<p>So I have constructed a list of colleges with my parents and I am looking to add/remove some colleges from the list. I am looking to do Business/Accounting in college. </p>
<p>Here's the list:</p>
<p>University of Florida
University of Maryland: College Park
University of South Carolina
University of Connecticut
University of Massachusetts: Amherst
Pennsylvania State University: University Park
James Madison University
Ithaca College
Florida State University</p>
<p>University of Florida and University of Maryland: College Park are definitely reaches but I am going to try!</p>
<p>Questions: what is your academic profile?
where do you live?
which ones do you like the most?
Is financial aid an issue?
What are you looking for in a school?
Does location matter?</p>
<p>Not knowing your stats I can’t recommend much, but I can say that the state flagships all have good business school. Really all these schools are solid.</p>
<p>State of Residency - New York
GPA - 86
SAT - 1120 (Out of 1600)
ECs - FBLA (Public Relations Officer), Film making club, Track (Captain), Golf (Captain)</p>
<p>My favorite is University of Florida but I know I really have no chance, but I like Penn State and UConn also. I am looking for a rather large school that has a football team, I am a HUGE football fan. Location does not matter at all. Now talking about prices, it should be below 45k (including Room & Board)</p>
<p>If you can do better on SAT, then I think you have an alright shot at Florida
If you look at florida, another reach would be UMiami
Take off Ithica and JMU if you are a huge sports fan, they don’t have great sports, and neither is any better of a school than the others on this list.
Other schools include:
Texas A&M-Very strong school in many categories including business (great football team)
Clemson- similar to U South Carolina
Ohio State- is also pretty strong, more of a safety
Most flagship Universitys will fill your needs, so check out a bunch, and see which ones have aspects that appeal to you.</p>
<p>No offense, but to be competitive for smith you’re defffinitely gonna have to raise your sat and gpa. My friend applied to smith and was denied with a 3.76 unweighted and a 1270 on the sat outta 1600 and were in state; and to the guy above me^^ Texas a&m
would more then likely not happen with those stats outta state, I was weight listed with higher stats</p>
<p>@bchristian
I went to a College Fair and visited the Clemson stand and I asked the lady at the stand what the “Average Grade Point Average” was and she said a 95…I was like no chance for me here. Ithaca is on the list because I am pretty sure I can get money from there and my Uncle got his MBA? there and he is now a Vice President at NASDAQ wheeling in the money. JMU is up there because it is cheap. I was thinking about Ohio State but the places I choose are places I would live when I get older and I really can’t see myself in Ohio. Thank you very much though!!</p>
<p>@Amandarin
Smith? What are you talking about haha. I know I need to get my grades up but I honestly don’t know what you’re talking about. Smith College? Is that what the Business School at UMass is called? Have any other suggestions though?</p>
<p>There is no way that clemson average gpa is 95. That would make it an unweighted 4.0. Looking at their SAT score and rankings (which I consider a tad more accurate, because colleges find ways to twist around GPAs) Clemson has 50 % of its kids top 10% of HS, and 75% top 25%. Sat middle 50 percentile range is from 1140 - 1320. I agree it would be difficult to get into, but if you can boost your sats it wouldn’t be too bad. It would be easier than florida for example.</p>
<p>Also I didn’t know how low OOS admissions were to TAMU. That would make it much harder.</p>
<p>I guess I didn’t research Clemson enough but I looked them up on this thing I have from my school where it show you who was accepted/denied/wait-listed from colleges and only one person out of 7 have been accepted and they had a 93.7 GPA and a 1230 on their SAT, also someone was wait-listed who had a 89 GPA with a 1300 on their SAT. (Scores out of 1600 clearly). So, I really don’t know my chances. The other 5 who were denied were right around my level. Well, it’s worth a shot!</p>
<p>Most out of state public universities do not give good financial aid. Why not throw in some private schools or some SUNY’s? Siena is in NY and has a nice campus and are known to meet financial need.</p>
<p>I am not a huge fan of any of the SUNY’s. Geneseo smells like cows. Binghampton is cold. Albany is dirty. Cortland is trashy. Stony Brook is Long Island. Must I keep going?</p>
<p>I also really want to get out of New York, say I were not to get Financial Aid from Siena…it’s 36k a year! I would much rather have that going towards a school I actually want to go. Thanks for trying to help though GCmom!!</p>
<p>I had a B average in high school but my SAT score was 2010/2400 (1430/1600). If you want to get into Clemson you should have at least a B+ average to be safe and a SAT of 1150-1310 (out of 1600) or an ACT score of 25-30</p>