<p>Oh, Whenhen, you go to Oxford @ Emory? If so, we’re in the same state :)</p>
<p>I’m here in Ga for break.</p>
<p>Give me a better picture. She has a 3.3 GPA. Any honors or AP courses? a 15 on the ACT is equivalent to about 1100 on the SAT. She can take a prep course, even on on-line, and increase her score quite a bit. I suggest she take the SAT, and prep for it. Also, keep in mind there are a growing number of test score optional colleges and universities. Here is a link: [SAT/ACT</a> Optional 4-Year Universities | FairTest](<a href=“http://www.fairtest.org/university/optional]SAT/ACT”>ACT/SAT Optional List - Fairtest) . A whenhen makes a good point that many of these schools will be private for-profit colleges that can get you into a lot of loan dept. Others are very religious based, and that might be important to you. But there are some that are traditional big name schools, like the University of Arizona (Big 12 school). One reality has not changed - there is NO significant data that connects a student’s success on the SAT or ACT to success in college. There are loads of students with close to perfect SAT that will bomb in college and others that bomb on the test and graduate college with honors. This being said, much focus needs to be placed on her GPA and course rigor. If she is in a honors or AP english class getting a B+, she will probably be okay. An even bigger factor is her maturity level. If she does get into a 4 year school, is she mature enough to get past her pride and seek out academic support the minute she walks onto campus. Every school usually has a great deal of academic support (i.e. free tutors) because once they admit you, it is in their best interest that you graduate. Again, the question is maturity. If she REALLY wants to go to Duke, then she has to be mature enough to realize she may not start at Duke, but she can graduate from Duke if she is willing to do the work at another school to transfer in.</p>
<p>Grad schools won’t look at her ACT score - I’d say an Ivy is going to be a stretch no matter what she does, however (It is for everyone, let alone someone who has trouble testing)…</p>
<p>Go one step at a time - get into a good CC and bring up the grades for at least a year and then try to transfer.</p>
<p>Judging from her terrible ACT score, the username she chose, and your comments on her and her school: she should honestly go to a community college before thinking about 4 year universities.</p>
<p>I know that grad schools won’t look at her ACT score. What she wants to know if whether going to a community college will hinder her chances of going to a reputable graduate school (which in her eyes are the schools that I got into). </p>
<p>Thanks everyone</p>
<p>RalphsDAD, “there is NO significant data that connects a student’s success on the SAT or ACT to success in college. There are loads of students with close to perfect SAT that will bomb in college and others that bomb on the test and graduate college with honors”</p>
<p>Maybe, but the person with the crappy SAT/ACT score is not going to go an Ivy and the person with the perfect SAT/ACT isn’t going to go to a community college so the latter is going to bomb at a fairly prestigious school while the other succeeds in a school where the work is easier than work at a Top 20 would be. Apples and Oranges.</p>
<p>Also RalphsDAD, I already explained how easy her school is so the fact that she’s getting a B+ in an AP class is moot. Fun fact: Every single valedictorian at her high school for the past 20 years has either gone to a community college or they choose to stay home and raise their baby.</p>