After a year of giving my D college brochures to no avail, suddenly my rising senior has actually ASKED ME FOR SUGGESTIONS of LAC's to consider. She loves the Claremont consortium and plans to apply to Pomona, CMC and Scripps. She is considering majoring in chemistry but is pretty undecided so she needs to go somewhere with a broad liberal arts curriculum. We've run NPC's and don't expect to qualify for financial aid. So she would like to add more schools to her list where she may get merit aid. She has ruled out schools in the southeast and schools where it's really humid (e.g., Rice). This is a bit arbitrary I know, but there you go. She really doesn't want to go to a big university setting, and I agree she will be better off at a smaller LAC.
She has a 4.0 UW, 4.8 weighted GPA, 2340 SAT, SAT 2's are: Chemistry 800, Math 2 800, US History 770. She has taken 5 AP classes and gotten 5's on all the exams: Calc BC, Chemistry, US History, Statistics and World History. Her senior year courses will be Calc III, Physics Honors (school doesn't offer AP Physics), AP Bio II, AP Psychology, AP Gov/Econ, AP English Lit. Class rank hasn't come out yet but definitely in the top 5%. She has pretty good EC's (with more depth than breadth).
Her safeties are the honors colleges at our state universities. But she would really be happier at a LAC. Thanks for any suggestions!
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