Hello I am going to be a junior in High School this upcoming school year, I am posting here because I need help finding the right college. I am fairly smart just about all A’s only about one B per year, 4.3 GPA, and have not taken the ACT yet but I will get between a 25-28 (30 if I studied real hard). My desire is to go to a medium sized school (2,000-18,000) on the east coast preferably in the NYC/Boston area. I have been looking at Seton Hall and Xavier mostly. What I like about those two schools is that they are recognizable names and have D1 athletics. I post to this forum because I feel like I am missing some colleges. If you have any suggestions please provide the name and a little bit of info. Thank you.
What are you planning to study?
What is your financial situation? Have you run net price calculators for schools?
Anything else important besides location in NYC/Boston and D1 sports? How important are D1 sports? Are you willing to consider schools in say, Philly and DC?
My parents are paying for college, but they have told me the maximum they can pay is around $20,000-$25,000 so I have been working on building a resume. Also I plan on going into business more specifically accounting or finance. As for location I do like Philadelphia and Pittsburg and D1 sports is a plus, but if a school was very competitive in D2 or D3 I would be fine with that. I just really want to go somewhere recognizable. I am the fourth and final child and none of my brothers went to a recognizable school and I really want to.
I don’t know anything about athletics but with good grades and financial need you might get enough scholarships to make some of these schools affordable:
Rutgers NB
Bryant University
Bentley University
Hofstra University
Adelphi University
Suffolk University
CUNY Baruch
If considering Philly, then Drexel as well
Thank you
What state do you live in?
I think you’re selling yourself short with Seton Hall or even Xavier.
Keep in mind that “recognizable” to HR managers isn’t the same as “recognizable to the random guy in the street”.
For instance, Baruch is very well known on Wall Street but has no sports whatsoever. Colleges such as Middlebury and Hamilton do very well in high level placement and don’t even offer a finance major.
Work very hard on your SAT/ACT: your GPA is very good so your test scores will make the difference.
Also, make sure you take a rigorous curriculum., which, for the colleges you’re aiming for, would be:
-4years of English, especially Honors, preferably one AP
- Math through precalculus, preferably honors (bonus if calculus honors or AB)
- Foreign language through level 3
- 4 years of history and social science, including honors US History or AP US history and preferably 2-3 honors/AP
- Biology, Chemistry, Physics at any level, plus one more science
- a computer science (Principles, programming…) class
- a speech/debate class
If interested in co-ops, look into UCincinnati. Cheaper and more efficient than Drexel. Very well-recognized.
Thank you for the advice I plan to go 100% in my ACT and you make a good point that I might shooting to low. You also make a great point that I need to focus on well known schools in the business world. Also to answer your first question I live in Chicago if that helps (but I want to go somewhere a little far from home)