1570 on my SAT..can i go to college?

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<p>ACT: take a couple of practice tests and decide. Take with a grain of salt this snippet I found on the web: The ACT has easier questions, but less time per question.
Emory: I skimmed the website, and thought that Oxford-Emory does not add years to the BA if the student meets a minimum 2.75 GPA. Let me know if I am wrong.</p>

<p>Private schools > Public schools is a gross over simplification to the point of being wrong, and certainly not useful as a starting point for you. If I am not mistaken, Vet school depends on grades and entrance exam. If you go to a demanding school and consistently finish towards the bottom of classes, your GPA alone will likely exclude you from Vet school. If you go to a crap school that gives high grades to most, you may not learn enough to place high in the qualifying exam.</p>

<p>Solution: go to a decent school WHEN YOU ARE READY. 13th grade High Schools and community colleges are two places I would consider in your shoes.</p>

<p>Your problem is a lot more common than we all admit. It seems obvious and logical to focus at the end of HS on college admission, but it is a mistake to ignore likelihood of college success, and the chance that our bachelor’s degree experience will prove to be the ticket we are looking for into professional school or graduate school or career choice. The country is riddled with young people who spent a lot of money in college and did not get what they were hoping for afterwards. Lots of reasons for this, but you can look ahead and increase your chances of not finding yourself in a dead-end five years from now by some open-eyed planning.</p>

<p>I hope I am not sounding terribly negative, but I’d like to warn you against naivete. Schools are businesses, and you are a paying customer. Both of you would certainly prefer that you do outstandingly well in college, but if a college has to choose between only picking students they have a high degree of confidence in succeeding, or including students they doubt will succeed but will allow the college to operate profitably, they choose the latter course. And at that juncture, they are not operating in your best interests if you will turn out to be a weak student in their college.</p>

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<p>Perhaps this story will be instructive:</p>

<p>A woman I work with was a very good student in HS. She measured herself as “the bottom of the top of a big, successful HS.” The top top of her class went to Ivy league schools and graduate/professional schools afterwards. She was accepted to MIT, but chose SUNY Stony Brook instead. She wanted to go to medical school, and chose the difficult Biochemistry major, rather than the easier Biology major. In her senior year of college, as part of a biochemistry major, she had to take differential equations in required maths, and quantum mechanics as part of required physical chemistry. She tried her best, but barely scraped by with a ‘C-’ in these classes – and that only after the class grades were curved. She lost her confidence and dropped out of pre-med. Compared to the (small) group of kids who were getting an ‘A’ in these classes, she was clearly a cut below.</p>

<p>None of us know if she would have made it to medical school and had a successful career as an MD had she chosen a less demanding, but adequately preparatory college experience. All this story tells me, and hopefully you, is smart student-college-major matching is damned important.</p>