Hi guys!
I have a 33 ACT composite, a 3.7 simple GPA, 4.5 weighted GPA, top 10% of my class, 9 AP classes
I am the president of my own created club- JSA (4 years)
I tutor kids (4 years)
I volunteer for the CT Special olympics (4 years)
I play soccer for my school (2 years)
I am a class officer (2 years)
National Honor Society (2 years)
What is my best fit college? What is the college that I’d most likely get into?
Local community college if you want the one you’re the most likely to get in to… fit normally means the place that you will like the most… do you want a rigorous school that makes you spend your time studying? A competitive school that is cutthroat or a school that you can b e chill and everyone is will to help each other? What type of weather do you like? What do you want the school’s focus to be? Engineering? Liberal arts?
Your GPA isn’t great but your ACT is good and ECs are okay. You’d have a great shot at tons of places. I’d recommend applying to whatever schools you like but you might be past your chances considering it’s almost Feb. Also, remember finances. There’s no reason to apply to high end schools if you can’t afford them.
I would prefer a rigorous school that is in great weather that does not focus on one particular concentration
@whodatjaguar What’s your planned major?
Economics
I’d suggest somewhere like NYU(Stern), it is one of the most prestigious business schools in the world and NYU overs a wide range of majors;however, the weather might not be exactly what you like.
Are you a senior or a junior?
What state are your parents paying their taxes to?
What’s your parents’ budget and can they pay their EFC?
(If you don’t know = do this RIGHT NOW. Run the NPC on your state flagship, on a local private college, on an out of state public university, and an out of state private college. Bring the results to your parents. be ready for them to fall from their chair in shock, then start discussing things.)
Are you an American citizen/permanent resident (this would affect your financial aid)?
@Mandarinsin: Stern is a business school and OP indicated s/he wants a college that does not focus on just one concentration.
If finances aren’t a huge concern, look at Occidental, some of the Claremont colleges (Pomona is a reach for almost everyone; Claremont-McKenna might be a reasonable reach for you; Scripps is probably a high-match, if you’re female). If you can swing out-of-state tuition for the UCs, you have a shot at UCLA (calculate your UC-weighted GPA) or Berkeley, UCSD is a high-match, and your chances at UCSB and Davis are excellent. You should be able to get into Tulane and U. of Miami, potentially with generous scholarship offers. If you want a fairly large school, with active sports and Greek life, Clemson would probably be a safety for you. If you want something smaller, and “quirkier,” you ought to be able to get into New College of Florida quite easily (it is also quite affordable). Pitzer, in Claremont, is very “holistic” in admissions, and therefore hard to predict, but my son was accepted with lower stats than yours (he also got into Oxy, UCSD, Davis, and Tulane). A lot of small liberal-arts colleges are located in areas without “great weather,” unfortunately. Otherwise, I would recommend Grinnell, Carleton, Reed, Swarthmore, et al.
If you want good weather (by which I’m guessing you mean warm weather) and money is no issue you can look at UMiami, Tulane, Emory, Vanderbilt, USC, UNC, UTexas- Austin, Pepperdine, maybe some UC (University of CA) schools but I don’t know them well enough to recommend any specifically.
I suggest you start off by getting one or two college guide books (ex. Fiske, Princeton Review, Insiders Guide and there are many others) and start reading up on what choices might be out there. You can also scroll through the list of USNWR universities and LACs to get ideas. Consider things like location, size of school, if you want big time sports, Greek life and anything else that might be important to you.
How could anybody provide you with a best fit college with only the parameters you provided? There are thousands of colleges in the US. Use the college search offered by the college board to narrow down your choices.