<p>A chronic illness has taken a great toll on my high-school performance. I was sick for the first 2.5 years of my high-school career (and was also on home-instruction for a few of those months) with a condition that hampered my extracurricular efforts and volunteer work attempts. Just recently i have been able to control my condition with medication. I have finished my junior year with a 1700/2400 (yuk, will take again) on SAT and involvement in four after school clubs. I have also been recommended for 2 AP and Honors courses for senior year. i dont know my gpa yet... b+ probabley
My BURNING question is: How should I approach college applications when i am so behind competitive applicants? Should i even bother applying to schools like boston u or pepperdine?
Ps. have also taken courses at parsons school of design (college credits), started a community support group for my condition, hand-painted converse sneaker designs + sold, taught art at church, will be taking sewing and drawing courses at Fit this fall....)</p>
<p>please...what are my chances for a place like BU (major in costome design), Cornell (fashion design), syracuse u (fashion design)...
.....also: went from art II in junior year to AP art in senior, AP economics, honors pre calc, honors english...</p>
<p>im confused.</p>
<p>i've just replied three times to my own thread.
BUT that doesn't mean i dont want ur opinion!
<em>cries</em>
i gotta get away from this computer (but i'll be back tomorrow...hoping...for someone to... ANSWER ME!)</p>
<p>I dont know much about freshman admission but you should think about communiy college; not becase i think you cant go now, but the 2.5 wouldn't be an issue if you were a transfer.</p>
<p>I would expect most schools to cut you some slack, even a lot of slack. However, they will worry about your preparation level for your own good. No sense showing up with academic skills way behind the other students'. BU and Syracuse and Pepperdine are expensive, too- no sense spending money if you need a lot of remedial help. I suppose the the Cornell program you are looking at is in the public part of the school. Sounds as if you live in or near NY City. You can apply to those schools, but have a backup plan. What is wrong with FIT as a backup, or even a catch-up year at a CUNY? A lot depends on money- if you want to pay BU, they might take you but require some remedial work- I think that they have a special remedial program.</p>
<p>"oneMom" i have a question: what do u mean by the program i want to attend at cornell is in the public part of the school? does that mean its easier to get into? ( it's actually in the Human ecology dept)</p>
<p>p.s. i don't think i would need remedial b/c all of my previous classes were academic track-average. and i got upgraded to aps + honors even tho it's my last year......i do hope they cut me some slck tho b/c i couln't control what happened....</p>
<p>but thanks So much for ur responses</p>
<p>hey mary 007
I was sick too
also had family problems
and dropped out two times
of course you have chance
don't believe in what ppl say
PM me if you want
I'm applying to Brown ED</p>