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My name’s Lauren and I’m a junior in my highschool. I wanted to get someone else’s input on which schools I could get into for college. I want to reach for the best I can and challenge myself in college, so I’m going to list my extracurriculars and my grades, and then the list of colleges I’m interested in.

1. My freshman and sophomore year i didn’t do so well and therefore, right now, my overall GPA is about a 3.1
2. I’ve taken accelerated history my freshman and sophomore years, but not my junior year, and this year i don’t have any accelerated classes.
3. I’m planning on taking accelerated english and history again my senior year, along with sociology at Juniata college.
4. i’m ranked in the top 30% of my class, alongside 185 other classmates.
5. I’m caucasian and have lived in PA all of my life.
6. I’m lutheran and am involved in church youth groups and activities, i have gone on church retreats and volunteer my time to my church.
7. I have acted in my spring musical every year of highschool and had a pretty big role in each of them (Not main character, but i’ve gotten callbacks for main character.. i’ve also had solo’s)
8. I’ve been a member of my school choir for 3 years
9. I was a member of student council my freshman year
10. I was a member of the key club my sophomore year, and elected secretary my junior year.
11. Next year i will most likely do key club again, along with student council. I have many volunteering hours
12. I have had job experience- working at subway and working at my community pool this summer.
13. I have played Varsity tennis for my school for 3 years, and plan on playing next year
14. I joined my school’s ski club this year and will also be doing it next year.
15. For my senior project I will be volunterring at the local hospital for about 25 hours or so.
16. I just recently took the SAT’s and i haven’t gotten the answers back yet.
17. I’m planning on taking the ACT’s also.
18. My family is financially stable, but i don’t want to spend too much for college so i’m hoping for financial aid.

I’m hoping to go to school for some kind of business, maybe study pre-law. My mom is an insurance agent for commercial lines so I suppose that’s where I got it from. I can’t decide on whether or not I’d like to study public relations, Marketing and management, or business law. Anything of the sort… so, i was looking at these colleges.

Temple U
Arcadia for pre law
University of pitt, main campus
PSU main
DeSales
Duquesne
Dickinson
Juniata College
Washington and Jefferson
Saint Joseph’s University
Villanova University
Alvernia College
Albright University
Chatham University- maybe.

If anyone could help me out with this, that would be great!!! I just want to know what colleges i could apply to that would maybe be a reach, or a sure thing. I don’t have too much time left.
i’m also planning on raising my GPA to about a 3.3 by the end of my senior year, or a 3.4 by some lucky chance. any info you know on any of those schools and my chances would be helpful, thanks!
i’m sure i will find alot more things to add details about this, but i was also wondering what schools were good with studying abroad? I think it would be fun to study in England or something. any knowledge would be helpful, thanks again!

By: Lauren S