I am a rising senior at a private catholic school. I will graduate with an advanced regents diploma, have a 1730 sat score and haven’t taken the act yet and I’ve been working on my college essay for a while and I feel its pretty strong. I took only one AP class last year but I’m taking two for my senior year as well as a college theology class. I did cross country and spring and winter track both freshman and sophomore year but my junior year I had two jobs so I only did winter track but I plan to do all three seasons for my senior year. I did a week-long community service trip with my school this summer, was a reading tutor at my library freshman year went to summer camp two years in a row for a “leaders in training” program and a “counselor in training” program and was technically apart of a few clubs throughout the last three years. I talked to the school paper club and I’m going to have a book review column for senior year. My gpa is really pretty bad at a 2.9 but I’m hoping I can raise it my first semester of senior year to at least like a 3.0. Long story short is there any hope for me to get into Fordham University?
@morganellen I think Fordham is out of reach. My son recently graduated from an all boys Catholic school in NJ and the kids that get into Fordham have SATs 1900 and up. Fordham takes the top students that apply from a given high school class regardless.
Kids from Catholic high schools all apply to the same schools, so you wind up competing.
You would have better luck at Providence, St. Michael’s, St. Bonaventure, St. Anselm, Manhattan College and Scranton if you want a Catholic college.