<p>You can go to the best SUNY you like that takes you, and then transfer to a better one if you like after you get a good college GPA.</p>
<p>I disagree with the poster who says forget LACs. Small LACs will look at the OP holistically rather than just on stats. I’m not talking about highfalutin LACs, but regular LACs, CTCL schools but not the toughest ones. </p>
<p>Plenty, plenty of smart kids have personal problems that mess up their high school record. A 3.0 under the circumstances isn’t actually bad. Of course schools also look at the level of the courses taken. I don’t think you said how those were.</p>
<p>In any case, the ACT measures how much of the high school curriculum you have mastered, so your scores say something significant about you.</p>