<p>This is my college list and I need some colleges below the level of the following:
Clemson University
Virginia Tech University
Penn State
James Madison University
Ithaca College
UMass Amherst
University of Connecticut
Miami (OH) University</p>
<p>State Residence: New York
Must-haves: Football team, preferably D1. Not west coast.</p>
<p>A safety is a school that you will get accepted to AND you know that you can afford to attend because of assured scholarships, assured grants, small fed loans and/or family funds. </p>
<p>Every spring we hear from upset kids who can’t afford their safeties because they forgot to consider finances. Safety schools often don’t give much aid, but some give generous scholarships to high stats kids.</p>
<p>How much will your parents pay each year?</p>
<p>What are your stats?</p>
<p>If your stats are strong and you need merit money…Alabama…gorgeous campus, strong academics, AWESOME football.</p>
<p>Are these your latest stats?</p>
<p>*GPA - 3.05
SAT - CR 500 M 710 W 570
ACT - 24 (Not sending)
AP’s - Macroeconomics, Statistics, and Enviromental Science
Extra Curriculars:
Golf (4 years, 2 year captain)
Track (2 years)
FBLA (3 years)
Alter Server at church (since like 4th grade)
Youth group at church (1 year)
Film-making club (3 years)
Residence: OOS *</p>
<p>Will you be re-taking the SAT? If you could increase your CR to closer to your Math score, you could get some scholarship money. </p>
<p>How much will your parents pay? For instance, schools like Clemson, UConn, JMU, and VT would be too expensive if your parents won’t pay much. You’re OOS and they won’t help you with costs.</p>
<p>If the stats mom2college kids listed for you are accurate, particularly GPA, you may have a hard time at many of the schools on your list. </p>
<p>Have you considered any of the SUNY schools?</p>
<p>Now talking about prices, it should be below 45k (including Room & Board)</p>
<p>You wrote the above on another thread? If this is what your parents have told you, then you should be fine at many schools. If you’re guessing that is what your parents will pay, then you should ask to make sure. :)</p>
<p>*
Have you considered any of the SUNY schools? *</p>
<p>This kid wants D1 football…not happening at any SUNY. I think he should visit Bama on a home game weekend…he’d be blown away. I was at the football game last Saturday…the Calif visiting team was amazed at how gorgeous the campus and stadium are.</p>
<p>I feel like bama is too southern for a new yorker and price isn’t really an issue and I took the SAT’s once got 1120/1590 my second time got it up to 1210/1790 and I don’t think I am going to take them again. Thanks for the suggestion though, any others?</p>
<p>Matt – while it is hard to accept, your score on the SAT is the single most important part of your file at a majority of the schools in this country…</p>
<p>IF I were you, I would take the SAT one more time. You are still OK to sign up for the October sitting. Your math score is great. I would go through all the tests in the “11 real SAT” book, just the CR sections. Go back to any of the SAT prep books in an attempt to understand why you got wrong answers in the CR section, then keep trying.</p>
<p>By improving your CR score to 550+, and CR/Math to 1260+, you will increase your match schools to include possibly a few in the 60-100 range of USNWR. Otherwise, with a low 3s GPA and low 1200s SAT, it will be tough to get into any in the top 100 – you would match to schools generally ranked 150-200, or LACs ranked 75-125. There are some great schools you match to NOW, but increasing your options iby improving your SAT CR score is always a great thing.</p>
<p>Oh, and GPA 3.05 doesn’t mean much outside of its context. Is that GPA unweighted, or weighted? Do you know where you rank in your graduating class?</p>
<p>^ Take DunninLA 's advice Matt… </p>
<p>Now is not the time to play Popeye (I am what I am). Just start studying today and take the test again as soon as you can… In 2 months it will sound lake a great idea but you’ll be too late, so just do it even if you don’t want to…</p>
<p>Actually the University at Buffalo plays Div 1 football.</p>
<p>^And has local NFL and NHL teams!</p>
<p>Matt – I should have elaborated, so will do that here.</p>
<p>Here’s the thing… 1210 SAT is fine, but not in COMBINATION with a 3.1 GPA. You cannot do anything about your GPA at his point, so all you can do is bring your SAT to over 1300, or as close as you can to it, to show you have POTENTIAL enough for the adcom to actually read your file and get a read on you.</p>
<p>If you look at the GPAs of students entering just about all the colleges in the top 100 of USNWR, ave. GPA ranges from about 3.5 to about 4.3 (weighted).</p>
<p>Looking here, I do find that you are probably a strong match for James Madison with your current stats:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.collegedata.com/cs/admissions/admissions_tracker_result.jhtml?classYear=2013&schoolId=1809[/url]”>http://www.collegedata.com/cs/admissions/admissions_tracker_result.jhtml?classYear=2013&schoolId=1809</a></p>
<p>As a last recommendation, the admit rates for Early Action are much, much higher than those for Regular Decision at most mid-tier Universities. You can select for that variable at he link I showed above. To see the scattergram of GPA/SAT data and admissions result for all the schools on your list, Just input the name of each into the search box.</p>
<p>if you have any questions about Clemson, let me know!</p>
<p>*Actually the University at Buffalo plays Div 1 football. *</p>
<p>Oh…didn’t know that…and I follow football. Is the team ranked? What conference is it in? Is it in a BCS conference? If not…then, the OP may not be interested in it. Many non-BCS conference schools have pathetic attendance at their games. It sounds like this student wants the whole rah rah experience.</p>
<p>Here’s the thing… 1210 SAT is fine, but not in COMBINATION with a 3.1 GPA. You cannot do anything about your GPA at his point, so all you can do is bring your SAT to over 1300, or as close as you can to it, to show you have POTENTIAL enough for the adcom to actually read your file and get a read on you. </p>
<p>Yes, that could be a problem for some schools. Some schools will give leeway on a lowish GPA if the SAT is high (or vice versa). However, when both are modest, then acceptance can be more iffy at schools like VT and Penn State.</p>
<p>V-Tech and Penn State are my two reaches lol</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice DunninLA but I haven’t done an SAT question since early June and I don’t think I have enough time to do all that work considering my mom wants me to finish all my apps by 10/31 (most deadlines are 11/1)</p>
<p>But besides Bama/Buffalo does anyone have any other suggestions?</p>
<p>Matt35: you have an opportunity here to establish the pattern of a WINNER. A winner sees obstacles and confidently sets out to remove them. Sometimes you will be successful, sometimes not, but a winner never gives up without a fight. It is certainly easier to say that two tries is plenty, then give up. You only need to invest about 20 hours in just the CR portion of the SAT. If 20 hours over six weeks seems daunting to you, then I don’t know what else to say…</p>
<p>What’s your class rank? What is your UW GPA? I don’t think I saw any answers for those questions.</p>
<p>Most of the smaller OH state schools would be matches or safeties - Toledo, Kent State. I think the GPA still makes JMU a reach.</p>
<p>You might have a better chance at Auburn or LSU than some of the schools you have listed.</p>
<p>East Carolina possibly?</p>
<p>I am not trying to really go that southern (Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Alabama, those kind of states)</p>
<p>You realize Missouri is at a similar latitude as Washington, DC? More to the cultural point, Missouri was a “Border State” in the Civil Wary, and provided over 100,000 soldiers to the Union Army, while providing only about 40,000 to the Confederate Army.</p>
<p>It just seemed odd that you would lump Missouri in as a “southern” state.</p>