<p>Hey parents, I'm hoping that maybe I can get better answers on here about schools oher than Ivy league schools. Here are my stats, if anyone can give me some suggestions on schools in the tri- state area please do so,thank you!</p>
<p>~I am hispanic
~I have a 98 average over the course of my freshmen, sophomore and my fist 2 quarters of my junior year.
~I scored a 145 on the PSAT (pretty suckish I know)
~By graduation I'll have 4/5 AP courses
~Over 100 hours of community service</p>
<p>I live in NY and I want to stay within 4 hours from NYC and preferably in NY and PA because I want to major in Secondary Education (Psychology or English) and the requirements in PA and NY are the same so transfer of certification is easier (I have spoken to people this is why I know this)</p>
<p>I have Looked into CUNY and SUNY schools, and have only a small list (tiny actually) here are the schools I am already looking at/ have looked at)</p>
<ul>
<li>The City College of NY (I really, really liked this one)</li>
<li>The college of Saint Rose (I didn't like it, it was too smll for my taste)</li>
</ul>
<p>You are selling yourself WAY short. If you take away your test score (and there are now hundreds of colleges, including very good ones, that are test-optional), a Hispanic student with a 98 average, 4-5 APs, and lots of community is a TOP commodity! You have no idea what kind of demand there will be for you, with lots of merit money if you look hard. Here’s a list:</p>
<p>You have excellent grades and are URM. Try both ACT and SAT and try to prep a little. I don’t see why a low score on one standardied exam should limit your options.</p>
<p>But you are right to look for schools based on current stats as well.</p>
<p>Well I say that the slighy above only because it has always semed like SAT’s are HUGE and PSAT’s as well, i could be ttally wrong though based on what you guys are teling me. I also do plan on my gpa dropping a little because I am strugglng a littl with one of my AP classes, I’m pullin an 82, and between AP US history and my physics class I do plan on having that drop a little bit.</p>
<p>Also my regents exams are not that great for 3 classes if that hurts my chances or changes anything, I haven’t failed any though.</p>
<p>Thanks for mentioning oneonta, I forgot to add that! I couldn’t remeber the last one lol</p>
<p>As long as you pass them, no one outside of New York State cares in the least about your regents exams. And LOTS of really good schools - top schools - won’t care about your SATs or ACTs either, if you don’t submit them.</p>
<p>An Hispanic student with your grades (without the SATs/ACTs) would be a top candidate for potential scholarships at Ursinus Muhlenberg and Gettysburg in Pennsylvania (with really fine education departments, though I think at Gettysburg, it is officially a minor), and loads of other places as well.</p>
<p>With that definition, yes, there are some top schools that don’t require SAT or ACT scores. I personally started drawing the line for a “top school” a lot higher after I saw first hand how much better liberal arts majors from Penn and Stanford get treated on the job market than liberal arts majors from my alma mater (Bryn Mawr).</p>
<p>“I am from New York, I am looking at merit money because I qualify for very, vry little if anything for need based. My parents will put in different amounts depending how uch out of pocket I need to pay. For example at a SUNY I’d pay about or a little more than 20k without scholarship money ( just so i have a round number) she said she’s pay about half (of any 20k school, if this is all I have to pay after receiving money) BUt if i went to a 40k a year school we were looking at maybe 10-15.”</p>
<p>OP is looking for merit aid and has some what of an idea of how much her family can afford or is willing to spend on her college education. Just to clarify! :)</p>
<p>you may want to look at some of the school that would give you merit aid that you need, but have an honor college that provides you the boost in academic rigor you want. Make sure you really look at the Honor college, and assure that it is something that meets your need though!</p>
<p>My daughter loves Marywood. Close-knit community that lets you do your own thing as well. Incredible opportunites for travel through community service trips to Central America, Haiti and Europe. Lots of local community service opportunities as well (and a generous scholarship if you join a community service team). Your GPA, with a decent SAT score will get you an automatic and generous merit scholarship. Not as high a reptutation as some schools on your list, but a good education. And with going into teaching, your test scores for licensure will be more important than the name on your diploma.</p>
<p>A half hour further west will get you to Kings College in Scranton, and another hour or so would get you to Moravian in Bethlehem or Muhlenberg in Allentown. Ithaca College has a LOT of students from NYC which would make traveling back and forth for vacations doable with ride shares and busses.</p>
<p>It’s weighted but uw its 3 points lower. As of now Ive only had honors and 2 ap the curves in my school are very low. My guidance counselor worked it put and she said uw would be 94/95</p>
<p>I really really don’t want to take an extra year of math mostly because math has always been a bit of challenge. But knowin my guidance counselor shell want me I an extra math, so I may take regular precalc or an elective that’ll be a math credit.</p>