<p>A good friend has a son who is a freshman at Sacred Heart and just LOVES it. He's a big marching band guy and the nicest kid too. Since he's been talking it up, several kids from our high school are applying this year.</p>
<p>I've mentioned this before but one of the nice things about Towson and the other schools in the Baltimore area is that they have an exchange program with each other so kids can take classes at schools like Johns hopkins, MICA, Goucher, Loyola, Towson. There's also a free bus that runs between the schools on a regular basis so they can partake of concerts and stuff as well as use each other's libraries. The internship opportunities in Baltimore seem pretty great, at least according to the internship board we looked at on the Goucher campus.</p>
<p>One other school that no one has mentioned yet is University of Maryland Baltimore County. It's particularly strong in the sciences.</p>
<p>another good school in PA is Elizabethtown College. Check it out. Rolling admissions, good FA (merit and need).</p>
<p>Chocolate-you and h went to Oswego too? Such a coincidence. Maybe that's why we're trying to avoid sending our kids upstate. I graduated a few years before you so our paths did not cross there. Who knows maybe the severe weather in Oswego got Al Roker interested in forcasting as he too is an Oswego Alumni. Anyway thanks for the info. I have not avoided looking at Catholic schools even though we're Jewish (and my older d did apply to Georgetown) but Marist and Sacred Heart (Conn?) are probably no warmer than SUNY Albany. I checked out the Villanova website and as the tuition is around $27,000, I quickly decided to look at other schools. UNC Wilmington was mentioned and as my d is a beach person, it seems a possibility. There seems to be a large TV/Film studio nearby so if anyone is interested in that field, it may be a school to look into. I was also given good and specific info on VA and NC universities. So you way want to check the thread -VA/NC knowledgable parents. Good luck to all with the college search.</p>
<p>There are a lot of fine colleges for 'B' students out there. We tend to concentrate only on the Ivy group...when this is such a tiny percentage of students.</p>
<p>How about Goucher?</p>
<p>Ithaca college is a good school for "B" students.</p>
<p>goucher^
wilmington v</p>
<p>this may not help you chocolate, since it doesn't sound like your son wants rural - but how about wells college - just went co-ed so guys may have an advantage. very small, rural NYS. tuition is a bargain - just under $15,000.</p>
<p>oh and syracuse has been mentioned by a few people - just fyi - i think syracuse is getting more selective as it is becoming a popular "safety" for a lot of ny'ers as other schools also get more selective. also they had about 500 more freshmen accept admission this year than they had planned for, so that may affect admissions for this coming year.</p>
<p>I started to read this post, and got excited for a moment b/c I thought Jamimom was back. I loved her posts. I then noticed that this was last year's thread being recirculated.:( It is good that this thread has come up b/c B students need some ideas.</p>
<p>Same here! Then I got to fendergirl's messages and thought -- wait, didn't she graduate?? LOL. </p>
<p>Still a good thread and needed from time to time (for people like me).</p>
<p>I also miss Jamimom. She was a true voice of wisdom, and I often wonder how her and her pack of children are doing. Sigh. :(</p>
<p>Other colleges for B (and in some cases even high "c") students: Whittier in California, Ripon in Wisconsin,
Clarkson in NY (great engineering program), Millikin University in Illinois,
University of North Dakota, University of South Dakota, University of Wyoming, University of Montana, Longwood in Virginia, Dominican College of California, Dominican U (Illinois), University of Portland (Oregon), Providence College (RI), Otterbein (OH), Muskigum College (OH), Guilford (NC). </p>
<p>Let's keep adding to the list for next year's seniors and juniors.</p>
<p>So many great options in the northeast:
University of Hartford
Quinnipiac
Providence College
Champlain
Roger Williams
Keene State
Salve Regina
Franklin Pierce
Suffolk
Adelphi
Elmira
Stonehill
bennington
Bryant
U Rhode Island
umass
Central CT
U New Hampshire</p>
<p>University of Vermont, St. Michael's</p>
<p>I'll add to huskem's Northeast list with another good Boston area option: Curry College. Offers merit aid for B students; great honors program. Strong majors in Nursing, Criminal Justice/Soc, Psych, Communications (including radio and TV - nice internships in Boston), Education and Management (also great for Boston internships) and Politics and History.
Great athletics - former NE Patriot is Athletic Director.</p>
<p>I started to mentally prepare a reply to the thread... and then I found I had replied to it a year ago!</p>
<p>For a minute, I, too, thought Jamimom was back and I do miss her and wonder how her crew is doing, particulary her freshman son at Yale. Thanks for everyone's input on this thread. I'm doing a search today for a student who is a B student but will likely have VERY low SATs and these cases are tricky and lots of these colleges are not even in the big fat college directories. Thanks for everyone's insights.
Susan</p>
<p>also should add springfield college- excellent programs in physical therapy and sports management</p>
<p>How about in California?</p>