<p>I'm a 16 year old junior with a 3.23 weighted GPA and my first SAT score is 620 CR, 650 Math, 660 Writing (I've only taken it once so far but I'm planning on taking it two more times at least). My passion is art history and that is my prospective major. I need help finding non-selective colleges with good art history programs since my GPA is bad. I'm willing to go to all types of schools besides all girls schools and I want to go to a non-Florida school since I was born and raised in Fl. Please help me!</p>
<p>How much can your family afford? Going outside FL may not be possible. In-state tuition is lower because colleges are supported by state tax payers.</p>
<p>I was going to say Women’s colleges… Can you at least look into those? Many are part of a consortium (Mount Holyoke/Smith are part of a 5 college consortium, Bryn Mawr is in a consortium with Haverford and Swarthmore;Scripps is on the same campus as Pomona, Pitzer, Harvey Mudd, McKenna;) some are in urban areas with lots of colleges: Agnes Scott, Mills, Simmons, Trinity Washington, St Kate’s (in St Paul) - these last 4 would be readily accessible for you. Overall, for art history, you need to find the highest “brand” college that is affordable to you because art history can be difficult to negotiate into a career and having a network will be essential - hence, women’s colleges.
Your GPA precludes Williams etc. but it doesn’t mean you want “non selective” colleges: you want “very selective to moderately selective” colleges.
You would probably need to look for colleges in NYC, DC, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Minneapolis-St Paul, or LA but colleges for a 3.2 average in a big city are going to be horrendously expensive.
Except perhaps Minneapolis St Paul so look into Augsburg, Hamline, St Thomas which may be affordable (not sure).</p>
<p>Other universities near big cities: Lake Forest and Elmhurst (near Chicago); Drew, Sarah Lawrence, SUNY New Paltz, SUNY Purchase, Manhattanville, Quinnipiac, (near New York City); Shepherd U, Randolph, Sweet Briar, Roanoke, VCU, University Mary Washington, Goucher (within driving distance to DC); Albright, Arcadia, Moravian, Eastern (within driving distance to Philadelphia).</p>
<p>Perhaps Pittsburgh, they have the Andy Warhol museum and the city has changed a lot? What about the Southwest (Alburquerque, Tempe?)
Washington&jefferson, Slippery Rock, Chatham, Duquesne, UPitt for Pittsburgh. St Mary’s of California, Mills, USan Francisco, for San Francisco. These last 2 cities aren’t probably as good as the previous ones, not sure. Not sure for the Southwest.</p>
<p>In all cases, run the Net Price Calculator on each website then discuss the results with your parents to get an idea of how much they can afford (or are willing to pay). Then fill out the “join the mailing list/request info” questionnaires to a handful of those within your price range.</p>
<p>In Florida, beside the public universities (as a priority, you would need to look at internship opportunities at the college’s city’s museums), you could look into Florida Southern (Frank Lloyd Wright buildings) and Eckerd (artistic crowd). </p>
<p>almost every school considers the rigor of your courses to be very important. so let us know how many honors and AP courses you might be taking and intend to take. what is your unweighted GPA if you have it?</p>
<p>MYOS, I’d like to point out that the OP’s GPA is weighted. does she need to shoot lower?</p>
<p>I think Trinity Washington, Mills, Simmons, Florida Southern, Elmhurst, randolph, Shepherd… are likely to be matches. Some colleges are reaches (Agnes Scott, perhaps Eckerd, Sarah Lawrence, Goucher, UMW…) but I tried to include a mix.</p>
<p>Much will depend on how much your parents are willing to pay. Your GPA/rank will likely keep you out of the schools that give the best aid.</p>
<p>Less selective schools usually don’t give much aid except merit for high stats.</p>
<p>There’s no point in naming a bunch of schools if your parents have a limited budget. However, if your parents will pay $60k per year, there are many choices.</p>
<p>If you don’t know how much your parents will pay, ask them.</p>
<p>I am in AP art history right now which is my only AP but next year I’m planning on taking at least two more ap classes. I also am in honors us history and French 3 honors and also took honors history and French last year. As for my family’s financial status, we don’t apply for anything need based, and we do need some substantial financial aid if I’m going to be out of state or at a private school. Thanks so much for your suggestions! Please keep them coming!</p>
<p>private colleges don’t look at in-state or out-of-state status - in fact, if you come from 400+ miles you have be at a slight advantage since you’ll bring geographical diversity.
OOS public universities are only affordable if you can win big merit scholarships, but not all universities offer them. exceptions would be UMN-Twin Cities (the city is good for art), plus the CUNYs and SUNY New Paltz (NY museums) because their OOS costs aren’t too outlandish.
Sweet Briar, with its year in Paris, offers good opportunities in art history, too.</p>
<p>“As for my family’s financial status, we don’t apply for anything need based”</p>
<p>Do you mean you think you won’t qualify for anything need-based?</p>