<p>I'd prefer a private school but anything is ok. I was thinking St josephs in Philadelphia or Sacred Heart U in CT. Any other suggestions? or thoughts on my chances of getting into those 2 schools. I have a lot of sports and work experience too on my resume so i hope that helps. GPA - 2.7 SAT - 1670 (1130 without writing) 610 math 520 reading
And money isnt as big of a deal right now im more worried about getting in somewhere
Thanks.</p>
<p>First – find out exactly how much your parents are willing to pay each year for your college.</p>
<p>There are hundreds of private colleges in the U.S. where you could be admitted. The questions for you to answer are what exactly you want in your college experience, and how much you’re able to pay each year for it.</p>
<p>thanks, and my grandparents have set aside money for me to go to school so any college would be suitable</p>
<p>You can try the SUNYs</p>
<p>What is your home state? the SUNYs are a good idea. That’s awesome that your grandparents have money set aside for your college. Do you know if they have $200k set aside (the cost of many privates)? If they have less, then SUNYs would be a great choice. :)</p>
<p>LaSalle, Sacred Heart, Siena, St. Bonaventure, Canisius, LeMoyne, John Carroll University, Loyola New Orleans (an awesome school by the way), St. Louis University, Univ. of Scranton, Wheeling Jesuit, Univ. of Detroit-Mercy and Adelphi.</p>
<p>Better get on it, the RD deadline is approaching very very soon!</p>
<p>If you can afford out of state tuition you can also try admission at the University of Iowa. Its a really great school though they do have a RAI to help determine admission. I’m sure a lot of universities have this, though they just do not have it open to the public.
[Admission</a> to Iowa’s Regent Universities: Regent Admission Index](<a href=“http://www.regents.iowa.gov/RAI/index.html]Admission”>Regent Admission Index | Iowa Board of Regents)</p>
<p>If the grandparents have set aside $200k+ (do you know HOW MUCH they’ve set aside?), then there are a lot of choices. 
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<p>I agree with all of ghostbusters suggestions…plus…</p>
<p>Seton Hall
DePaul
Loyola Maryland
U Dayton
Stonehill
Springhill
St. John U</p>
<p>Find out exactly how much your grandparents are willing to pay each year or in total. Many parents/grandparents are shocked to find that the full costs of private colleges can be $50 k a year. Even for low cost public universities, tuition, room and board can cost $25 k or more. </p>
<p>After you find that out, figure out what you want: Urban, small town or rural atmosphere? Size of school (Size can range from fewer than 1,000 students to 50,000 students). Catholic or nonsectarian? Co-ed or female? Do you want a place where sports and Greek life are important? Are small classes important to you? Study abroad options? Research options? Any idea what you might want to major in or pursue for extracurricular activities.</p>
<p>Answering such questions will help us help you find the kind of college that meets your needs and dreams. There really are plenty of colleges that would be happy to accept you.</p>
<p>*Find out exactly how much your grandparents are willing to pay each year or in total. Many parents/grandparents are shocked to find that the full costs of private colleges can be $50 k a year. Even for low cost public universities, tuition, room and board can cost $25 k or more.
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<p>Exactly! It’s important to find out how much the grandparents have in this account. </p>
<p>Many grandparents think they have set aside enough for their grandchildren’s college costs, but they have no idea how expensive college costs are these days. Someone on this board had such grandparents - many times they had said that they had an account for his college costs, but then he found out that they only had like $25k in the account - not even enough for the first year. :(</p>
<p>I know a family whose grandparents had only ONE account set up for all of their grandchildren’s college costs, but no one was really “minding the store.” A few of the older grandchildren went to pricey schools and went thru all the money leaving the younger grandchildren with nothing. 
The grandparents had no idea that college costs had risen so much, otherwise they would have split the money rather then let it be “draw fund” that the older grandkids could drain. (Believe me, this caused HUGE trouble in a family where the younger grandkids were from one family and the older grandkids were from another.) Ok…off topic :)</p>
<p>Back to topic… :)</p>
<p>*After you find that out [how much your grandparents have set aside for you], figure out what you want: Urban, small town or rural atmosphere? Size of school (Size can range from fewer than 1,000 students to 50,000 students). Catholic or nonsectarian? Co-ed or female? Do you want a place where sports and Greek life are important? Are small classes important to you? Study abroad options? Research options? Any idea what you might want to major in or pursue for extracurricular activities.
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<p>Good suggestion!</p>
<p>Colleges are bastions of inefficiency, many of them spending tens of millions on sports teams for scholarships for kids who really don’t qualify to be there academically in the first place and for huge salaries for overpaid coaches and then the facilities maintenance, marketing etc. Then they have gazillions of deadwood tenured professors doing little to no work making large salaries and benefits packages. So the cost of an education has skyrocketed the last ten years or so to egregious levels. The question is whether that cost is worthwhile. I suspect we may see a lot of colleges closing as people decide the cost is simply not worth the investment and enrollments drop off the the cliff. The uber rich will send their kids to the name prestige schools where “money talks”. Even at state colleges they are dealing with budget crisis and its predicted that the problems wont evaporate when our economy returns to some level of normalcy. In fact, they predict that tuition and room and board will continue to rise to levels truly unaffordable. Financial aid at many colleges is handed out very unfairly…really blatant discrimination going on. Its most egregious at private schools including many Catholic schools, where favoritivism is rampant. I know this is somewhat off topic, but its relevant to the OP looking.</p>
<p>What are you interested in studying? </p>
<p>The gpa is low for many of the suggestions such as Sacred Heart, Loyola of Maryland, Dayton, Scranton, St. Joseph’s, Stonehill and could be problematic. Perhaps they will weigh the SAT more heavily, but you would have to find out.</p>
<p>You could look into Marywood Univ., Lebanon Valley, Lycoming, Wilkes, and King’s College in PA, and Fairleigh Dickinson, Monmouth Univ., and Rider Univ. in NJ.</p>
<p>What about Keene State, Emmanuelle, Endicott and High Point?</p>
<p>Is that your weighted GPA? </p>
<p>If the OP’s grandparents can pay full-freight, then some/many schools will likely overlook the sub 3.0 GPA. Many privates would love to have more full pays.</p>
<p>Colleges are bastions of inefficiency, many of them spending tens of millions on sports teams for scholarships for kids who really don’t qualify to be there academically in the first place and for huge salaries for overpaid coaches and then the facilities maintenance, marketing etc.</p>
<p>If you’re upset that sports programs are costing schools too much money, then you should be against Title IX - which forced schools to fund expensive women’s sports that few people want to watch and are complete money drains.</p>
<p>Check out Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY.</p>
<p>How does the school know that you are a full pay?</p>
<p>^^^^</p>
<p>If you don’t request Financial aid and/or “check the box” where it asks if you’ll be applying for FA…</p>
<p>mom2collegekids… I don’t think the OP would get into DePaul since his stats are quite low imho.
I would add the state schools in NJ also and if you really want to go somewhere better than go to a community college then transfer. If you don’t want to go to a CC, consider Ramapo, Montclair, Richard Stockton, and Rutgers-Newark along with the other suggestions?</p>
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<p>Good suggestion! Also you could look at Western New England College in Massachusetts.</p>