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I don't know what college to go to?

I am a junior in high school so I am getting my college search is on. I have only been looking at in state colleges, University of VA, George Mason University are two on my list but I would like to look for others too, especially ones out of state. I really don't mind being away from home. I think I want to be at a smaller school near a city. Any way here's the classes I have taken and the grades I got for each class:

Freshman:

A English 9 HN

A Geometry

A Biology HN

A World History I HN

A - Spanish 2

A Web page design

A PE

Sophomore:

A- English 10 HN

B Algebra 2 HN

B+ Chemistry HN

B AP World History

B Spanish 3

A Fashion Marketing

A PE

Junior:

Pre Calc w/ trig

AP English Language

AP US History

Physics HN

AP Macro/Micro Econ

Spanish 4

Advanced Composition

I currently have all A's in each class, except for a B+ in Physics

Currently have a GPA of 3.98(weighted)

3.7 (unweighted)

Senior:

AP English Lit

AP Govt.

AP Statistics or Calculus AB

AP Environmental Science or Physics B

AP Art History?? Or AP Euro??

Accounting

Debate

I plan on taking the SAT in the spring as well as Math 2 SAT English SAT (i am know some schools want SAT2). I'll see how I do on SAT and decide on the ACT later.

Extra curriculars:

Key Club (10-11 grade)

Odyssey of the Mind (10-11)

Tutor(11)

ECHO volunteer(10-11)

Rocketry(11)

Eddie's club, help disabled kids(8, 11)

student representative for PTSA(11)

Personality: introvertive, mature, creative, thoughtful, independent. Myers Briggs: INTJ

PS I plan on majoring along the lines of a social science but I do not have my heart set on what I want to be.

if you can point out a few colleges that I should look for I would be very grateful. Thank you for

your time.

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Do you realize that the University of Virginia is an Ivy league school that BOTH public AND private, like Cornell University. They are both land-grant universities, but the colleges within each university can be either public or private. Which COLLEGE you seed admission to is probably going to determine what your tuition will be.

    I suggest you do a lot of online research into liberal arts colleges, since it's obvious that you probably are not going to be applying to engineering colleges. :-D. Lots of people have no idea what they are going to major in when they start college. Most degree programs in liberal arts colleges require you to to take introductory courses in certain areas. An English composition class is required of almost every one going to a liberal arts school. I had to test out of freshman English at the University of Oklahoma when I was working on my third bachelor's degree. The reason for the distribution requirement courses is so you can find out what you want to major in by taking science/math courses, history courses, foreign language or computer programming courses, or social science courses like psychology.

    Think about different areas of the country that you have been to and think about whether you would like to live there. When I applied to graduate school I had no idea that the University of Oklahoma had one of the best geology & geophysics schools in the U,S.A. I just wanted to live Oklahoma year round and go to graduate school where my mother had gone to graduate school to see if what she always told me about the weather Oklahoma was right. Your mother Is ALWAYS right about that kind of stuff. Even when she's wrong, don't let her know she's wrong. Lol!!!

    You have the Internet at your fingertips, so you can do a lot of online research right at home or at school. I've been a student at Tulane University, but I was a faculty dependent, so I'm not going to suggest that you should investigate Tulane, unless you want to, the University of Arizona and the University of Oklahoma. I think the only reason that any college or University would NOT accept you is if all the available places had already been filled by other applicants. You might even consider visiting some of the schools you will be sending applications to. You might even get in touch with some schools by e-mail. Colleges have people whose job is to make first contact with prospective applicants. You can find those e-mail addresses on the university and college/school and department web-sites.

    Source(s): Growing up as the faculty dependent of university associate professor ,and twenty or more years personal experience in academia. See my profile for details.
  • Dan
    Lv 5
    9 years ago

    wow...ur gpa is amazing and u have a lot of extracurrilar activities...u should not have a problem applying to colleges and getting in, i think every college will take u....and it depends where u want to stay...do u want to stay in state, out of state, close to home out of state, far away

    then depends wat colleges ur looking at...public or private (big or small), party college, catholic college?...all of these things r dependent on where u want to spend the next 4 years of school...

    im currently lookign at schools and i decided i want to move away from home, maybe out of state but still close to home...no more than 2 hours away...im looking in Mass and Rhode Island nad i have like 6 colleges that have programs for what i wanna do adn i want a decent party college so i can have fun on the weekends...stuff like that all varies in...

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