<p>@amroy67 - Thanks! Yes, we are excited. It is his 1st acceptance. We shall what he decides to do about UML. Still waiting to hear from RIT, UConn, UMass Amherst, UNH, URI, Roger Williams and Western New England Univ. We only live about 20-25 min from UML so commuting is definitely an option if he decides to go there but we will wait till we have all the offers and then decide.</p>
<p>Although since he did so well on his last SATs (Up 200 points) he has to decided to give it a go and apply to RPI and WPI too. We shall see what happens.</p>
<p>@joedon - Congrats on your son’s acceptances. Salve Regina!!! Have spent many hours in Newport. Hard to beat that view!</p>
<p>Hey can my fellow average students/students parents suggest some colleges for me in the northeast area that may give me some merit money? I have a 1780 SAT with about a 3.3 cumulative GPA (top 55%) (very upward trending, and will be a little higher next year.) and I also may slightly improve my SAT since I’m only a current junior, and taking a two week class this spring.</p>
<p>Thanks guys and @confusedmom I am most likely going to study biology, possibly pre-med but I hear that’s a not such a good idea. Small to mid-size school and the only city I really like is Boston, otherwise I’m more into suburb campuses.</p>
<p>Just checked Monmouth and Hofstra out, they are very intriguing. Thanks a lot for those suggestions! You guys just made my college choice a lot harder!!</p>
<p>Maybe Roger Williams (in Bristol RI, only 25 min from Newport!). When we were there in April they said they had merit money for a certain SAT score and GPA (not too high) although they have since become test optional so i don’t know how that is going to affect the merit aid situation. Western New England Univ on the outskirts of Springfield Mass has automatic merit aid for SAT and GPA. They have the information right on their website. [Merit</a> Aid](<a href=“Admissions | Western New England University”>Admissions | Western New England University)</p>
<p>have you done any of the college searches either on this website or collegeboard.org to try and narrow down your choices?</p>
<p>I use naviance to check if their Average-high SAT is in my range. And then I use a website called parchment. You plug in your GPA, Class rank,SAT scores and EC’s and they give you your chances at schools based on the % of students that got in with your stats, for instance they have me a 33% at boston U, 59% at northeastern, 79% chance at UMass Amherst, and a 99% chance at UMass Boston, Monmouth, and Hofstra. I have a college board account but I never really go on there for anything but signing up for SATs.</p>
<p>so i have a 2.7 ,yeah, im lazy, but i took the sat and got 1820. I live in California so i applied to the the 4 csu schools for free: san francisco, sacramento, east bay, channel islands, i also applied to oregon state, kansas, there are some other schools that have later deadlines, but am i screwed?</p>
<p>W GPA 3.4
UW GPA 3.2
SAT Score: 1850 (1230)
A lot of extracurricular activities and over 400 hours of community service
6 AP Classes
53rd in a class of 119</p>
<p>Accepted:
Stetson ($17,000 Scholarship)
Fordham
George Mason
USF
FSU
Depaul</p>
<p>Waiting on:
University of Illinois UC (Deferred from EA)
UChicago (Defered from EA, Huge Reach but also my dream school)
University of Miami (Second choice, also a huge reach)
Rollins College
Marquette
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities</p>
<p>To any Juniors or anyone that hasn’t started applying yet, if you haven’t heard about the CommonApp yet, use it! It makes life so much easier.</p>
I also apply for the financial aid</p>