I am really lost and don't know what college can I get into

College Search & Selection
1

<p>Hi,
So I have a 1550 SAT score,
math: 610
reading: 490
writing: 450
I am planning to take it again</p>

<p>and my gpa is 2.7 which is really bad.
I have 40 hours of community service.</p>

<p>Those are all the things I basically have.
I realize that I am in a really bad shape and I can't make it in to any decent colleges.
I am really lost and don't know what colleges can I go.
Please give me some advice please.
I live in New York btw, so it would be better if i go to college in NY state</p>

2

<p>Have you looked at the CUNYs?</p>

3

<p>Here’s the chart for SUNYs. </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.suny.edu/student/downloads/Pdf/2012_Admissions_qf_stateop.pdf[/url]”>http://www.suny.edu/student/downloads/Pdf/2012_Admissions_qf_stateop.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Buffalo State? Old Westbury? I don’t know what they offer.
Go to a community college, get your grades up and transfer?
Your math score is very respectable. Emphasize the positive.
There are plenty of private schools that will take you also, if you can afford them.</p>

<p>Q: are your grades what they are because you didn’t work hard enough, or because you found the work difficult?</p>

<p>Dont despair. It will work out. Best of luck!</p>

4

<p>I really don’t want to go to community colleges like kings borough.
Now I am just wondering what colleges will accept me.
Are the CUNYs available ?</p>

5

<p>Are you a junior?</p>

<p>What is your budget? Do you know how much your parents will pay? Your budget will largely determine where you should apply.</p>

6

<p>I am not from a rich family. My mom is a single mom.
So my budget is not that much.
Yes, I am a junior.</p>

7

<p>Heres a CUNY chart.</p>

<p>[SAT</a> Scores for CUNY - Compare SAT Scores for the 11 Senior Colleges of CUNY](<a href=“http://collegeapps.about.com/od/sat/a/cuny-sat-scores.htm]SAT”>Compare SAT Scores for the 11 Senior Colleges of CUNY)</p>

<p>If you want more help, you’re going to have to be more specific, like, "I have a 2.7 but I took the hardest courses my school offered, " or, I didn’t work at all. </p>

<p>And what do you want to study in college?</p>

<p>First thing you have to do is work hard to get your jr year final grades up, and then surprise everyone by being motivated senior year. Don’t slack off and take easy courses senior year. Maybe you know this. Probably.</p>

8

<p>I encourage you to read Colleges that Change Lives. There are some wonderful schools that accept bright students with lower stats; diamonds in the rough, so to speak. Seriously, it is a great book and it may give you some ideas.</p>

9

<p>I am not from a rich family. My mom is a single mom.
So my budget is not that much.
Yes, I am a junior.</p>

<p>Are you low income? Or does your mom make a decent income? </p>

<p>If you are low income, then you probably should stick with NY publics. Between fed aid and TAP, you may have costs covered.</p>

10

<p>Yes, my family is low income.
I just took some regular classes in my high school.
My sophomore year was screwed.</p>

11

<p>Since your low income with modest stats, you may need to focus primarily on NY state schools so that you’ll have most costs covered.</p>

12

<p>A year from now you could be very excited to be going to a good NY state college, federal and state aid makes it possible. Between now and then, you owe yourself (and your benefactors) to work hard learning something in school, applying yourself, taking classes to improve your reading and writing, because they do that in college. Go there prepared. What are you interested in, look at majors and the classes expected of you. Being good in math is a gift, improve your reading and writing skills, it won’t happen if you don’t work at it, luckily you are a junior with time to do something about it.</p>

13

<p>If its just your sophomore year grades bringing your GPA down you might find a way of explaining your way out of it.</p>

14

<p>I was in depression for almost 6 months, can that be a reason ? Like some really serious depression problems.</p>

<p>Thx for everyone’s helps btw !</p>

15

<p>You can easily explain that to the colleges you apply to. How are your grades otherwise? You should be just fine finding a cuny/suny.</p>

16

<p>In terms of ECs. Do you have work experience? Plans for the summer? </p>

<p>The public schools will probably mostly be looking at your stats, though.</p>

17

<p>Using Brooklyn College as an example for the CUNYs, the only criteria weighted above “considered” are rigor, GPA and Scores which are all very important.</p>

18

<p>The reason why a NY state school will likely be best is because it sounds like your mom won’t be able to contribute to your education. The chances of you getting into a schools that “meets need” is very small. More likely, if you applied to non-NY publics, you’d get largely gapped and have no way to fill those gaps. </p>

<p>Check out the school that Erin’s Dad recommended and some other SUNY/CUNYs.</p>

19

<p>just go to your local community college and do as well as you can then transfer somewhere reputable</p>

20

<p>Try this to find schools</p>

<p>[College</a> Search - College Confidential](<a href=“http://www.collegeconfidential.com/college_search/]College”>http://www.collegeconfidential.com/college_search/)</p>