How much does a poor junior year hurt my S with college admissions offices?

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<p>These are the things you need to do off the top:</p>

<p>Have your son get a copy of his transcript.</p>

<p>Get a copy of your school’s profile from the GC</p>

<p>Have his counselor do a credit check for him to make sure that he is on track to graduate this june.</p>

<p>You stated that he failed an elective, he will need 7 elective credits in order to graduate so if he needs to add another class to his course load or register for PM school that he can do that this term. He will also have to make up gym, so he needs to make sure that he can get 2 gym classes in his program or take the second gym in PM school because he cannot graduate unless he passses 7 gyms and health (you would be suprised at how many students do not graduate because of gym).</p>

<p>The reality is a 68 average junior year is going to hurt him because it has also pulled down overall GPA (probably down to the C range) and URM status going to make up for that as there are going to be plenty of URMs from the NYC prublic school system who took care of their business and are coming with better scores and GPAs. Since most of the applications (especially for the SUNYs would be going out before he makes his comeback, what he hopes to do will not be a factor as the schools will look at what he has done by the time they read his application).</p>

<p>His overall gpa is going to hurt him at the SUNYs and at Hunter where most of the students have a ~ 92 average (I have the GPA ranges, but today is not a school day in NYC so I don’t have them at hand).</p>

<p>Here are the SUNY ranges so you can get an idea as to where your son stands:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.suny.edu/student/downloads/Pdf/2007_Admissions_QF_StateOp.pdf[/url]”>http://www.suny.edu/student/downloads/Pdf/2007_Admissions_QF_StateOp.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>It won’t be a fate worse than death if he takes the community college route as he will have an automatic tranfer to the SUNY’s or CUNY’s and it would give him some distance from his high school grades and he would start college with a clean slate. </p>

<p>He should also look into ASAP (a new program at the CUNY CC’s) if he scored at least a 75 on the english and the math regents, he would be exempt from the CUNY placement exam and eligible for ASAP. If accepted he would get free tuition (students not eligible for FA would have their tuition covered by ASAP) a $500/ term book stipend and a metro card.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www1.cuny.edu/academics/academic-programs/programs-of-note/asap.html[/url]”>http://www1.cuny.edu/academics/academic-programs/programs-of-note/asap.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I hope this helps</p>