<p>Well, to say I slacked off is an understatement. My grades aren't near where I want them to be, and it may have cost me a chance to go to college, but my SAT scores were decent, so I'm holding out hope. I will be a senior this year, so there's not much else I can do. Here are my stats, and any help is appreciated:</p>
<p>GPA- 2.4-2.5</p>
<p>SAT's
Critical Reading: 500
Math: 530
Writing: 560 (Mult. Choice 52, Essay 9)</p>
<p>EC's</p>
<p>Basketball (9th, 11th, 12th)
Baseball (12th)
Representative for student council (10th, 11th)
Job from this summer through the summer after I graduate
Other jobs including babysitting, mowing grass, etc.</p>
<p>And here is my list of schools:</p>
<p>Towson
Monmouth
Shippensburg
Millersville
LaSalle
UT-Knoxville</p>
<p>The school I have questions about is LaSalle. How is the school in general, specifically the area? I've always been hesitant about going to college in the Philadelphia area and was wondering what other people thought. Thanks.</p>
<p>A bump, but I have added some schools in the Philly area due to doubts about La Salle, and also some fallback schools:</p>
<p>Targets:</p>
<p>Towson
Monmouth
Shippensburg
Millersville
La Salle
Rider
Delaware Valley
Tennessee-Knoxville</p>
<p>Fallback Plans:</p>
<p>Clarion
Bloomsburg</p>
<p>I've never heard of those schools, so I don't know.</p>
<p>However, you are really going to want to rock first semester senior year.</p>
<p>I recently visited Bard and the dean of admissions said that if a person's SAT scores are better than their grades, it is usually a sign of a slacker, and that is a turnoff for them. Just something to think about.</p>
<p>For my area, Monmouth is where the rich kids who don't want to go to CC go. You'll get in.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info.</p>
<p>Bump.</p>
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<p>Not even UT-Knoxville? Damn.</p>
<p>Juicy, this may be offtopic, but I had a 3.2 GPA and a 30 ACT and Bard didn't seem to care.</p>
<p>Of the ones I know: Monmouth, Lasalle, and Towson are all good bets.
Unofrtunately UT Knoxville is a reach for ya. A few years ago it might have been a solid bet but not anymore.
U would have a chance if u raise ur SAT scores to at least an 1100 (CR + M)
and get an excellent essay. Otherwise its a big time reach.</p>
<p>Suggestions:
- St. Johns University: in NYC and has solid programs in Law, Business and Pharmacy. Also has a good sports scene (Baskteball) if ur into that. despite a reasonable tuition, they offer free Laptops to all entering students (Nice perk)
U might like it so take a look at it. </p>
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<li><p>St. Josephs: in Philly. Its sorta like St. Johns just in PHilly and in an upscale part of Philly. Unlike St. Johns, St. Josephs is a rich kid school with a very big price tag. </p></li>
<li><p>Suffolk: In the historic part of Boston. nice surrounding area but not much of a campus. If u like Boston consider it.</p></li>
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<p>Thanks for those recommendations. I was looking at St. John's for a little bit, but I'm not too big on going to school in NYC. It's too big of a place for me. I always thought St. Joe's was too hard to get into, so I never really gave it any thought, and actually I was really interested in going to school in the Boston area, I'll have to check Suffolk out.</p>
<p>never heard of any of them.
You should go to a JC, get good grades, and transfer to somewhere better if you feel you are up for it.</p>
<p>Never. I'm not going down that road if I can get into a college. I'd rather not go to school at all than go to JC or CC.</p>
<p>why? I mean for someone to say they would never go to JC or CC only really makes sense if you can go somewhere where you get an outstanding education.</p>
<p>But Ive never heard of the schools you listed, so the quality of education is probably just like if you did 4 years of CC.
It wont be any more challneging. The only thing that will challenge you would be something much tougher.</p>
<p>It sounds better when you tell people that you went to a university and not a community or junior college. I care what people think, and that's the main reason why I'd make that decision. </p>
<p>And just because you've never heard of the school and the name of it isn't Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, Dartmouth, etc., doesn't mean it's a bad place to go.</p>
<p>nobody ever said u had to go to HYPS. But it makes more sense to get a better education at somewhere like penn state than to get an unimpressive education at an unimpressive school, with unimpressive professors.</p>
<p>You dont have to tell people you went to CC.
People ask u where u went to college, you say your college and you are done.
You dont have to say to them, " i went to UCDavis, but it doesnt really count as going because i actually went to CC so i am not really deserving of the title "graduate of UC Davis" since i didnt do my general ed there."</p>
<p>And even if u did say that for some reason, its not like they would think you are a loser.</p>
<p>It's not like I couldn't transfer from a university anyway. I'd die to get a near 4.0 in college and transfer to Duke like I've always wanted to.</p>
<p>i have pretty much the same grades as you do (and similar SAT's) and looking into similar schools. I understand what you mean about going to a CC. I'm ready to have "the college experience" and get out of texas!!!! More suggestions to the OP would be helpful to me also.</p>
<p>BTW im looking at Suffolk, Marymount Manhattan, and San Francisco State in addition to others.</p>
<p>Try not to hijack my thread next time. </p>
<p>Still open to hearing recommendations/chances at my listed schools. For anyone that doesn't look at the first page, the list is: </p>
<p>Towson
Monmouth
Shippensburg
Millersville
La Salle
UT-Knoxville</p>
<p>I got rid of the extra schools closer to Philly with the exception of La Salle.</p>
<p>BRO ima give you the full truth(no offence), you really messed 1590 is not a descent score 2.5 is a gpa tht colleges look and laugh at just go to a community college and transfer if you want some sort of future in anything you slacked off now but you pay for it later, you can still save your self by transfering end of story. Only other way u can get in is if your a tremendous bball player and ur the next lebron james other than tht your hopes for going str8 out to a good school are pretty much gone...</p>