<p>White Male
New Jersey Resident
Legacy @ Delaware(parents) Penn State (Brother)
competitive high school - no one has ever been rejected from any of the schools I am applying to except Northwestern with > 1300 SAT. I dont plan on being the first</p>
<p>GPA: 5.2/ 7.0- weighted
118/~410 - 29% - based on weighted
unweighted- 3.0
large rising trend in grades
All Honors in matg/science/french
2 AP/H sciences AND 2 AP maths senior year
2 AP/H sciences junior year
Midyear(projected)
1 C (Bio 2AP)
2 Bs (AP calc BC, Honors Physics)
2 As ( Senior English, AP Stats, Intro to Business)</p>
<p>SAT
June 2005
Math Ic- 770
Biology- 680
October 2005
Critical Reading- 570
Math- 800
Writing- 56MC 8 essay, 560
1930/ 2400
1370/1600
November 2005
Math IIc- 800</p>
<p>ECs
Soccer- 4 years - JV cap 10+11
Boy Scouts- 4 years</p>
<p>Ive done other things for like a year or two, but I am not posting these because they really werent important</p>
<p>Essays- Amazingly original, represent me as a person so completely, No one else could have wrote them. Wrote one on B-Batteries and lack of them, one on how my favorite piece of art is the Naked Gun(movie), etc English teacher said I had the best she's seen in a while</p>
<p>Recs- below average, because I am an underrachiever</p>
<p>I can't speak for the others but I would say Northwestern is closer to 1% than 5% due to your GPA. How do you figure you could get money at Temple just out of curiosity? I know nothing about the college</p>
<p>I am also a NJ resident. You can do so much better than temple, but it is a good safety as long as you like it and can afford it. My question is why you think Vtech is a little easier to get into than JMU? Is it b/c of the higher acceptance rate at Vtech? Actually, I think you have a good chance at both, but can't pin down a %. You might be a little optimistic about TCNJ, but you are probably close. My question to you is if you go to JMU will you drive home or stay on campus for 3 day week-ends (ie: Columbus Day)? Just curious b/c my S applied too. It is a little far for my taste, but I really love the school!!!</p>
<p>Good luck, I think you are going to have to make some choices pretty soon!</p>
<p>I think Va Tech is a little more SAt oriented, and math oreinted, while JMU is a little more GPA/ class rank oriented. when it comes to admissions. </p>
<p>I doubt I would come home often if I go to JMU. My brother goes to PSU, and my parents never allow him to come home on weekends, just because they dont feel like driving 8 hours up and back.</p>
<p>I like Temple. Id rather go to Temple than Rutgers of Penn State. I think its a good safety for me, though I hope I dont have to go there</p>
<p>Habdragon, how come so many safeties? Your unweighted gpa and rank will keep you out of Northwestern and schools like that, but other than that tcnj is your only reachy school, and you do have a chance there. There are so many schools BETWEEN Northwestern and JMU etc. I think you'd have a chance at a lot of schools in the second half of the top tier, and top of second tier, like Rochester, Lehigh, Bucknell, Villanova, UMd, BU, Richmond, maybe BC, maybe NYU...these are match/reach to reach but I think some would be attainable for you.</p>
<p>I agree with the last post but honestly give up on Northwestern. That is not a feasible reach school. A 3.5 is still nothing to brag about at a school like that.</p>
<p>I am not applying to 2nd tier schools (Rochester, Lehigh, Bucknell, Villanova, UMd, BU, Richmond, BC, NYU) because I fell the difference between Delaware or TCNJ and any of these schools academically is just not worth 15,000 extra dollars. I feell the difference between TCNJ/Udel and a top 25 school IS worth 25,000 extra dollars. Also, NU has a program I really like (MMSS)</p>
<p>Northwestern accepts 8% (yes 8%) of kids in the second QUINTILE of their class.</p>
<p>Id be happy with a quarter of that.</p>
<p>I think if everything else on my transcript is average - above average by NU standards (i feel everything else is), then a 3.0 with a large rising trend in grades probably gives me a 1-5% chance</p>
<p>JMU is a very good school. I like your list. The private schools that were listed are some good reaches, but you can also risk losing merit aid if you do not do well. There are plenty of students who post on cc, who got in, and are now struggling to succeed. I think it is better to go in with strength, as a better student at a less competitive school, and do well. That is just my opinion though.</p>
<p>JMU is a very good school. Delaware and TCNJ are better schools, in my oppinion</p>
<p>hers my list of how much I want to go to each school</p>
<p>1) TCNJ / Delaware /(off chance I get into Northwestern)
2) JMU/VT
3) Temple
4) PSU/Rutgers my 'rents made me apply to these schools because of money</p>
<p>If someone can come up with a good reach thats <30,000 , or thats top 25 Ill think about it</p>
<p>I failed to realize other than Northwestern your schools are less expensive state schools of good quality.</p>
<p>So I think your list is a good sensible one. I agree with you...you'll get just as good an education at tcnj or probably Delaware as one of the privates I mentioned previously.</p>
<p>I'm curious why you like Temple more than PSU and JMU more than Temple. I was at JMU 2 or 3 weeks ago for the weekend (Villanova-JMU football game)...our conclusion was JMU reminded us of Penn State.</p>
<p>I liked JMU better because the campus was set apart from the town, unlike Rutgers or PSU. Delaware is the only school I was at where i liked the integration between the town and the college.</p>
<p>I like Temple better than RU and PSU for the same reason. </p>
<p>I dont think it will come down to choosing between any of them though. I think Ill get accepted at Delaware, and rejected from TCNJ/NU, that will make my decision easy.</p>
<p>well Northwestern may accept 8% of kids in the second quintile. They would be kids who excel somewhere, like an athlete or star musician; also minority and legacy kids get an admission advantage...these groups (particularly athletes) would probably fill just about all of that 8%.</p>
<p>Still...you just never know, especially if your essays are as good as you think.</p>