Asian, avg GPA

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Junior in HS:
Classes I took this year:
AP psychology
Physics Honors
Pre Calc Honors
English Honors
History Honors
GPA: 85-86(unweighted, will try to raise senior year)
SAT: 1630 (planning to take again, hopefully 2000+)
Ethnicity: Asian
Location: NJ
Possible Majors: Comp. Science or Engineering
Sports: Marching Band & Tennis
Clubs: President of Asian club, history club, spanish club, piano club, key club
Volunteer: Red Cross
Colleges I am looking at: Rutgers, NJIT, BU, Quinnipiac, Penn State, Drexel, Seton Hall, TCNJ*,Syracuse, Virginia Tech, Stevens, UMass, NorthEastern, UMich, RPI
*Sister attends TCNJ

What are my chances are these colleges?

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Classes for next year:
AP Comp Science
AP English
AP Calc
Leaving early for internship program

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Do you mind some recommendations for smaller Catholic Schools?

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No, but I’m not Catholic. Are my stats that bad?

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You need to focus on different schools as a B student. Some on your list are a very long shot. I live in NJ too, and you might get into Rutgers. TCNJ has become very hard. AVG SATs are about 1900 now.

Michigan, RPI, U Mass, Northeastern, BU, Stevens are very selective. Penn State and VT will be very hard OOS with those stats and no money.

Quinnipiac is a good idea. I would add Scranton, St Michael’s (Vermont), Susquehanna College, Rowan (in state), Marist, St. Anselm, Siena College, Ithaca College, Manhattan College, Loyola Maryland, St. Bonaventure and maybe Providence College. It just so happens many good schools for B students are Catholic.

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Rowan? Not flashy, but might be good to have it on the list. Ave SAT looks around 1650, average GPA around 3.5.

A friend studied ME there, otherwise I’d probably not have heard of it.

I’m no expert on chances, but the average and middle 50 for some of the schools on your list are considerably above what you’ve posted. At Michigan, for example the average is like SAT (reading writing math) is like 2050, and the average GPA is around 3.8 (is like 95/100). That DOES NOT mean you can’t try, but you might be happier and more relaxed with fewer shiny things on The List.

Of course if the reading and math were both 700 and the writing was 100, ignore what I wrote.

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If I were to raise it to 2000, what are my chances to my other choices?

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Try Temple, also.

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I think Michigan is probably a bridge too far for you.

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Rowan has an excellent engineering school. Ranked very highly and the facilities are new.

The campus is actually very nice with an area called Rowan Boulevard with retail and nice housing.

Try taking the SAT again. Don’t be upset.

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get that SAT up and penn state and tech could be a high match for you

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Solid bc Asian. Nice jobe with the prez of Asian club, should help a lot. Try to beef up the ECs and get bettr SAT score.

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Thanks guys, keep this thread going pls!

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Sat is quite low. My cousins go to BU and Northeastern and both of them were in the 1900s to 2000. My sister got into Rutgers and hers were in the 1900s also (she went to NYU). I don’t know if it’s true, but I’ve heard that some colleges are more “strict” towards asians and expect higher grades than average. :confused: Suggest going onto Findthebest.com to check what acceptance range your in.

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Gpa is good get a 1850 and you got a good chance at all most all those schools

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my brother is in the same boat as you. (asian, 1700 SAT, gpa in B range, but great ECs and hours). what do you wanna major in?

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Engineering or computee science