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Is my college list realistic?
Hello,
I asked this question previously, but wanted few more opinions. Most people at my school are applying to really different types of schools, so I am having a hard time deciding whether my college list is realistic. Do you think I have a reasonable chance at these schools? Thanks!
Safety:
University of Mary Washington
Match:
College of the Holy Cross
Smith
Bryn Mawr
University of Maryland-College Park
Reach:
Bodwoin or Middlebury College
GW Scholarship Program (obviously can’t chance me for this)
Wellesley (maybe Yale if I do well on ACT)
Here are my stats:
GPA: 3.9 (UW) 4.07 (UW)
By end of senior year will have: 6 AP and 2 college course at a pretty highly regarded university
AP Scores:
AP US- 5, AP Art History-5, AP Language- 4
SAT: 1900 (took the ACT and waiting for scores)
SAT II: US History- 790, Lit.- 700,
Rank: 2 out of 112
Interests: History, maybe minor in a language
State Residency: Not in-state for any of the schools mentioned
Ex:
-Piano (3 years)
-Youth Group
-unofficial co-founder of mom’s non-profit
- one internship at art museum
-work experience at a public library
-lacrosse camp
-theatre camps/classes
-saturday academy
-volunteer work at museum and non-profit
Planned for 12th grade:
-Literary Magazine
-National Honor Society
-Researching for a historian for his book
Awards:
AP Scholar, Honor Roll
Thanks for any responses!
With your current standing and extracurriculars, I’d say that your list is very realistic. Keep up the good work! Good luck!
What do you think of my college list?
Hello,
I just wanted a few opinions on my college list and whether I was aiming in the right area. Thanks!
Safety:
University of Mary Washington
Match:
College of the Holy Cross
Smith
Bryn Mawr
University of Maryland-College Park
Reach:
Bodwoin College
GW Scholarship Program (obviously can’t chance me for this)
Here are my stats:
GPA: 3.9 (UW) 4.07 (UW)
By end of senior year will have: 6 AP and 2 college course at a pretty highly regarded university
AP Scores:
AP US- 5, AP Art History-5, AP Language- 4
SAT: 1900 (I am going to try the ACT)
SAT II: US History- 790, Lit.- 700, (take more later…)
Rank: 2 out of 111
Interests: English, maybe minor in a language
State Residency: Not in-state for any of the schools mentioned
Ex:
-Piano (3 years)
-Youth Group
-unofficial co-founder of mom’s non-profit
- one internship at art museum
-work experience at a public library
-lacrosse camp
-volunteer work at museum and non-profit
Planned for 12th grade:
-Literary Magazine
-National Honor Society
-Researching for a historian for his book
Awards:
AP Scholar, Honor Roll
Thanks for any responses!
You’re ranked second in your class, Ivies would be totally reasonable for you, even with low SATs. I’m surprised there isn’t one on your list.
The average GPA at Bowdoin is apparently a 3.8, which makes it a match school for you, not a reach.
What are you goals? I’m guessing your goal is scholarship money, in which case I would recommend upping your schools applied to 10-12. I’m also guessing you’re a DC resident, in which case you may want to apply to some schools further afield like University of Oregon, Rice, Grinell, etc.
Why Do “Educated” People Fail To Seek To Be Informed Before Expressing their “Definite Opinions”?
Shouldn’t one of the fundamental goals of education be to teach the sort of critical thinking skills that enable one to consider all sides of a situation before forming a thesis or hypothesis (never mind a mere “opinion”)? It sure is a primary goal in our home anyway.
How I wish it were also the case in our public schools. Yet, how can we expect public school students to learn critical thinking skills when their own *teachers* lack them?
On this very day, under a YA Home Schooling thread, a public school teacher claiming to have both “18 years of experience” and “definite opinions on home-schooling” advised an earnest mom seeking to home school her 5th grader that “if you have aspirations of college scholarships, there are none for children who are home-schooled.”
What? Where has this teacher been?? That home schoolers RECEIVE scholarships, a good many of them to top-rated schools, is not only a FACT, it is OLD news. http://www.collegescholarships.org/scholarships/homeschool.htm
http://homeschooling.about.com/od/highschool/a/colleges.htm
http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2000/novdec/articles/homeschooling.html
Moreover, for years now, even without college scholarships, homeschoolers have been legally eligible for financial aid. [Higher Education Act Amendments of 1998 (Pub. L. No. 105-244)]
http://www.collegescholarships.org/scholarships/homeschool.htm
Wow. If teachers themselves either lack or don’t want to bother with their own critical thinking skills (never mind impart such skills to their students), one would hope they would at least bother to get their facts straight.
As requested, the link to the thread in question is:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090301063216AALCs0l&pa=FZB6NXXtFWMW0cLWwekf.W_oH5V2CmXKNXyM7mw0PHVl1RoVQM4-&paid=add_watch
Thanks to you ALL for your answers.
Svengteach ~ You provide an interesting perspective, having not only taught in the public schools, but also now in the community college system. As a concerned educator, I share in your observations and certainly value your input. Thank you for your answer!
Jolie ~ Thank you for requesting the thread (I hadn’t thought about it remaining “forever” on that searchable thread—yikes!) Thanks not only for your answer here, but very much also for your answer under that thread.
Shiori_hime ~ You raise a very good point that the lack of critical thinking skills leaves one prone to merely parroting lies and popular misconceptions. It seems that as a culture, we are increasingly (and alarmingly) deficient in the skills necessary to make informed decisions, or to form knowledgeable opinions. I also so agree with what you said about “conformity” and “multiple intelligences” on the other thread. Very well said. I appreciate your answer (s)!
BraxOwl ~ Thank you, not only for your answer here, but also for your answer under the other thread. Thank goodness you are teaching your children to research and think for themselves, for we need more like them (and you!) in this world. Without these skills, we, as a culture, become increasingly less educated (despite being “schooled”) and dangerously more ignorant, all of which put our nation in jeopardy, on numerous levels. I also so agree with what you said on the other thread about conformity and different learning styles. Thanks so much for all your input!
Pepe ~ Thank you for your thoughtful and balanced response. I certainly appreciate your viewpoint as a fellow teacher. You are certainly right that, this being the Internet, people make ridiculous statements they’d never make in person. I also agree that one teacher’s reply on Yahoo Answers doesn’t mean that *all* teachers share the same opinions or misinformation. (continued below)
While I also agree that “no profession has members who are all perfect in their ability to reason and think critically,” my primary concern is that teachers, from whom children are legally required to learn, are not teaching the critical thinking and research skills that enable our children to become truly educated (and not merely “schooled”). As a people, when we lack the skills necessary to think critically and independently, we become increasingly (and too often dangerously) dependent on the biased opinions spewed forth by the media, as well as on popular misconceptions (that themselves are often spawned by various sensationalism-driven media).
My concern wasn’t so much with the anti-homeschooling opinion itself as it was with the misinformation on which the opinion was founded. I have no problem with opinions that differ from my own, and in fact welcome them, as long as they are well thought out and based on facts and creditable information.
(continued)
As far as homeschooling goes, I myself don’t even think it is right for everyone. Then again, I don’t think public school is right for everyone either. Every child is different, as are their circumstances, so I go by a case-by-case basis. Nevertheless, I can’t deny that the deficiencies I’ve seen in our public education system over the past three decades seem to be growing worse, not better, no matter how much money the government keeps throwing at it. The lack of critical thinking and research skills with which too many students are graduating nowadays is only one of those deficiencies.
In fairness to public school teachers (and I was one myself years ago), the amount of standardized testing, and the emphasis on school ratings, has skyrocketed over the past several years. Friends who have taught in the public elementary schools for years (in different parts of the country) tell me that being forced by their respective districts “to teach to the tests” has robbed them of being able to truly *teach* in the way they once did. They are under such pressure now that they complain of no longer having the TIME to present things for the children to first “observe and discover” (the pre-requisite for critical thinking). Instead, the teachers feel forced to race through material in a way that is distasteful and frustrating for them, as well as less than stimulating for the children. I see this even in our own public school district, which nonetheless is consistently rated #1 in the county. (continued…)
I certainly didn’t mean to single out any *one* teacher (on the Internet no less) because I see first-hand a lack of critical thinking skills in too many teachers at all levels in numerous different school districts, and certainly in students. As a private tutor at both the primary and secondary levels and a teacher of outside enrichment classes, I continue to be dismayed at how ill-prepared students are—especially and most alarmingly at the secondary level–to think critically or even to know how to begin to conduct research. Their willingness to simply *copy* others’ work is so widespread that the number of companies that write students’ papers for them has exploded, the demand is so high.
Thank you so much again for your answer, as well as for providing us with another perspective “from the front,” as it were.
Once again, thanks to all of you for your great answers!
You are absolutely correct, teaching critical thinking skills should be part of education. Unfortunately, mass public education is often less concerned with teaching useful skills (like critical thinking) or even teaching useful information than with imparting a particular worldview. You can see this sort of thing very clearly in the way history classes are taught, but it’s present in all subjects. That’s why so many people are so willing to keep parroting lies and popular misconceptions rather than actually research or listen to the information presented by people who actually know what they’re talking about.
Help with college? Please Answer!?
Hello,
I made some changes to my college list and got back my ACT scores; therefore, I was wondering if my list remained realistic in regards to my stats. I was also wanted a few opinions about whether I was putting the schools into the right categories? Thanks!
Safety:
University of Mary Washington
UMass Amherst or U of South Carolina
Match:
Smith
Bryn Mawr
UMD- College Park
College of the Holy Cross
Reach:
Middlebury
George Washington (looking for a particular scholarship so difficult to chance)
Wellesley
Here are my stats:
GPA: 3.9 (UW) 4.07 (UW)
Rank: 2 out of 112
Courseload:
By end of senior year will have: 6 AP (out of 8 possible) and 2 college course at a pretty highly regarded university
AP Scores:
AP US- 5, AP Art History-5, AP Language- 4
Testing:
SAT: 1900
ACT: 30 (I think I can do better, so retaking in December. Are ACT scores superscored?)
SAT II: US History- 790, Lit.- 700, (maybe Math II)
Interests: History, maybe minor in a language
Ex:
-Co-founder of mom’s non-profit organization
-Internships with an art museums(11) and a historian (12)
-Piano
-Youth Group
-Literary Magazine
-National Honor Society
-Work experience at a public library
-Lacrosse camp
-Theatre camps/classes
-Saturday academy
-Volunteer work at museum, non-profit, and library
Awards:
AP Scholar, National Honor Society
Thanks for any responses!
You have a very good chance at all of them. Middlebury will be the most difficult. They are esentially in right categories, though GW is not a reach for regular admission.
Narrowing down on a college / paying for college help!!?
Okay so I’m from a single parent home and my mom’s on disability… pretty much I have no money for college so I already know I’m going to have to get a lot of scholarships and financial aid. But what I’m struggling with is picking a school.
My ULTIMATE school would be Sarah Lawrence. I’m so in love with it, but have no money what so ever to pay for it so I don’t know why they keep tempting me with these letters about admission loll. ANYWAYS
I’m considering U of L, U of K ,Murray, USC, Clark-Atlanta, Spell-man, Georgetown, Miami Ohio… I think you see my point. I’m having trouble narrowing down a few schools to apply to loll.
As far as my academic background…. I’m in my senior year and I have a 3.8 gpa. I’ll be graduating with advanced program and I’ve taken advanced placement classes throughout high school. I was never really into after school stuff, one year I started my own school magazine, and I recently started big brothers big sisters but that’s about it.
My goal in life is to be an entrepreneur…. I want my own clothing store and restaurant and all that other type of stuff but for right now I plan to major in communications so I can do something like event planning and interacting with people. I know thats a lot to take in but yeah any constructive advice or help anyone has I’m open to thanks in advance.
go to collegeboard.com and it will guide you through all of the problems you have, good luck i guess…. btw im studying at KU and I had a single mom so i know it will work out ok for you.