<p>Currently a HS junior...(well, senior now i guess, since school is out!)</p>
<p>GPA:roughly 3.8 (I believe...my school hasn't released final grades as of yet.)</p>
<p>Classes:Geometry(H), US I (H), Lab Chem (H), Lab Bio (H), Lab Physics (H), English I-IV (H), AP US II, AP Psych, AP Gov, AP Spanish, Peer Leadership Workshop, Spanish IV (H). All other classes were required, non-honors/AP courses and electives. </p>
<p>E.C.: Varsity cross country team (3 going on 4 years). Made captain of the team for my upcoming senior year. Varsity Indoor Track and Varsity Outdoor Track (3 going on 4 years as well). Peer Leadership Club. Volunteering at local WWII history museum, Member of National Honor Society, member of Spanish Honor Society, Co-founder of my school's Conquer Cancer Club</p>
<p>SAT: (1st & only time I've taken it, not much studying at all...could improve): 1960 (CR:670, M:600, W:690)</p>
<p>I'm trying to stay on the east coast, but I honestly have no idea where to even begin looking for places to apply yet! I'm super worried that my A's/B's aren't good enough :/</p>
<p>Look at state schools like Penn State/UConn etc.</p>
<p>What can your family afford? What is your home state?</p>
<p>Cost is not necessarily an issue. I live in NJ</p>
<p>If your parents will pay $45K/year then UConn is probably a match. Certainly have Rutgers on the list (should be a safety). Penn State might be a reach.</p>
<p>Sometimes I wonder what kind of guidance students are getting from their high schools and/or families. To be a senior and have no idea where you might apply, and to have only taken the SAT’s once so far, seems like you are behind schedule. I know I have seen posts from the opposite side of the spectrum where the kids are visiting colleges in middle school and take every known test multiple times, but there must be some happy medium!</p>
<p>Anyway, if you really are starting from scratch, start with creating a list of criteria: location, size of school, type of school (liberal arts, research university), potential majors, cost, financial aid possibilities, etc. etc.
Feed those criteria into a college search engine (try the College Navigator [College</a> Navigator - National Center for Education Statistics](<a href=“http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/]College”>College Navigator - National Center for Education Statistics) and there are many others) - to get you started. You can export the list into a spreadsheet. Then start researching!
You get the best advice here when you have a more specific question :-)</p>
<p>BeanTownGirl nailed it. I would only add that you need to check the Common Data Set for each school (Section C) to see how you compare to admitted students. And you need at least two schools that are ‘safeties’ - schools that you are 100% sure you’ll get into, can afford to attend, that have your potential majors, and that you would be happy at. After you have your safeties, you can decide how many additional schools you want to apply to.</p>
<p>elon university at least as a safety</p>