<p>I know she is going to apply to the CUNY Honors program and, most likely, three SUNY schools: Binghamton, Geneseo and Stonybrook. Stonybrook is most likely her safety...she had an unweighted average that is about 3.5-3.6, 2200 on the SATs (she got 740 on each section). We are going to figure out another safety school, maybe Syracuse U or Muhlenberg. At this point, we have only seen high level schools--Princeton, Swarthmore, Yale, U of Penn, Haverford and Villanova...I guess Villanova is not as much up there and it looks like a good match schools. Her extracurriculars are almost all theater tech (very intense, positions held--they eat, sleep and live it), lots of AP, independent study, research and honors classes, summer academic programs. I don't know her rank. Except for Princeton, she liked or loved all of the schools but she is not going to apply to all of them. I also want to determine what some good matches are because almost all are reaches. We are going to look at two of the three SUNY schools, most likely Syracuse (we will be there dropping off our other kid at his community college), U of Rochester. Later, we are looking at Boston schools. Her guidance counselor is worthless. How do we narrow the field?</p>
<p>Have you run the EFC calculators at [FinAid</a>! Financial Aid, College Scholarships and Student Loans](<a href=“http://www.finaid.org%5DFinAid”>http://www.finaid.org) and at [College</a> Calculators - savings calculators - college costs, loans](<a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>Calculate Your Cost – BigFuture | College Board) ? Can you meet your EFC? If so, how much more than that are you willing to pay? If not, how much are you willing to pay? Have you thought about how much debt you are willing for your daughter to take on for her education? Have you thought about how much money you expect her to earn to put toward her expenses during the school year and summer vacations? When you have the money question answered, it will help you focus the list better.</p>
<p>Does she want to major in theater tech, or would she like to keep it up as an extracurricular activity while pursuing a different major? There is a Theater Tech thread in the Theater/Drama Majors sub-forum under the College Majors Forum that might give you some ideas. Here is the direct link: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/theater-drama-majors/623794-technical-theater.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/theater-drama-majors/623794-technical-theater.html</a></p>
<p>If she’s at all willing to take a look at the women’s colleges, she might find some good fits in that list. [The</a> Women’s College Coalition](<a href=“http://www.womenscolleges.org/]The”>http://www.womenscolleges.org/)</p>
<p>Both the CollegeBoard search engine [College</a> MatchMaker - Type of School](<a href=“College Search - BigFuture | College Board”>College Search - BigFuture | College Board) and the new one here at CC [College</a> Search - College Confidential](<a href=“http://www.collegeconfidential.com/college_search/]College”>http://www.collegeconfidential.com/college_search/) will let you include multiple factors. Have her sit down with one of them to see what comes up.</p>
<p>Wishing both of you all the best!</p>
<p>It is not that money isn’t a concern but we will do what we have to and her grandfather is willing to help. She does not want to major in technical theater; it is an avocation but one that an important to her quality of life. She does not want to go to a woman’s college.</p>
<p>Some good match schools:</p>
<p>Colgate
Bucknell
Boston College (although her uw GPA is a tad low, her SAT is on the higher side)</p>
<p>I’m assuming you want to stay in the vicinity…</p>
<p>What does she want in a college? What kind of college life does she want.</p>
<p>What is her likely major?</p>
<p>It is not that money isn’t a concern but we will do what we have to and her grandfather is willing to help.</p>
<p>So, between the parents and the grandpa, do you think you can cover $55k+ per year? </p>
<p>I agree that her GPA is a tad low for BC (and also ivies). However, her SAT could get her some generous merit scholarships at schools that give them. </p>
<p>Depending on what her major/future career will be, it’s hard to recommend. Is she interested in the sciences? health-related career? The humanities? Big schools? Small schools?</p>
<p>How about some schools in LA? LMU?</p>
<p>I think we could cover the “financial need” at the ivies. I think with our incomes, we will not need to come up with $55k a year but we can make a major investment if we think it is worth it. She does not know what she wants to major in. I can eliminate things: business, medicine or medicine related professions, foreign languages, math, drama, engineering…But she is interested in the social sciences, the sciences and humanities. I could see her in an interdisciplinary major. She seems to be gravitating toward small to medium schools. She says she does not care about whether it is in city but I don’t see her in the middle of nowhere.</p>
<p>I think we could cover the “financial need” at the ivies. I think with our incomes, we will not need to come up with $55k a year but we can make a major investment if we think it is worth it.</p>
<p>Ok…so as long as the school “meets need” without big loans, you think you can pay the expected "family contribution.’ :)</p>
<p>So, you may want to avoid pricey schools that don’t “meet need” unless your certain that she will get a big scholarship. :)</p>
<p>*But she is interested in the social sciences, the sciences and humanities. I could see her in an interdisciplinary major. *</p>
<p>Maybe law school in the future?</p>
<p>you cant consider boston college a match with that kind of gpa</p>
<p>Northwestern? It might be a bit of a reach but it’s worth the shot.</p>
<p>It’s 20 minutes from downtown Chicago, since there’s an AMAZING theater school she can definitely continue her theater activities and the academics are strong as well.</p>
<p>You’ve got the usual majors + schools like the School of Comm, Education and Social Policy and Music. A great range of programs right there. Plus double majoring/transferring b/w schools is seamless.</p>
<p>Criteria: small to mid sized, Mid Atlantic/NewEngland, not in the middle of nowhere</p>
<p>Low Reach
Wesleyan
Brandeis
Vassar
BC</p>
<p>Match
Rochester
Trinity
Connecticut College
Skidmore</p>
<p>Low Match / Safety
Loyola MD
Goucher</p>
<p>Thanks. I have to get her transcript again and talk to the college counselor when school starts. Since her school has an unusual grading system, it is really hard to tell what would be a match since the colleges look at you among your peers and I do not know her ranking. In her school, unless you take AP classes or independent study (in her school they are called MILES), you cannot get above a 3.5 out of 4. The E (excellents) are worth 3.5. The AP classes and MILES are worth more. She has taken two MILES in social science research (INTEL) and in Participation in Government (instead of taking that in her senior year). She has taken AP Western Civ., AP AB Calculus and AP U.S. History. She got a 5 on the Western Civ. and a 4 on the other two. This year, she will be taking AP English Lit, AP Environmental Science and AP Economics. She will be finishing up her MILE Intel Social Science research, photography (for fun), set design (also for fun and it is her extracurricular interest). I am sure I am missing a course here…In any case, she does not let any grass grow under her feet. She is also very driven but does not like cutthroat competition (we are not going to look at Cornell, for that reason).</p>
<p>Everyone we know who applied and got in Brandeis has lower GPAs than my daughter as well as lower SAT scores. Are they as selective as they used to be? We will be looking at Brandeis in a few weeks as well as Harvard (yes…I know, a crapshoot, but we are going to be there anyway), Tufts (another one) and Boston College. She had wanted to look at Northeastern but I don’t know if it is worth it.</p>
<p>sounds like your daughter’s school is looked at very differently than the average high school; given that fact, it’s very difficult to ask people on a worldwide web blog to assist with which schools are “appropriate” from a stats perspective; your own school’s guidance/college counselor would be the one to tell you what that GPA means in context and what schools have accepted students from your school in the past with those stats…</p>
<p>after your meeting, others on CC may be able to help with appropriate opinions about where you should visit…</p>
<p>This is true.</p>
<p>Does your school have Naviance? That’s a great way to see where kids at your school with various GPAs and scores have been admitted, waitlisted, or rejected.</p>
<p>Yes. I just have to get the login info.</p>
<p>Remember, if you aren’t a christian/jesuit, then DO NOT GO TO Boston College.</p>
<p>That’s how I felt about Villanova.</p>
<p>don’t listen to nothingto he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. he doesn’t even make sense it sounds like he thinks “jesuit” is a religion. it’s actually a religious order so i don’t think any students at BC are jesuit…</p>
<p>thenatural clearly doesn’t know about his own college. </p>
<p>[Boston</a> College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_College]Boston”>Boston College - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>It’s a roman catholic jesuit college. It is affiliated with Christianity. Jesuit is related with Christianity, and that’s what I implied when I said “christian/jesuit”. As in It is a Christian and Jesuit affiliated college. It wouldn’t matter if anyone isn’t jesuit. You didn’t get the point of my post. If you are bothered with religiously affiliated colleges, then don’t go to Boston College.</p>
<p>^ Oh, and I believe this link in the wiki is helpful.
[Boston</a> College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“Boston College - Wikipedia”>Boston College - Wikipedia)</p>