I wanted to share my application story because I think it could give some hope to someone else in a similar situation. I graduated high school a part of the class of 2015.
My final grades for all 4 years were as follows:
A’s: 2
A-'s: 7
B+'s: 4
B’s: 4
B-'s: 3
C+'s: 2
C-'s: 2
Clearly, I was a very average student. The majority of my A-'s were in classes such as gym and health, classes not typically counted in college admissions. My SAT score that I submitted to my colleges was a 1670. The colleges I applied to were as follows:
Temple University
UMass Amherst
Keene State College
Roger Williams University
University of New Hampshire
University of Rhode Island
Marist College
Quinnipiac University
Emmanuel College
Boston University
Northeastern University
I got accepted to every school except Northeastern and I am now a freshman at Boston University. I didn’t have a magical number of EC’s, I did 2 clubs and cheerleading for 3 years of high school. I only had 40 community service hours. My application was nothing special. I just want those people out there with similar looking scores or grades to know that there is hope! A lot of the time on CC it is kids posting with 3.8 GPAs and 2010 SAT’s. It can really make a B student nervous. Put effort into your application and show a lot of interest in the schools you really like and you will be okay.
If anyone has any similar stories that will encourage B/C students or even stories of getting rejected from a good school and getting accepted to an even better one feel free to share!
