Okay so I am trying to figure out what schools me and my friend could both get in to. I know you aren’t supposed to do that but we REALLY want to room together (we are online friends, have been for 3 years) and yeah.
Our stats are
GPA: 3.9 & 3.45
SAT: 1370 & 1190
Major: Poli Sci & Psych
we are both LGBT and looking for a more accepting area or just a more accepting college.
We are located in North East US. Right now we are both applying to U Pitt, West Chester PA, George Washington.
We have other colleges we are individually applying to but.
Please don’t comment like “you shouldn’t apply to room with someone”, I’m disabled and gay and don’t want to stress over finding a roomate that doesn’t want to hate crime me, also I have other colleges I’m applying to that he isn’t. Anyways if you have any suggestions for colleges please comment we are kind of horrible at finding them, we both don’t need aid and want to stay in the North East. Thanks!
The limiting factor will be the 3.45/1190 because the other person will be able to get into schools that this person won’t.
You say you both don’t need aid but there is a big difference between being able to pay $80,000 per year and being able to pay $20,000. What is the budget? Do you live in the same state? Those answers will help get better suggestions.
I’m saying we both can afford 80k a year. Also we don’t live in the same state but I’m willing to go far and he’s willing to go anywhere kinda close to PA. We also want to apply to some Canadian colleges but have no clue where to even begin to look.
Canadian universities admit by program. So, the stats that could get into one program, won’t get you into a different program at the same university. Universities close to the northeast to look at with a 3.45/1190 that are more socially liberal would be UOttawa, Carlton, York, Ryerson and McMaster. Ryerson is located in a very LGBT friendly area of Toronto.
“located in North East US”
“want to apply to some Canadian colleges”
“GPA: 3.9 & 3.45”
In the US the terms “university” and “college” are used to mean almost the same thing. Usually colleges are smaller. Thus Dartmouth College and Wellesley College are actually very strong small universities.
In Canada the term “college” and “university” do not mean the same thing.
I will guess that by “college” you mean “good school that offers a four year bachelor’s degree”, which in Canada is a “university”.
There are a few very good small primarily undergraduate universities in eastern Canada. We live in the northeast of the US, but me and my daughters have dual citizenship. One daughter wanted to attend a small university in eastern Canada and so we have visited several of them.
You probably should take a good look at Bishop’s University in Lennoxville, Quebec. Lennoxville is a small town that was originally settled by loyalists right after the US revolutionary war, and which is right next to Sherbrooke. As such Lennoxville is almost completely bilingual. Bishop’s is therefore a small university that teaches in English, but is in a bilingual town in a French speaking province. My guess is that a 3.45 is probably sufficient for admissions for most if not all majors. We found the admissions staff very helpful.
Some other small primarily undergraduate universities in eastern Canada are Mount Allison in New Brunswick, Acadia in Nova Scotia, and St Francis Xavier also in Nova Scotia. The University of Prince Edward Island is also good. There are several other very good smaller universities in eastern Canada.
Acadia is on a hill which might not be ideal in the ice and snow for a disabled person. Bishops has a well contained smallish campus and is quite flat and easy to get around.
Among the larger schools, McGill is probably not possible with a 3.45. Other universities to consider are Concordia (just up the street from McGill in Montreal), and Dalhousie in Halifax.
Gay and lesbian marriage has been legal in Canada for quite a long period of time. The people that I know who live there do not think about it at all – the basic notion is that you date whomever you want to date and you marry whomever you want to marry. Your choice is just that, your choice. I do not need to care about it.
Any of the schools that I mentioned are very good, but are going to cost you a LOT less than 80K per year, and most will cost less than half of this for an international student.