easiest "good college" to get into.

College Search & Selection
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<p>i really want to get into a good college but i have a mix of a's and b's. what are some of the easiest colleges that have a decent reputation? i really want to go to new york university but it's not exactly easy to get in. thanks!</p>

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<p>Define easy… Rutgers, TCNJ, Stevens. What are your scores? What can you afford??</p>

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<p>“brand name” schools with good reputations that aren’t that hard to get into. for example, a few years back, cornell was the “easy ivy”. it was relatively easy to get into compared to all the other ivies.</p>

<p>and i have a 3.5 gpa but 2200/2300 sat scores</p>

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<p>Looking at USNEWS:
UChicago (27%, rank 9)
Northwestern (27%, rank 12)
Johns Hopkins (27%, rank 13)
are some of the easiest to get in.</p>

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<p>Dude you’re gpa sucks</p>

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<p>haha hence this post</p>

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<p>Cornell is still considered the easiest ivy. :P</p>

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<p>Well, if OP already considers NYU a school that isn’t easy to get into then none of those schools would qualify as easy either. </p>

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<p>Dude your grammar sucks.</p>

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<p>You still haven’t answered the affordability question. Any possibility you will make NMF?</p>

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<p>Male or female? If you’re female and have decent ECs, you can probably get into Smith, something like 40% acceptance rate and I think a generally alright reputation-- not too hard to go to amazing grad schools if you do well there. Also a great alumni network, endowment, Praxis program, etc.</p>

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<p>Check out the midwestern LACs-all nationally known if LACs are your thing. Your GPA is still low, and if the GPA trend is downward, you have a problem - but the higher acceptance rates may help:</p>

<p>Carleton, Macalester, Grinnell, Oberlin and Kenyon</p>

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<p>A few more Midwestern LACs to consider would be Beloit, DePauw, Denison and Earlham.</p>

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<p>In terms of prestige/selectivity ratios, you won’t do much better than state flagships, which are usually fairly easy to get into (relative to other top 50 schools) but are well regarded nationally. </p>

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<p>Percent admitted =/= Easiness. It’s all about what kinds of applicants apply. Last year JHU dropped to 20%, and will probably be a bit lower this year. I think UChicago has been undergoing even more dramatic drops.</p>

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Carleton would still be a huge reach. DD2 applied there and was waitlisted with a 4.0 UW GPA and 2280SATs.</p>

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<p>The following link will give you some idea of relative selectivity when you factor admit rates, scores, and GPA/rank (but not ECs) together:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/687793-selectivity-ranking-national-us-lacs-combined-usnews-method.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/687793-selectivity-ranking-national-us-lacs-combined-usnews-method.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Many little details can affect chances.<br>
Without knowing more about the OP, I’d say his “match” schools are somewhere in the bottom 25. The middle 25 get increasingly reachy, and the top 25 increasingly out of reach.</p>

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<p>Are you a junior?</p>

<p>What will your major be?</p>

<p>What is your rank?</p>

<p>How much will your parents pay?</p>

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<p>What can your family afford to pay every year for all 4 years?</p>

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<p>I’m a female sophomore with a 3.5/3.6 gpa, very high sat scores (2200 on the sats last year but 2300 on recent practice test). I have decent extracurriculars.</p>

<p>Parents probably can’t afford to pay $50,000 price tag of a good school but they still want me to get into a few good ones so that we have options.</p>

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<p>You’ll need to use the FAFSA4caster to see what your projected EFC will be. If it’s very low then you can look at some colleges that meet need. If it’s not low then you’ll need to look at some where your stats will garner merit aid.</p>

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<p>"brand name " schools???</p>

<p>Grinnell for English . . Cal Poly SLO for engineering . . . U Rochester for game design . . . UC Santa Cruz for marine studies . . . The OSU for turf management . . . Kenyon for writing . . . Julliard for classical music . . . Babson for business . . . Olin for engineering . . . Harvey Mudd for applied science . . . American for Politics . . NYU for theater . . . USC for film . . . Northeastern for its co-op program . . . Lehigh for aeronautical engineering</p>

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<p>Do you know your rank? High school grading can differ widely. Have you taken very rigorous classes? </p>

<p>There have been a couple of long threads on the parents forum, for students with under 3.6 GPAs.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/767118-under-3-6-gpa-applying-top-20-parents-thread.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/767118-under-3-6-gpa-applying-top-20-parents-thread.html&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1026754-under-3-6-applying-top-schools-2010-11-a-9.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1026754-under-3-6-applying-top-schools-2010-11-a-9.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>3.5 GPAs with very rigorous class schedules and good rank (or no rank) and high test scores have a lot of possibilities. Some have had good luck with ED or EA admissions, when they are able to pick a favorite school.</p>

<p>It is important to look at admissions scattergrams for individual schools that you are interested in. Does your high school have Naviance? If not, there are several places where you can find scattergrams on the internet. Look at where the dots fall in your GPA/SAT score range.</p>