<p>rpmautosport,
you can do a search on collegeboard.com of schools whose deadline has not yet passed. I search on NE schools with business majors and came up with quite a few, including UMass Lowell and some of the University of Maine campuses, which I think are pretty appealing. This is the only site I know where the application deadline is one of the search features.</p>
<p>Best of luck with your search. I am sure that you are familiar with some rocks in your path from business, and as you have overcome those difficulties, so will you overcome this one.</p>
<p>have you considered doing a PG year at a prep school, working hard, and re-applying to your first choice schools next year? it could work out...and it wouldn't be directionless, if that's what your parents are concerned about. good luck :-)</p>
<p>p.s. for what its worth i dont think your college list was "wrong." you have unique life experiences and any college worth its salt won't base their decision on something as vapid as the SAT. everyone here flipping sht about lower than average SAT scores needs to get their priorities straight.</p>
<p>I would also call Suffolk in Boston. It is more of a commuter school but I know someone with a child at BU and one at Suffolk who enjoys the scene there. It is just down the street from Emerson in a nice part of Boston. Though their deadline is past, they may take a late app.</p>
<p>Hey, I feel your pain. Good luck with wherever you end up. Remember that a lot of extremely successful businessmen and entrepreneurs didn't even go to college (look at Bill Gates, who flunked out of Harvard after less than a year).</p>
<p>The UMass-Amherst is a great idea--it's in the 5 college consortium, no? then you can look at transferring after a year (perhaps locally to Hampshire or even Amherst?) I know a recent Hampshire grad who took classes at Smith and UMass and said UMass coursework was the best in his 4 years. Also I think that Curry has a excellent transfer success rate. I know someone who went to get some study issues straight and transferred after a year to Emerson in Boston.</p>
<p>If you do nto find a college that works well, the PG year is a good idea. Maybe try one of the Boston area prep schools.</p>
<p>It's so ironic that so many grads of these highfalutin schools can't get a job for $25K out of college, and her you are with your own biz trying to get in. </p>
<p>If you send any more apps, look at schools with great biz programs where your achievements will really get some respect.</p>
<p>You clearly have a lot going for you so I would think twice about going to a lesser college just so that you can go in Sept. One year will not make a difference in the long run, but a good or great college v. a mediocre one will. </p>
<p>I have never heard of an appeals process at any school other than a UC.</p>
<p>Hey guys,
If I get rejected from all the schools I applied to, the most likely scenario is attend a lower tier school and transfer after a year or take a year off to develop a few other ventures I had in my mind and reapply for Fall 2006. The only problem taking a year off is it might hinder my chances and my parents would be totally aganist that. The positives is it would allow me to set of the foundation for those businesses so that it would be self sufficiant during college and It would allow me to travel.</p>
<p>I'm really hoping that either NYU or Harvard takes me, but that scenario is unlikely. </p>
<p>Hey, my advice would be to appeal your babson decision, and really push the idea of your own business, I mean its an entrupenurship school and quite frankly your the ideal entrepenuer for someone our age. Appeal it and show off your business.</p>
<p>The problem you might be having with your EC's is that they are not as easily verified as being a result of your effort over others. I am not questioning your veracity, but I imagine a guy who tells you he sold a million dollars worth of property, then you find out his uncle used him to purchase a farm. </p>
<p>It can sound like the kid who's parent sends him to Washington for some event and the primary qualification is that someone wrote a check. </p>
<p>I am not trying to offend you, but to alert you to the concern that someone might not recognize or give full credit to you for your accomplishments.</p>
<p>If you are a CA resident, community college and a contract to Bekeley or UCLA et al. might be a consideration. It would allow you an opportunity to keep your company running. I just don't know of an upper crust school that would accept you before January.</p>
<p>My company is legally incoroporated as a Limited Liability Company(LLC) under my name. I own 100% of the company, minus profit dividends paid to investors.</p>
<p>I was thinking of sending in the business model I wrote to raise venture capital to Babson to show them the validity of my business. Also any of the school are free to check out my business webpage along with a public records in CA to verify my business. </p>
<p>Back to the main topic:</p>
<p>I'm planning to appeal to Babson and apply to a few other schools with rolling admissions. The ideal situation is if I get into Harvard or NYU, but that is unlikely based on my rejection from Babson. </p>
<p>I've noticed that alot of people have suggested the community college route, but that absolutely isn't an option for me. My family is very traditional in the sense that I must attend a 4 year university. </p>
<p>What is the likelyhood of my acceptance to any of the schools with rolling admissions? I've noticed alot of those schools (ASU, APU, etc) have very low standards, but I would imagine that this late into the admissions process, it would be very few spots left.</p>
<p>I think I may have found the solution. University of Massachusets-Boston is taking applications until June 1. I really think you can get in too. I'm not sure why you didn't apply to Northeastern, it's easier than Boston U but still a great school. I also reccomend CSU Monterey and Eckerd College personally, still taking apps.</p>
<p>If you have a real biusiness with real venture capital investors, I can only think that you did not do a good job of presenting this to schools. If a reputable venture capitalist wrote a letter of rec to a college, that would be very meaningful. It's silly to settle for a third tier college.</p>
<p>rpmautosport,
I agree with your decision to appeal to Babson. See if you can include an additional rec from someone in the business community. IMO they made a real mistake in not taking you.</p>
<p>I have one other suggestion. There's a great gap year program in Worcester, Mass. called Dynamy. You do up to three internships over the course of the year, live in an apartment with other interns, and can take up to 12 college credits at Clark University. It's a great program and would fit in well with your interests, I suspect. In the mean time, you can reapply to your top choices next year - or you may even find your top choices will have changed by then!You can also do the program for a half year so you could get on the stick and put in some applications now for Spring 2006 semester.</p>