<p>I would love to attend Colgate, it is beautiful, fun, and my brother will be a junior this year.
I have a 4.2 W GPA and a 3.75 UW GPA. 40 of 573 class rank.
My low SAT Score, a 1930, is pretty awfully distributed.
CR 580. M 650 W 700.
I just took the ACTs and am waiting to receive my scores back.
I'm involved in many extracurricular activitys:
Editor In Chief of the Yearbook
Varsity Soccer
Varsity Indoor Track
Varsity Cross Country
JV Lacrosse
President of Ophelia Club
National Honors Society
Freshman Scholars
Sophomore Scholars
Vice President of Freshman Class
Delegate of Sophomore, Junior, and Senior Class
Manager of Varsity Boys Soccer Team
I have also taken many AP classes already:
AP Environmental Science
AP World History
AP Language and Composition
AP United States History
AP Statistics
I also plan to take the following next year:
AP Literature and Composition
AP Modern European History
AP Calculus
AP Psychology
Thanks...</p>
<p>yeah, you're a very well-rounded applicant. you'd have a pretty good shot. early i'd say you'd get in.</p>
<p>Retake SAT and apply ED and you have a shot. Your current 1230 is a fair bit below the bottom 25%.</p>
<p>okay thanks.</p>
<p>consider ED.... :)</p>
<p>yeah im pretty sure i will ED...my brother goes here and everytime i visit, i LOVE everything!</p>
<p>I am not familiar with colgate. can anyone tell me facts figures impressions characteristics?</p>
<p>idic5-- I am a dad for a new freshman student, so I've been to Colgate a couple of times & studied the heck out of it from afar....you should definitely get some opinions of current & recently graduated students.</p>
<p>Here's my impression of what I like about Colgate that I think is fairly unique amongst other selective LACs....</p>
<p>Every...and I mean every... alumnus or current student that I've met over the years and recently (1) loves the school & their experience, and (2) is a normal person who can relate to others & the world. On number 1, yes, plenty of schools have spirit, but Colgate seems to be at the top of the list here to me, and its like 100% throughout....very few dissenters.....old and new. On number 2, (this one's hard to articulate) I visited many many selective schools where the student body exhibited what I'll call excessive quirkiness....Colgate to me does not.....at all...opposite in fact. These are normal people, who can relate to each other and the outside world. Is was actually quite refreshing to me to come across a solid academic school like Colgate where there doesn't appear to be a dispoportionately large share of extreme introverts.</p>
<p>There are plenty of other attributes I hope you hear about.</p>
<p>Hey Papa, what's wrong with extreme introverts? Not that I am one but a lot of my friends are. I'm a rising senior getting my list together. Your comment makes me wonder if there's an anti-intellectual spirit at Colgate?</p>
<p>As a rising Junior who is very involved on campus, here is what I can tell you…</p>
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<li> Colgate is one of the friendliest campuses I ever visited. My parents always remark that while all of my friends seem intelligent, it is their ability to engage them that is even more apparent. </li>
<li> Besides friendly, I am not sure you will find a prettier campus; at least not in a northeast setting. Stone pulled from the same three quarries [over the past 190 years] defines the campus architecture – a newly renovated library [100,000 square feet, 5 floors, and a Starbucks] as well as a new interdisciplinary science center account for over 100 million dollars worth of new construction</li>
<li> Colgate is far more geographically diverse than you would expect for a school in central New York [we are 10 miles away from the Geographic center of New York state]. California is the 5th most represented state on campus; Illinois and Colorado are not far behind. Students at Colgate come from all 50 states and 40+ countries.<br></li>
<li> At about 2800 students, Colgate is larger than almost all of our peer schools, but never too big to feel overwhelming. Despite how involved I am on campus, I am constantly meeting new people.</li>
<li> Colgate offers 50+ majors and 60+ minors. There is something for EVERYONE.</li>
<li> Hamilton is a quaint town with all the necessities of a college town and lacking any commercial ventures [everything is locally owned!].</li>
<li> My friends at Colgate also applied to … Middlebury, Dartmouth, Boston College, Bucknell, Trinity, Hamilton, Colby and Bowdoin. Those seem to be the most popular crossovers – and, interestingly, I have a number of friends who chose Colgate over any of those schools.</li>
<li> Sometimes the guidebooks can be pretty harsh about Colgate’s preppiness – so, just to preemptively address that question… Is Colgate a well dressed campus? Yes. Is that a central theme at school? Not at all. The fact that J.Crew made an entire print in our honor last year or that we were one of the first schools to have custom Vineyard Vines or Ralph Lauren is more of a joke to us than anything else. It is just one more way we can show our school pride. Students are good about holding one another accountable for the way they act. Students certainly are not perfect, but I would never suggest that Colgate is snobby or obnoxious.<br></li>
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<p>If you have any more questions about Colgate – send me a message or post here!</p>
<p>how is the dating scene at colgate? i know this sounds like a gay question, but are the girls there overall hot?</p>
<p>the ladies are ranked quite favorably</p>
<p>edit: whoops, i guess i can't mention that site here</p>
<p>haha what site are u talking about?</p>
<p>direwolf....please don't interpret my poor wording choice to mean that there's an anti-intellectual attitude at Colgate....in fact, quite the contrary. I work with plenty of the types I was trying to describe & have some of those tendendies myself. </p>
<p>Let me try to clarify what I meant....when recently touring highly selective institutions, and having worked with professors from a number of those institutions over the last decade or 2, I have noticed some institutions contain a very high share of what I've coined as "extreme introverts" or highly quirkly soles. Its the mix and proportion of that contingent that I was commenting upon, not that I think there's anything "wrong" with those folks as individuals. In the ideal world, I think every campus should have diversity along many lines like the conventional race/ethnicity and socioeconomic qualities....but also on personalities. And out of all the smart people to end up at selective institutions, there is diversity along all of these lines that may or may not be represented in any one college's student body. Maybe its just me, but when stepping onto Harvard's campus, I felt like their student population had a much higher share of the introvert/quirky types than the smart population in general. Colgate feels much more balanced. And from my brief exposure to Colgate, intellectual passion does not suffer and is promoted through many things like their dedication to undergraduate research.</p>
<p>My daughter is a rising Junior at Colgate. In high school she appeared to be the proverbial tree hugging, birkestock wearing vegetarian. But when she came up to visit, knew immediately that Cogate was where she wanted to go. Now she and all her friends love the school so much, are so dedicated to it and have become so close to eachother that we've come to jokingly refer to it as "Cultgate". </p>
<p>Papa Chicken hit it right on the head with his description of Colgate students and alums. But one thing not mentioned so far is that students who attend become alums with an abiding loyalty to the school which definitely seem to translate into jobs and connections afterwards.</p>
<p>The Colgate placement service is amazing. My daughter and most of her friends got many interviews and opportunities there for desirable internships over the past summer. And almost all of them did it without family or personal connections, just the Colgate placement service. This summer all of my daughter's friends who were not doing some sort of research wound up working in either NYC or West Coast brokerage houses or internationally known corporations at meaningful enjoyable internships (albeit not all, in their sophmore year, at paying internships). There is also a program by which the placement service helps the students maximize the skills and contacts they make in those internships and turn them into jobs and job skills when they graduate.</p>
<p>My daughter and her friends also all know a number of graduating seniors who got excellent jobs in the most desireable companies and industries through Colgate and Colgate connections.</p>
<p>I honestly never even gave this a thought when she applied or decided to enroll at the school, but now with the prospect of her graduation beginning to loom, I am very very impressed and glad she chose Colgate.</p>