If it’s supply chain, Michigan State, ASU, and UTK are the three you want to most target although kids get supply chain jobs from all over - it’s been a hot major for 30 years.
Management - ehhhhhh - it’s so general it’s a hard major to find good stuff although kids do.
Marketing - anyone can do marketing (you don’t need the major) - but it’s a better major than it was. Very quant today. But I can make that statement for supply chain too.
Anyway, you have lots of good schools on your list but yeah, add a few more likelies.
Your internships and development will likely come from handshake (school website), indeed, and linkedin - that’s how it is today. There’s not a bad school on the list or recommended list. Yes, schools may or can influence but far less so today.
I would worry less about that. If your kid hustles, he’ll find an internship. If he doesn’t, he won’t - and I don’t care if it’s Indiana State vs. Indiana.
PS - testing - it’s a tough one. For IU, it doesn’t matter - you have to petition. And for those majors, I’m not sure it’s “better” than others on your list. It’s solid - but not going to move the needle much salary wise, etc.
For U of SC - I would. You’re a tad over the 50 percentile. And half submit. You’d qualify for the last scholarship on the link. That said, you might contact them to ask scholarship avail if TO to make sure this wouldn’t reduce your scholarship (submitting).
Yes I think you are correct Clemson will probably know the school. Presumably if kids from your school went there and did will that will help the application. Good luck.
@tsbna44 I’m surprised by your UW GPA calculation. Our school does not calculate it but I calculated my D24 using 3.7 for A minus and 3.3 for B plus. This is what two colleges told me they do. One school told me they use 4.3 for A plus and the other told me they use 4.0 for A or A plus. The calculation comes out a lot different if you do it without factoring in any plusses or minuses at all. Better that way for us since she has a lot of A minus. So I hope it’s true for some schools. Ha!
Here some option we did…Go TO. Try another SAT. If score is better, call school and self-report through email (using pdf from College Board) it directly to admission (without paying money).
1290 is a bit too low to report in my opinion, especially in NOVA area. If it would move into 1350+ area I would report to some (not VT). Usually people get advice to report 1400 and above for general majors and 1500 and above for engineering.
It might be a little further than he was hoping for, but has he considered U. of Cincinnati? It places a really strong emphasis on co-ops, so that most students graduate with valuable work experience. If he likes the co-op idea, Drexel in Philadelphia would be another possibility (not as big, and north but not south, but PSU’s on the list, so…). I think both would be likely admits for your son. Cincy freezes tuition for four years for entering students (all Ohio publics do), so that is one cost advantage. But yes, Virginia has an awesome array of publics to choose from.
And if he’s open to Philadelphia, he might want to look into Saint Joseph’s, too. It’s more mid-sized (4-5k) but it has a very good reputation for its business school, and Jesuit educations tend to be quite strong.
This is a simple elementary school math problem: convert all semester grades in academic courses to A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1, F=0, add them up, and divide by the number of grades.
No one outside your school, district, or county knows what the weighted GPA provided by your school means. For example, it could mean straight A grades with light weighing, or a B average with heavy weighting.
I understand what you’re saying and of course it’s a simple math problem. However, the back/forth on this thread alone highlights the reason that our HS and county say to simply take the weighted GPA (along with the transcript) at face value and not try to engineer an unweighted GPA because there isn’t a set standard for what to include or what scale to use. It sounds like some only calculate with core courses but others include all grades and others refine with giving a different score for +/-. A county near us even bumps up with for A+. Our county and HS are well known to all the schools on the list but I understand your asking to be able to provide feedback per my request.
Weighted GPA has the same problems you describe with unweighted GPA, plus the unknown (to those outside of your school or county) weighting factors used. The different weighting factors can be larger than the differences caused by +/- or other differences in how unweighted GPA is calculated.
There’l is a standard for UW. It’s whole #s. Not all use but it’s the standard. Most use. And it’s a simple calculation for you. Just don’t use + and -
Weighted is a mess. Most common is .5 for honors ahd 1 for AP but all are different.
Most base on a 4 out of 4 unweighted.
We are trying to help u. That’s how most colleges will see it. So we can guide you better.
You have asked members of this community to help provide college suggestions. To do that, it would be helpful to know a basic unweighted GPA.
There is no need to over think this. Eliminate non academic courses such as PE and TA. Tell us how many semesters of As, Bs, Cs, Ds and Fs your student received. Don’t worry about minus or plus. Some colleges may include the minus or plus, but for the sake of College Confidential advice, you don’t need to worry about them. We will calculate an uw gpa that will help us to more accurately provide suggestions.
I think my #9 including other schools is still on par and if PSU doesn’t hit your desire (or IU). I don’t see a need to keep them on. Given what the student may want to study, I don’t think they provide any advantage vs schools in the preferred geography.
Sorry not sure I follow your #9 reference. To clarify, you are suggesting eliminating PSU and IU since they’re out of the geography range and aren’t all that advantageous? I can see that. PSU already submitted but may eliminate IU for that reason. It is highly ranked but I am hearing complaints of overcrowding, etc.
I’m suggesting if your student wants to head south and not north and west, given the desire of management, supply chain, or marketing as majors, IU isn’t going to give you much of an advantage vs Bama, U of SC, FSU, UTK, UCF…in my opinion.
In the end, it’s about the kid and hustle.
You have to be somewhere for four years, day after day. Why be somewhere you don’t want to be?
Many schools have overcrowding so you’d have to check school by school.