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  • I will be moving into my senior year of high school next year, and would like to get a headstart on looking for colleges. My high school only has one college counselor for everyone (there are only 18 seniors this year). She will not speak to me about colleges until May, even though I would like to start taking college trips during my Spring break (4/2/12 - 4/16/12). In all fairness, my high school tends to send kids out to CUNYs and SUNYs, which are completely respectable, only my family (and I) have slightly higher expectations. My school is incredibly small, and thus I am stuck taking the core classes (English, Math, Science, History) along with Photography and a second writing class which I elected to take. I am in all senior classes, and will therefore be retaking the same top-level classes again next year with my age group, except for Math, which I might not even be able to take as I am the only one who will be ready for Calculus next year. Most kids take my school as a joke, but I work for my grades along with playing sports, working with a theater group, and being a camp counselor over the summer. I want to go far with my education, and create for myself a good career path. I would like to go to a medium (2,000 to 10,000 students) size four year college/university with many extracurriculars, and good Psychology and English programs. I do not want to go to a school where I would be stuck under a pile of work, albeit do-able, but unable to do much else with my free time. I just don't know where I should be looking! What schools would you recommend based off of this information, and what level of schools would you consider appropriate? My SAT score was a 2140, and my overall high school GPA as of now is approximately 3.6. However, I have a current GPA of around 3.8. What sorts of schools should I be looking at? Thank you so much for those of you who actually take the time to read this long question and answer to help an almost-seventeen-year-old figure out what she's doing!

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    Just run a search using one of the free online college search services. I use collegeboard.com daily. Many of my students have used cappex.com. There are others. Your GPA will be recalculated - just academic courses and those on a 4.0 basis. Re-think your proposed majors. Psych and English grads are competing for jobs in call centers and Wal-Mart. Might as well go to the closest SUNY and not have any debts. STEM, Health Care, and Business grads get decent employment. Of the SUNYs, Bing is the highest ranked [stay away from the Social Work school]. Of the CUNYs, City Hunter and Baruch are all superb in different departments. FWIW - the brilliant daughter went to an extremely good liberal arts school, then Ivy for her MA. She just was accepted into a top-ranked PhD program.

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Just run a search using one of the free online college search services. I use collegeboard.com daily. Many of my students have used cappex.com. There are others. Your GPA will be recalculated - just academic courses and those on a 4.0 basis. Re-think your proposed majors. Psych and English grads are competing for jobs in call centers and Wal-Mart. Might as well go to the closest SUNY and not have any debts. STEM, Health Care, and Business grads get decent employment. Of the SUNYs, Bing is the highest ranked [stay away from the Social Work school]. Of the CUNYs, City Hunter and Baruch are all superb in different departments. FWIW - the brilliant daughter went to an extremely good liberal arts school, then Ivy for her MA. She just was accepted into a top-ranked PhD program.

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Use Google. You can search schools by size, location, degree program, and many other criteria-- maybe even activities (try). I expect you'll find a number of schools that meet all of your criteria, so you can read about them and identify some of interest. College websites give a wealth of information about their academic programs, qualifications needed for admission, campus life, and just about anything else. Often you can find additional sites, such as for teams and clubs and alumni, with more info.

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Use Google. You can search schools by size, location, degree program, and many other criteria-- maybe even activities (try). I expect you'll find a number of schools that meet all of your criteria, so you can read about them and identify some of interest. College websites give a wealth of information about their academic programs, qualifications needed for admission, campus life, and just about anything else. Often you can find additional sites, such as for teams and clubs and alumni, with more info.

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