<p>corb, we need more info. What does your son want to major in? Is there an area of the country he would prefer? Taking the ACT was a great idea, lots of kids (including my D) who just don’t “get” the SAT do better on the ACT.</p>
<p>athletic training/kinesology. preferably not california and not the south/southwest</p>
<p>If your schedule permits, Moravian is near DeSales and a good match for your son. If you pass by either Reading or Scranton, PA en route, Albright and Scranton are, too.</p>
<p>I will be interested in your Marist/St Joe comparison. Your NY/NE schools are fine choices; Pa has a lot to offer not far from you, too.</p>
<p>Jumping in with some Marist love. I didn’t expect to like it as much as I did. Facilities were modern and view was spectacular. Info session was very professional and among the best we’ve attended. I thought they answered all questions directly and completely. DS went as a favor to us, ended up ranking it in his top 5.</p>
<p>yabeyabe2 - I was thinking about Scranton. Not sure why Scranton has an acceptance rate of 66% while St. Joe’s acceptance rate is 86%. Would Scranton be a reach for my son?</p>
<p>mrsveebee - I was surprised with Marist also. My S loves the school, his #1 choice but a reach for him. I am trying to find other colleges he will love. What are your son’s other top choices?</p>
<p>[Freshman</a> Students - Accepted Student Profile: Marist College](<a href=“http://www.marist.edu/admission/freshman/profile.html]Freshman”>Undergraduate Accepted Student Profile - Marist College)</p>
<p>Our youngest son goes to Marist. Applications have risen dramatically over the past couple of years. The quality of students gaining acceptance has also risen.</p>
<p>Average SAT==1730-1920
10,000 applied==35.9% acceptance rate</p>
<p>Most of the kids that he’s come to know at the school came into Marist having taken multiple AP classes during high school.</p>
<p>nysmile - Wow, that is higher then I thought. I hope to find another school my son falls in love with. Do you think Marist would perfer their application or the common app. is OK?</p>
<p>I don’t think it matters one way or the other. When using the common application for schools, be sure to always check to see if supplemental material is needed.</p>
<p>Maryann, there is a poster on CC–I believes Kitty56–who loves Scranton and would be happy to discuss it if you sent a PM. I do not think it is as much a reach as Marist. I was surprised by the 86% figure, as it is higher than the average GPA/SAT scores would suggest (I saw the 86% figure on several websites, but also saw 56 and 62%). Marist is a fine school and may attract more nonCatholic applicants than SJU because it is no longer a Catholic school.
There is unfortunately no Scranton CC site, but there is an SJU site and visit reports.</p>
<p>yabeyabe2 - I sent a private note to Kitty56. </p>
<p>Do you think acceptance at SJU would be easier as a biology major or a business major?</p>
<p>Maryann, my pure guess would be business–given it is a separate school, I imagine they have many more openings–and bio attracts many pre-meds with strong GPAs.
Perhaps the CC SJU board might have a current student’s response (although the college specific boards seem very quiet thus far).</p>
<p>Does anyone have any knowledge of Widener College?</p>
<p>He LOVES Muhlenberg (he’s a theater/media kid), but it’s a reach; Loyola, Fairfield, Ithaca, Roanoke (even though they have a small theater program, but he loves the choir), Elon (super reach), and Hofstra are on the list. If his grades and SATs pick up a tiny bit he should be OK. His theater/music hook will either make or break him at some (depending on auditions) He applied early to Roanoke and we should hear this week. If he’s in there, we can breathe a bit. If deferred, we’ll look more closely at some of his safer choices. (Susquehanna, some in-state options, Pace U.)</p>
<p>I visited Widener last fall on a Friday afternoon. The campus was completely deserted. The campus is pretty, but it is in a bad area of Philly and something was just “off” about the whole school, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. It’s the only school that we visited that he isn’t applying to. Have you looked at Kutztown, York and West Chester - all state schools in PA. They accept students within this gpa range and OOS tuition isn’t bad.</p>
<p>MaryAnn - Marist, Stonehill and especially PC are considered to be reachy at our HS. Our GC said that it is very hard to predict acceptances at Marist and that Stonehill and PC have become much more competetive. It’s the 3.5 students that seem to be getting in. </p>
<p>I’m also interested in your opinion of St Joes…</p>
<p>corb67 - have you checked out Springfield College. My second oldest is working with a trainer who graduated a few years ago and he is amazing. I’ve heard great things about the school.</p>
<p>All I know about Widener is that a friend sent her child there when he had very few options and he hated it. Two PA schools that get generally good reviews as LACs in small cities are Lycoming and Elizabethtown. Both accept kids from our HS in the 3.0 1000 range pretty readily. One is near Hershey and the other Williamsport.</p>
<p>Yeah!!! The first application is completed and has been submitted. The second is almost done also. Now I just have to get the school to send out all the materials… They package everything so once the teacher’s recs are all done that should make it easier.</p>
<p>We visited E-Town. Nice feel to it. Good engineering programs and stong study abroad opportunities. Church of the Bretheren affiliation. </p>
<p>One thing to note, too. The admissions officer said that, of students who interview, 87% get in. This is considerably higher than their overall admission rate.</p>
<p>Elizabethtown’s engineeing is 3+2 with Penn State. </p>
<p>(Sorry if I sound like a broken record for pointing this out repeatedly, but I feel let down every time I find a nice small school “with engineering” that turns out to be a 3+2, requiring 5 years of tuition and a transfer out of the nice small school after 3 years)</p>
<p>Well, you need to really examine each situation closely. For example, at UNC-A, I was told through admissions that students who decide to do engineering transfer out bc they do not offer engineering. This was in response to my questions about why the graduation rate was so low.</p>
<p>When we visited UNC-A we spoke with a student who was an engineering major, who was from OOS. He told us that they have a program where one participates in engineering classes through one of the other public schools in the NC system, without leaving UNC-A’s campus. It is done electronically (TV hook up) and the students at UNC-A actively participate in class discussion, etc. We were never told about this program through admissions. We found out about it purely by accident when we bumped into an engineering major on campus!</p>