Wow, you guys are so awesome!!!
Thanks so much for your advice!!!!! I feel better now - hopefully my writer's block will go away soon, as I think I should start on my essay (or at least essay IDEAS, blech,
) ASAP!!!
Anyway, these are the schools that are on my list so far...
UC Davis (I really want to go there, I think...)
UC Irvine (I want to go there, too...)
UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Cruz
UC San Diego (total far shot though...I know 4.0ers that had a 1400 SAT who didn't get accepted...)
Pepperdine (maybe?? the parents don't seem to think it's worth the $$$$$)
USC (Amy!!!!! I AM going to apply
I just got their application in the mail the other day!)
Santa Clara University (not sure yet?)
Boston Univ. and the Univ. of Rochester (totally not sure...good schools but so far away...)
In all of these schools that I listed, I'm not sure AT ALL if their psychology and education programs are strong. I know, for example, that UC Davis is great for science (they are basically known for that), but I'm not sure about psych and edu.
Do you all think it means anything if psychology is listed among the most popular majors?
Amy, USC's Rossier School of Education sounds really, really good (seems like one of the best from their viewbook, at least, haha). Do you know if it is?
You guys have certainly proved to me how important college visits are
. I have a question though - do you recommend visiting with a college-student-tour guide, or just looking around on your own?
Thanks again SO much you guys - each one of your responses have been so very helpful for me!!! Thanks for sharing your stories
. And sorry for the wealth of questions
!!!!
Now this last part is for Rob - actually, you know what...I was highly considering Boston Univ. and the Univ. of Rochester for awhile (until a few days ago)...but I recently decided that going so far away from home just would be hard on me (plus I don't think my Mom's even going to let me board the plane
, my Dad's so-so about it)...they're also trying to convince me that the weather's really horrible back East and I'll be miserable, being that I'm a California girl. Yet, despite all of that...I'm still thinking about BU and the Univ. of Rochester. Did you ever become homesick going from Iowa to Boston? I'm just kinda wary about applying to these two schools, b/c even though they are really good schools, they are also private...and all the plane-tickets and such will add up!!
I got the BU viewbook + application 2 days ago...and the campus is gorgeous!!! Charles River and the "BU Beach" (do you guys really call it that?) look really nice. Plus Commonwealth Street or whatever it's called! I'm just not sure if I should apply or not! Do you know if psychology and education are strong programs at BU?
Oh yeah, don't you think that the SAT Verbal is basically a huge vocabulary test? That's why I'm FINALLY starting to do my homework (after procrastinating for months!
), memorizing vocab and making flash cards and such.
Also, about the SAT II's, I'm going to take the mandatory SAT II-Writing and the SAT II-Math (mandatory for the UC's ughh), plus an additional (mandatory) one that is up to you - I'm thinking of taking the Literature one. Have you heard anything about that? I'm definitely gonna go buy some preparation books...maybe I'll even take a few Kaplan classes (I took Kaplan for the SAT I's, and it helped tremendously.) Wow, the Chem SAT II is supposedly the hardest of all the SAT II's! Even ppl who excel in AP Chem supposedly had a rough time taking it. Well, sorry for soo many questions!! Thanks a lot Rob
!!!
P.S. You know how the universities that are interested in you will correspond with you, sending information, viewbooks, applications and such? Umm, after sending the reply-cards for the Univ. of Rochester a few times, I think that recently, after deciding that going so far away from home isn't for me, I threw out the final reply-card!
I think I'm gonna go online to try to get an application again...
[This message has been edited by newbie (edited July 16, 2001).]