I actually go to a different school and we no longer need mechanical drawing, I think it may be the same diploma though.
I am currently looking into Macaulayâs Honors program as well, and since itâs at a CUNY it will be very convenient, hoping I get accepted.
Thank you, I am a bit overwhelmed now with so many conflicting opinions. This forum has me wondering if itâs at all even possible to get into a good SUNY
I also think I should focus more on liberal arts colleges and go in undecided rather than focusing on classes/majors that will prepare me for med school, just in case.
After asking a bit more, they will help pay for college (any) as long as I get good grades and such. I think this is reasonable, but maybe placing a tiny bit of unneeded pressure at such an important time. However, I believe they will help pay, whether or not I will have to pay it back depends on my grades.
This is the kind of vibe I am getting from them currently.
Have you tried chancing yourself for various schools on CollegeVine? Itâs not perfect, but for my daughter, the predictions were actually pretty close to the results (with a few exceptions, but thatâs to be expected). If all of the information youâre getting from all directions is confusing, it can be a useful exercise in getting some direction. Fill out your user profile as thoroughly as you can for best results, and then peruse safeties/matches/reaches for ideas. And if your school uses Naviance, that can be very helpful as well, because you can see where you stand relative to others from your school whoâve applied to various schools in the past. These resources might help your parents moderate their expectations, as well.
It sounds as if your parents have a large amount of unreported income, which can lead to problems when they fill out the CSS form (not to mention possible eventual criminal charges for tax evasion). It also sounds as if you cannot rely on them for consistent help with money for college.
If that gpa puts you at worse than top 5th % at your high school, barring other statuses which you do not have, you absolutely will not get into an ivy or a T20 school. Even the valedictorian from your school might not get into an ivy. The hired gun is lying to get your parents to pay them, or is uninformed.
You need to make an affordable option for yourself, which means a CUNY or SUNY that you can commute to. Also apply to binghamton, albany, stonybrook, buffalo, unless you hate some of them. Also genesco. Hopefully they will come up with the money you may need, otherwise, it is a commuter school for you.
No one goes into medicine anymore for the money. Too hard to get in, too much cost for the education vs the future earnings. PeopIe go into medicine nowadays because theyre highly motivated to practice medicine.
Where you go to college matters a lot less than gpa and mcat. You can get into a good residency from any med school. But you dont sound highly motivated for medicine.
I have taken a look at Naviance, but itâs pretty confusing: there are students with 1600 SATs and 4.0 GPAs getting rejected ED while a 1490 SAT 3.4 GPA student gets in RD
Yes, that happens, but you can figure that the student with lower GPA and test scores had a hook of some kind. Valedictorians get rejected from the reachiest schools all the time, as other posters have mentioned. Naviance is helpful, because you can see where you are relative to a critical mass of students, not individual dots on the scattergram.
There are a lot of instances of these though, which is why for the Ivies I mentioned, like Cornell and Brown, I fall in the lower tier but Iâm still there. Not sure if that means I do stand a chance though
I was just about to make the same comment as @Catcherinthetoast without mentioning the school. Just want to point out that @sc06 attends a super competitive NYC high school where 20 percent of the class is going to Ivy League schools and the middle 50 percent SAT is 1490 to 1560. Context matters.
Do you have a chance? Sure. A good one? No. Shoot your shot and send out a few applications, but donât blanket the Ivies and T20s with applications, because thatâs expensive, and youâre unlikely to get in based on the information youâve shared with us. The fact is that everyone would be unlikely to get into schools where the acceptance rate is lower than 10% (and in many cases under 5%).
One can only file an individual or a married tax return. They cannot combine income with other relatives. An income of 40k in nyc is very low income. Impossible for a family to live on this in nyc unless receiving publuc housing, food stamps,medicaid. If the css reveals a higher standard of living than this (car, apt or house with a mortgage and property taxes, etc), the school will realize there is hidden money.
To be crystal clear, in case there is any doubt, on a site called College Confidential, it is not okay to identify the studentâs school.
If a student mentions it, users who have been here since before the magma cooled should know that the best course of action is to advise the student to edit their post, as opposed to repeating it because the OP already said it.
It doesnât âexcuseâ your GPA, but colleges will be very familiar with your highschool and know that an âaverageâ student from your school is very high achieving and not the same as an average student from elsewhere. That being said, Ivies and other top schools will still be a reach.
and we no longer need mechanical drawing, I think it may be the same diploma though.
