<p>Hi. I've never posted before, and I don't know if this is the right forum for my question, but I was wondering if anybody has any advice about what colleges I should consider. </p>
<p>I am interested in majoring in English and History, possibly Journalism or Creative Writing (I want to be a writer), and I am also interested in languages and linguistics. I have visited several colleges, and I'm pretty sure that I'd be most comfortable in an urban environment. I don't know what size would be best, but not too small, and I'd also like for at least some of the students to be academically focused. </p>
<p>My scores are:
SAT Critical Reading: 800
SAT Writing: 800
SAT Math: 650
ACT Comp: 34</p>
<p>Thanks for any help anybody can provide. It's not that I haven't searched at all; it's just that everyone here seems to be so knowledgeable about different schools, I'd like to hear fresh perspectives. I'm a rising senior, by the way.</p>
<p>Those are darn good English scores. The math could hold you back from a big university, unless it's for a special program, so I would look into good LACs or plain colleges (not unis). Urban, eh? There are a lot of cities in the country; where do you want to go?</p>
<p>If you want a bigger school, Columbia is leaping out at me for journalism. It's a reach, but I'm not familiar with humanities-focused schools 'cause I'm into Biology. Let's see what other people say.</p>
<p>I visited Northwestern and really didn't like it...The academics were obviously superb, but it felt cold and sort of fake. My ACT Math score was 34, if that helps.</p>
<p>For city schools, Columbia and UPenn seem like reasonable reaches. Princeton has a fantastic creative writing program, but it's not in a city (though NYC and Philly are easily accessible!) You would probably need to up the math score, though, and have fabulous ec's. Georgetown is a great city school, but I don't know anything about their writing program.</p>
<p>How about Johns Hopkins? Everybody says "Biology!" when they hear JHU, but my tour guide was a Creative Writing major (only it has a different name). Apparently, it's one of the most popular undergraduate concentrations.</p>
<p>Just to clarify a few things: it doesn't have to be a big city (in fact, I probably wouldn't want to go to NYC), just as long as it's not in the middle of a cornfield somewhere. Also, I'm from the Midwest, and I probably wouldn't want to be more than six or seven hours away. I visited U Chicago and really liked it, but I think it would definitely be a reach, financially and maybe academically, I don't know.</p>
<p>His math is really not that bad guys. I have a similar situation. 800 cr 770 writing 680 math, I've been told it's really not that big of an issue, even at the ivies because it still puts me well above the 50th percentile of scores for ivies, if anything, I almost think it helps as it shows a focus,especially for guys who generally score better on math.</p>
<p>You might want to look at Wesleyan, Swarthmore, UChicago, Yale, Harvard, Northwestern, Trinity, UPenn, Johns Hopkins, Brown, Amherst, plus Wellesley, Smith and Barnard (if you're a girl).</p>
<p>Ooh, yes, Wellesley. I've heard brilliant things about it. Swarthmore's more sciencey. Is Haverford (PA) closer to the midwest? It's in the mid-atlantic.</p>
<p>I'm a girl, by the way. So I guess the verbal strength/mathematical deficiency isn't anything unusual. Six or seven hours by car, and let's see, I've never really considered any Ivy League schools, just because they seem to have such a stigma about them. I guess I've been afraid really to consider anywhere that I'm not sure I'll get into, and I'm the oldest of four kids, so this is all kind of new to my parents. They think I should just go to our local university or a state school.</p>