<p>Just curious, being that's what I applied to. I always hear about how competitive newhouse and architecture and other programs are, but never CAS.</p>
<p>Opinions on how difficult/competitive it is in admissions for Out of State applicant?</p>
<p>I’d like to see the responses for this too. I applied to CAS as well and I tried to research it to see the stats and how competitive it is but nothing comes up. </p>
<p>Hopefully some Syracuse students can answer!</p>
<p>It’s not every competitive.
For SU, the most competitive majors are Newhouse and architect.</p>
<p>Do you know is SU usually accept a lot of OOS freshmen for CAS?</p>
<p>OOS is a term that should be associated with admissions for public schools. SU is private, and the majority of the students that enroll into the school are OOS. Location bears no competition in admissions, especially for CAS.</p>
<p>That makes sense yes, thank you, I had completely forgotten about that.</p>
<p>Generally speaking though, is the CAS as competitive to get into as Newhouse?</p>
<p>How competitive is CAS for transfers?</p>
<p>CAS is much, much less competitive than Newhouse, and still less competitive than Whitman. At Syracuse, there is a belief that CAS is usually easiest to get in to. Syracuse allegedly allows in some unqualified students who can pay full tuition or give lots of money to the university, and these students are what fuels the “tri-state rich kids driving Range Rovers” stereotype that some may have about Syracuse. Personally, I find that many of the students I meet from the CAS happen to be just as smart or smarter than any Newhouse or Whitman student, though. But, as for admissions, it is usually the easiest to get into. Good luck to you all though, in my opinion SU is a great school and a great place to be.</p>
<p>What about VPA? My D applied RD. Her portofolio was already accepted @ a Portfolio Review Day. She has a 3.5 GPA with several AP and Honors classes, ACT 27, SAT 1750, President of a Althletic Leadership Club, Team captain Jr and Sr years and several Art awards. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>So would you say that majoring in a science at Syracuse is not as good as other universities because the school focuses more of its funds on Newhouse/Whitman? Just a thought. I haven’t heard much about how good CAS is at Syracuse.</p>
<p>To be honest, I have very little knowledge about VPA, so I probably don’t have much useful input @cathycc. All I know is that, from what I hear, the architecture students seem to be some of the hardest-working students at the university. (I live near Syracuse, work with several SU graduates, have many friends whose children attend SU, and my son goes to school with a number of children of Su employees.) </p>
<p>@Mango15, I wouldn’t say that majoring in science wouldn’t be as good as other universities, but it depends what other schools you are talking about. I don’t know as much about that particular department. However, in my mind, while Newhouse and Whitman may perhaps be more well known, the CAS is very well respected.</p>
<p>Thanks for the insight. Hopefully I’ll get a good idea of the CAS when I visit.</p>
<p>I doubt you will get into Syracuse, I’ve seen your stats. I’m not trying to be rude, I’m just being honest with you. Syracuse is getting competitive, I know this for a fact. Forget the fact that you’re from France and you’ll be adding some “flavor” to the student body - they don’t care. I’m sorry if I offended you, I tend to be brutally honest.</p>
<p>And yes, even College of Arts & Science is competitive…For you…with your GPA…yes.</p>
<p>Okay, well thank you for your honesty. I wish the focus on GPA wasn’t so harsh, mine has been high in the last two years, but I guess it doesn’t really matter. Oh well, I’ll see what happens.</p>
<p>I felt the above poster was a bit harsh so I took a look at your stats. </p>
<p>I doubt Syracuse is so numbers based that they won’t recognize that your GPA was bad in France but once you began school in America you began to do much better. It’s an upward trend which colleges do tend to like.
Also you SAT score is pretty good for Syracuse so it could help your low GPA, not to mention you have a decent amount of extracurriculars.</p>
<p>I think you have a fair chance and wouldn’t be at all surprised if you were accepted. If Syracuse reviews applications holistically instead of simply numbers based, I think you have a decent shot.</p>
<p>^Mango15, maybe my post was a bit “harsh”, but the reason why I said that is because I am close friends with some people from Syracuse Admissions (whose names I will not mention for obvious reasons). Syracuse does have a high admission rate (63%), but this year they’re trying to get a better ranking, and therefore be more competitive. The problem is that there will be people who will have GPAs much higher than 2.9, and that’s why they’re not going to give her a spot.</p>
<p>I think that’s rather unfair. I guess if I university bases it’s decision solely on a GPA and doesn’t care about anything else, for ranking purposes, then I don’t want to go there.</p>
<p>The university weighs its decisions mostly on holistic review. If your essays and SAT scores are strong, you’re a competitive applicant. It is an entirely different story if your SAT scores are on par and low with your GPA. Your essay also speaks for yourself, it’s subjective. GPA isn’t everything. I thought SAT is what makes or breaks a decision, but in gathering decisions I’m proven that it’s not that. But hey, if you don’t get in, there is still another place.</p>
<p>That’s what I thought, but apparently emphasis is being put on GPA to the point where a low GPA would kill any shot at admissions. I don’t know what to believe, so I guess I’ll just see, even though I won’t be able to know for sure what makes them reject me if they do.
My SAT is 1900, SAT IIs are 800 in french and 640 in literature, and I thought my essays were pretty good. Who knows.</p>