<p>son with 2.9 gpa and 1310 SATs, wanting school in mid-atlantic, northeast, ohio or indiana...any suggestions? - parents prefer smaller, he wants bigger school with good sports teams - are there any decent schools for safe bets that are not cc's?</p>
<p>1310 m/v I assume......?? good score...</p>
<p>are you coming from a private or public? just trying to get a context for GPA.</p>
<p>Need more information.</p>
<p>-Extracurriculars?</p>
<p>-Ethnicity?</p>
<p>-Coming from Public/Private? </p>
<p>If possible, your son should challenge himself senior year in tough classes while still maintaining good grades to show an upward trend.</p>
<p>A 2.9 GPA will not require community college, believe me.</p>
<p>2.97 here.</p>
<p>I applied to:</p>
<p>SUNY: Binghamton, Buffalo, Brockport
Temple University
Le Moyne College
Howard University
Norfolk State University
Drexel University
Coppin State</p>
<p>And I looked into Nazareth and would have applied but my BF, now ex was the reason I was actually considering it.</p>
<p>By the way, I've already gotten into LeMoyne. Waiting on the others though.</p>
<p>I have between a 2.90-3.10 gpa (long story why I'm not sure) and 2030 SAT. I applied to:</p>
<p>Wake Forest
St Olaf
Rhodes
Sewanee
Furman
Illinois Wesleyan</p>
<p>I think I'm shooting way too high, but whatever, lol. What was his composite GPA?</p>
<p>^ what was his composite SAT****</p>
<p>...is what I meant.</p>
<p>1310 is math verbal or Math Verbal Writing... cuz 1310 overall cuts off A LOT of colleges i have in mind</p>
<p>Look at the SUNYs</p>
<p>I have only a 3.02 GPA (+2070 SATs). I applied to:</p>
<p>OSU
U. Washington
U. San Diego
USC
U. Colorado (Boulder)
U. Illinois (rejected...)
Purdue
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
U. Rochester
Lehigh</p>
<p>Most of these are reaches for me, but i have an extreme upward grade pattern, and addressed some extenuating circumstances in my application...So I guess that where you will be able to get in with a 2.9ish has a lot to do with the rest of your application, too.</p>
<p>thanks so much- this was my first time writing here... SAT, first time, was 700 verbal, 600 math, 650 written; gpa does not show upward trend yet, but I'm hopeful that end of jr. year report card will; he attends a prestigious (for our area) private school, varsity baseball 4 years, wrestling 1 year, student paper, summer work experience, elected member of student panel; thanks again</p>
<p>^^HUGE difference if you are private........2.9-3.0 is probably top 40-50% of the class with a very small range....at our private the highest GPA is probably 3.6-3.7 UW.....</p>
<p>1) is he a possible recruited athlete for baseball?
2) is your school a feeder for schools like Georgetown, or Emory? (not suggesting those schools, just a point of reference)
3) does your school have a Naviance program, so you can see how comparable students did with admissions?</p>
<p>Large schools (publics, in particular) may not understand if your HS is rigorous, doesn't weight GPA's, etc....</p>
<p>some ideas:
Miami of Ohio
Indiana (SAT will get him in, imo)
Clemson
Alabama
Arizona State</p>
<p>privates:</p>
<p>Syracuse (arts & sci)</p>
<p>if I think of more, i'll post later......general geographic reference would help....</p>
<p>Well with this new info I suggest that you also look at George Mason University, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Temple University.</p>
<p>I have a 3.0 GPA and a 2050 SAT... 31 ACT... 710 Math 2 and 600 US History</p>
<p>I've heard back from these colleges so far:</p>
<p>Tufts (applied ED2) Denied
Arizona State Accepted
Drexel Accepted
UIUC Denied
Ohio State Accepted
Penn State Denied
Purdue Accepted</p>
<p>so despite my crap-tastic GPA i can go to Ohio State which is a pretty good school...
but i had a pretty strong course load with my senior courses being:
AP Calc BC, English 4, AP Biology, Psychology, Econ/Gov, AP Environmental Science</p>