3 financial safeties means that if her other schools don’t work out (financially or acceptance-wise) then your D will still feel like she has a choice…which is good for morale.</p>
<p>She is interested in geology, anthropology, and archeology. She is also very good in the language arts, so English or Spanish are other possibilities. She is NOT interested in math. The family can afford most colleges, but of course if the college offers merit scholarships for which she would be qualified, that would be a bonus. She’d like a medium-sized college (larger might be ok) and would love it if it had a division one football team she could cheer on. The geographical area doesn’t really matter to her.</p>
<p>There is no class ranking at her high school.</p>
<p>She is, by the way, a rising senior.</p>
<p>We live in Wisconsin.</p>
<p>Division I football rules out LACs.</p>
<p>The family can afford most colleges,</p>
<p>Does that mean that you can afford the $55k+ per year for many privates? Or does that mean that you can afford the $30-40k for many publics and out of state publics?</p>
<p>So, she would like to try out for a cheer team for Div 1 football? Is she going to apply to UWisc-Madison? </p>
<p>Is she a Big 10 football fan? How about Michigan…or Purdue?</p>
<p>Does the school have to have an architecture school? How about Texas A&M?</p>
<p>I’m a little confused about the math statement…and the engineering/architecture interest…don’t you need to be good at math for those? Or…did you mean that she won’t major in math, but is good in math?</p>
<p>Someone else replied that it sounded like she was into math and science and architecture. I didn’t say that! She DOES like geology but DOES NOT really like math. She does quite well at math but it isn’t a main strength (hence the 610 in math on the SAT while she had a 760 in critical reading).</p>
<p>Consider that money is no object.</p>
<p>This list represents a range of match-reach schools:</p>
<p>Medium sized with D1 Football</p>
<p>Boston College
Duke (OK maybe it’s not exactly D1 level ;))
Miami
Notre Dame
Northwestern
University of Southern California</p>
<p>Non D1 Schools</p>
<p>Carelton
Georgetown
Penn
Pomona (actually any of the Claremont Colleges except Harvey Mudd)
Most LACs</p>
<p>She needs to try and narrow down how important certain factors are (size, geography, etc). Her math score is going to be troublesome at some of the schools I’ve listed, so any improvement in the test scores to support her classroom performance will be a big help.</p>
<p>Sorry…I misread someone else’s post as yours. oops!!</p>
<p>Ok…</p>
<p>How about Tulane? </p>
<p>When you say Div 1 …do you mean like teams that are shown on TV…like Big 10, SEC, Pac 10?</p>
<p>Ok…she likes Geology…does that mean that that is a possible major …or her definite major? Geology…UTulsa, UCalgary, Oklahoma, SMU,</p>
<p>According to USNWR, the rankings for geology are as follows:</p>
<ol>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Cal Tech</li>
<li>Penn State</li>
<li>Michigan</li>
<li>Texas</li>
<li>Arizona</li>
<li>UC-Berkeley</li>
<li>Wisconsin</li>
<li>Washington</li>
</ol>
<p>The above are list are for grad schools.</p>
<p>Note that geology majors often need to take significant amounts of math and physics.</p>
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<p>University of Pennsylvania is in the Ivy League, which is an NCAA Division I conference. However, for football, it is in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), not the better known Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS).</p>
<p>As a Penn alum, trust me, Penn football is not close to D1 (before the “initial” explosion they used to call it Division 1-AA).</p>
<p>Smaller than she might like, and no football of its own, but excellent humanities overall and a good geology department at Bryn Mawr. Have her check it out. Her grades definitely put her in range there.</p>
<p>Back in my day we made an annual trek to the Army-Navy game because my roomie’s brother was at West Point. More serious college sports fans spent time at Penn and Villanova.</p>
<p>I don’t know where the closest ice rink is, but I have met alumnae who kept up with their skating while at BMC.</p>
<p>UCONN
Virginia Tech</p>
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<p>It is Division I, just in the lower subdivision (now called FCS, formerly Division I-AA). FCS teams are generally not considered competitive with FBS (formerly Division I-A) teams, so it can be big news when an FCS team beats an FBS team.</p>