GPA: 3.36W 3.14UW (sorry)
rigor: 9 APs, #5 top public school in CA
SAT: 1200
Intended Major: Industrial Design
EC’s (strong point): Own a non-profit marketing company (we donate to a Christian church to help build churches around the world), marketing director of a wedding photography company, marketing director/3d artist for a Minecraft company, www.octovonmc.com. I create 3d art, don’t treat it like a game (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4ajdMBWMAADtne.jpg), varsity swimmer
CA resident, parents graduated from CSULM and one transferred from CU to UW (graduated UW)
also, should i get a college counselor? my high school is really big and I want to do my applications over the summer so my high school counselor isn’t really an option
Colleges I’d love to go to (most I probably couldn’t get in):
USD
PLNU
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
UCSC
CU
UW
VTech
Worcester Polytechnic
Rochester Polytechnic
Loyola Marymount
SCU
Chapman
USF(maybe)
Pepperdine
TAMU
Just for the record, I would wait a full 24 hours before bumping. Constant bumping makes people less inclined to reply.
In any case:
-What’s your family’s budget per year?
-BTW if it was me, I wouldn’t really talk to much about donating to build churches around the world because that’s not really helping people. The only schools that I think would care would be the very christian ones like Point Loma.
Thanks for the recommendations, but I’m really interested in going to the most prestigious school I can possibly get into. I want something prestigious like the ones I listed.
Don’t dis Texas Tech or Nebraska (or schools like them) - they may turn out to be 1) more prestigious than you think, and 2) a little ambitious for a 3.14/1200.
Start googling colleges with Industrial Design whose average SAT is 1100-1300. Then get rid of everything that runs more than 30k or 35k tuition. That’s gonna be a short list, I think, but a good place to recalibrate prestige expectations.
Prestige is a luxury good. Fine if you can afford it, less than worthless if you can’t.
@galazeek You NEED to have a few safeties on your list no matter what. And if you go to a school like U of Nebraska you can try to get into their honors program if you do well your first couple terms
EDIT:
I just realized that CU Boulder actually has a higher acceptance rate than U of Nebraska. I am surprised haha.
Yeah, it’s fairly easy to get into CU Boulder. Not sure that I’d want to go to college in Nebraska though… CU Boulder will be my safety; if I don’t get in there I’ll just do a CC -> UC transfer
You have a list of schools you “(most probably couldn’t get in)” Why does this list exist?
Sure, I would love to get into a size 2, but it isn’t going to happen— so I don’t shop for size 2’s. It’s depressing and makes me feel bad, so I don’t do it. It’s the same with a list of schools that you’re not likely to get into.
Make a list of schools where admission is a real possibility. Your stats are perfectly respectable by non-CC standards… otherwise known as “the real world.”
Find a site that has a College Match feature… I think the one here is still under construction. That will give you a list to start. Then google “Colleges with Industrial Design” You should have a healthy list of schools to start with.
Then go to college navigator. Take a look at the 25th and 75th percentile SAT scores. Focus on schools where you fall between the two numbers.
Couldn’t agree more with ^ bkjmom. You are wasting your time if “prestige” is a bigger factor in creating your list than a realistic chance of gaining admission.
I would scratch CU Boulder - OOS COA is $53k+, and a reach with your GPA. I would recommend the CC to UC/CSU route. With 9 AP’s you can possibly complete the transfer after one year of CC, graduate in 3 years. Good luck.
Boulder, besides being possibly too expensive for you, doesn’t really have a good architecture department, but rather a more nebulous (and certainly less prestigious) environmental design program. The more respected architecture program is at the University of Colorado, Denver… the less overall prestigious campus (and largely a commuter school.)
If it’s prestige you’re looking for, your best bet is community college with a TAG program that will get you into a University of California campus.
