<p>Just look at the big 10 with exception to Maryland Michigan Illinois and penn state. You would get into the rest . Oh and besides northwestern . And Tbh u still have a shot at pen state Illinois and Maryland just not a great one</p>
<p>@Erin’s Dad my instate is Umass and I am not a big fan.</p>
<p>After reading over comments here and on other discussions i will probably try for penn state, uc boulder, Wisconsin and Minnesota then some private schools, thoughts on these there publics?</p>
<p>There are four publics here. All are good party schools. All will be happy to have your full pay capacity. Wisconsin might be the best of these, but each has some strengths depending on your intended major. Football is important to all, but you already know that. I rec’d a good education at Boulder, but it might be the weakest of these four overall. </p>
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<p>Probably depends on which states. Students who are residents of Pennsylvania often find their in-state public schools to be relatively expensive, for example.</p>
<p>Wisconsin not an option (as a current parent), but perhaps MN Twin Cities might be within reach, as long as a student is not applying to engineering. </p>
<p>University of Iowa has a formula, using gpa, class rank and standardized test scores, which you can complete on line and see if you will be admitted. Pretty campus, on the river, nice college town, a lot of Chicago kids go there. </p>
<p>KU (University of Kansas) also a pretty certain admission, a great college town with some pretty good basketball . . … </p>
<p>Penn State, Pitt, and Vermont are all good for you</p>
<p>The OP could very well have just a 3.4 or even lower GPA. Do you honestly believe any B1G school is going to be a safety for him? </p>
<p>I didn’t know the issue was safety, rjk. Student asked for schools he could reasonably get into. Student didn’t want to be specific about GPA or major. I think there are Big Ten schools OP could reasonably get into.</p>
<p>For football and school spirit how about Alabama or Auburn? Arkansas, Oklahoma, or LSU? Many of these are SEC schools. You could run through the conference and see what schools are appealing to you. </p>
<p>“I didn’t know the issue was safety, rjk. Student asked for schools he could reasonably get into.”</p>
<p>I agree with your statement jkeil911. I was referring to those posters who seem to feel that the OP is a shoe in to get accepted into certain schools.</p>
<p>UIUC outside Engineering (and maybe Business, though even Business doesn’t seem that difficult to enter) isn’t that hard to get in to. UIUC has a huge disparity in difficulty of entrance, with the admission rate in to CS in Engineering now in the single digits but the overall admit rate around 60%.</p>
<p>@rjkofnovi, I see. B-) These posts with vague info about GPA and/or stats get pretty useless responses. I wish people would call the OPs on this vagueness more often. Students have lots of misperceptions about what “good” is and where they are likely to get in. We do them no service by suggesting schools to which to apply when we don’t know more about the OPs.</p>
<p>West VA? Kentucky? If you’re an outdoorsman, you will have no problem getting into Wyoming or Montana. New Mexico and AZ should be easy for you, also. Your stats might make some of the more elite UCs difficult, but (if money isn’t an issue) you could probably get into UC Santa Cruz, provided your UC-weighted GPA is over 3.4. For a more urban experience, consider Temple. </p>
<p>Nebraska requires a n ACT composite score of 20 or higher…that is it. GPA doesn’t matter as long as you have taken the 16 units of academic core courses required for admission.</p>
<p>Depending on class rank, weighted GPA, and number of core courses taken, he is right near the U Iowa admissions criteria. You can easily plug the numbers in the Iowa RAI calculator and know if you will be admitted. </p>
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<p>penn state</p>
<p>@jkeil911@rjkofnovi trust me I do realize how much of a crap shoot CC can be with only an sat and gpa, but the college admissions process as a whole is a crap shoot. There are so many small pieces that can make or break an application it would be impossible to write them all down for a forum. I’m not going to cross a school off completely or convince myself I can gain attendance to a school if somebody on CC tells me too, but the little bit of shared wisdom and support I gain from this site is nice.</p>
<p>OP, you miss the point. You haven’t given us a GPA. That’s why it’s a crapshoot.</p>
<p>@jkeil911 overall GPA is a 3.2 unweighted, but (here comes all the extra crap) my grades have trended upwards since freshman year and I go to one of those ‘elite’ private schools that is considered to be a lot more rigorous than the public schools in my area (4.0 is a rarity). I have no clue how this would affect an admissions staffs judgement of my transcript. </p>