NYC Small Colleges

Try Barnard. It’s a reach of course but may as well apply.

I would contact Marymount Manhattan directly to see if they would be willing to entertain an application for Spring admission.
My experience is that as long as the student isn’t applying to an audition-based major, they will probably be willing to look at a new student.

Thank you all for the additional suggestions. Pace and Marymount Manhattan are two I looked at prior to my OP, and wondered about contacting them directly, so I appreciate that suggestion. Hunter College was another possible option.

Any thoughts on Borough Manhattan Community College?

Barnard will be a stretch for sure, she’s in the range but on the very low end based off of CDS 2018-2019.

She us working in her portfolio now, hoping to have that completed before New Years Day.

The essays prove to be the biggest emotional hurdle at the moment, trying to sound positive and all that.

Can do on the spot admission at borough of manhattan, to get started,. once she has 24 credits she can transfer to a 4-year CUNY/SUNY

I just discovered the term Direct Admit via the CUNY website, so thanks for that suggestion @sybbie719. There are actually a few schools doing this, which might be nice for folks to know, if they happen to be in a similar situation.

Many of the CUNY Schools are offering direct admission for spring.
Your D’s sat scores will demonstrate that she has meet the CUNY college readiness metrics and will not need remediation
https://www.cuny.edu/admissions/undergraduate/direct/

She will need an official high school transcript

official scores (SAT/ACT 2950- CUNY processing center and all CUNY schools or just send them to the individual school)

pay the fee

She should also supply her immunization records

Barnard does have holistic assessment. Considering their acceptance rate, their stats could command much higher test score averages, if they wanted to. So they DO look beyond GPA, but then there has to be a very convincing alternative reason why this young lady looks she would be an asset to the school.

Barnard has the “small school” feeling (as much as this can be said for Manhattan), some think of the entire college as a sorority of sorts. However the huge plus is the access to all the courses the Columbia University has to offer, as well as all of Columbia’s facilities - even study-abroad options, fellowships, etc. For someone that’s undecided, that allows for quite a bit of exploration/self-discovery in the first 1 1/2 years, possibly yielding suprising fields of interest that originally had not been seriously considered.

The smaller student/prof ratio and the lack of a rigid “core” is also helpful.