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Hellooooo i am new here and so shocked i've found a place where people actually want to talk about college! my friends are so annoyed hahahha...

anyhoo

basically i would just like some suggestions for colleges.. i need some more ideas...

-i'd prefer a smaller school.... but a good one
-hopefully in california
-environment doesn't really matter (urban or rural fine..)
-with good business program/int'l relations or business... economics.. something along those lines.. not anything like U Penn cuz that's too hard to get into


any ideas? here are my stats...
SAT: 1270 (680M, 590V) :-/
SAT II: writing : 710
math IC : 700
spanish : 750
ACT: 28
GPA: overall 4.16 W
jr. year 4.42 W
rank: my school doesn't rank but i know i'm in the top 10% out of like 850

Lots of EC (ie... comm service, sports, awards, bla bla bla...)

schools like occidental..or UC davis? are those matches?
what are some other schools that could be matches with my stats???

thanks


Bethany

By Carolyn (Carolyn) on Friday, July 23, 2004 - 04:05 pm: Edit

Bethany, Try these schools:

Pitzer (match/reach)
Scripps (match/reach)
Claremont McKenna (reach)
Occidental (match/reach)
University of Redlands (safety/match)
University of San Diego (match)
Pepperdine (match)
University of the Pacific (safety)
Santa Clara University (match)

Pepperdine and USD are larger schools but have a small school feel so are worth considering.

If you're interested in the UC's, you might like UC Santa Cruz or UCSD because they have smaller colleges-within-colleges that can make them feel smaller. If you're instate, many of the UC's will be a match for you. Exceptions will be UCLA, UCB and UCSD which should all be considered reaches due to your SAT I scores. (However, a reach doesn't mean you can't get in!). However, if you're an out of state student, these three schools will be high reaches for you as will UCDavis and UCSB as it is very hard to get into one of the UC's as an out of state student.

I listed Occidental as a reach for you because they have become very selective in the past few years as applications rose. Their average SAT is now in the mid 1300's. However, they like geographic diversity so if you're applying from out of state, you may get a boost.

Hope this helps!

By Bettypep05 (Bettypep05) on Saturday, July 24, 2004 - 03:12 am: Edit

hey thanks so much...


anyone else wanna comment?

how bout tulane? no??
univ. wisc @ madison?
uc davis? match?

By Alexandre (Alexandre) on Saturday, July 24, 2004 - 03:30 am: Edit

Betty, make up your mind. You said you wanted a small school, preferably in California and then you ask about Wisconsin-Madison!!! LOL

Well, let me just say that Madison is awesome, if you don't mind the cold. It is a great university, a great campus and an awesome town.

Here are schools I would look into. The list is similar to Carolyn's actrually, but since you mentioned Madison, I modified the list a little:

Reaches:
Pomona
Claremont McKenna
Occidental
Michigan-Ann Arbor (I wasn't going to add it, but you did ask about Wisconsin. If you decide to apply to Michigan, apply in September...not later)


Matches:
Wisconsin-Madison
Pitzer
Scripps
Tulane
Pepperdine
Santa Clara


Safeties:
U of Pacific

By L0serchild99 (L0serchild99) on Thursday, July 29, 2004 - 02:16 pm: Edit

My SAT score was a little higher than yours, but I got into the L&S Honors program at UW-Madison, so that's no problem for you - your GPA is probably higher than mine was.

good luck!