<p>I'm on the east coast and want to stay in New England and so far all the schools I've toured I feel like I have no chance of getting in and it's not like they're super competitive schools :/ I'm interested in Salve Regina, Saint Michael's, Western New England, Westfield, UMass Amherst, and Suffolk. I'm a rising senior and my junior year GPA is a 3.0 unweighted, I'm 150 in a class of 310:/, SAT score of a 1910, I took APUSH junior year and scored a 5 but that was my only AP class junior year although I am taking AP Euro senior year, I'm highly involved in community service with my church and on my own as well as being a member of a community service group in school, I'm on the school's gymnastics team, a member of four clubs however I don't hold a leadership position in ANY of them:(, and I've been dancing for 15 years now. I want to be a high school history teacher but I just don't know if I'm competitive enough to get in anywhere, I feel like a failure...</p>
<p>Don’t get caught up in everyone else’s stats! It’s not going to help you. There are tons of colleges and I’m positive at least one would love to take you!</p>
<p>I’m actually not from your region and am unfamiliar with those schools, but I do think it’s a little premature to give up and feel like a failure. You’ll never know if you don’t try! You can use your application to play to your strengths. The fact that you’ve been dancing for 15 years shows some serious commitment! Also, if you would rather wait and get into a better school, you could always start out at a community college. It will save you a lot of money on gen ed requirements, especially since you only have 2 AP courses. There are a TON of success stories where people have used community college as a second chance to get really good grades and apply as juniors to more selective schools. Explore this option, community college IS NOT for losers and middle aged people. It can really be a great option. </p>
<p>Why don’t you think you have a very solid shot at places like Bridgewater State, and the other schools you’ve listed? I think they all sound very realistic with your stats.</p>
<p>Look, OP, it’s not where you go to school but what you DO there. Work as hard as you can and there’s nothing more you can ask of yourself. Employers are going to look at your GPA and extracurricular experiences, not your alma mater. It’s all about YOU and what you DO, not what you’ve done in h.s.</p>
<p>OP, calm down. You’ll get into college. I hail from your general region (western Mass to be specific), so I’m extremely familiar with WNEU, Westfield, and UMass Amherst. Are you in state MA? Which part?</p>
<p>Your stats are actually fine for some of the universities you listed. Your GPA is around the middle 50% for schools like WNEU and Westfield. However, you only gave your junior GPA. What’s your cumulative GPA? The average SAT score (on a 1600 scale/CR&M) for Westfield is 1040 (from their admission site) and the SAT Critical Reading: 950-1170 (25th to 75th percentile). You only gave your composite including writing score, but they look fine. I would be shocked if you didn’t get into WNEU or Westfield.</p>
<p>UMass Amherst will be harder, obviously, since your GPA is a little on the lower end, but your SAT seems all right. If you don’t get in for the fall term, you should apply for the spring term, where at my school, many of the students rejected for the fall term (with stats lower or similar to you) are accepted for the spring term. </p>
<p>Also, go look at your school’s Naviance scattergrams, since we don’t know how competitive your school rigor is. That should give you a good idea if you can get in or not.</p>