<p>The schools you listed just aren’t practical with your SAT scores. Students get turned away from the colleges you listed with 2100+ SAT Scores. Lower your sights a little bit, suceed wherever you go, then try to transfer to a better place as you probably won’t be required to show your SAT Scores.</p>
<p>Big thing holding you back is SAT score.</p>
<p>So I used the college search tool here, and the colleges I got were terrible. (Ouch.)</p>
<p>The graduation rates are extremely low (some 15%!), and the GPAs and SATs are much lower than mine. I DID click the option to get schools with lower standards so I had a higher chance of financial aid, but… should these be considered safety schools, and in that case should I aim a bit higher? I know my family would KILL me if I went to such terrible schools lol.</p>
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2 years at CC, 2 years at state university.</p>
<p>I don’t think you have the stats for most of the schools that will meet full need. You can certainly try, but make sure you have other plans in place.</p>
<p>Also, it’s very important to remember that the schools decide how much aid you “need” to attend, not you or your family. Have you completed a FAFSA form and calculated an Expected Family Contribution figure?</p>
<p>OP, what’s the problem with going to, for example, SUNY Buffalo? Or any of the non-NYC SUNY schools? Most students in your position - who have issues with finances/grades/scores - go to their instate publics. I don’t understand why this isn’t a route you’re pursuing. </p>
<p>Go to a SUNY, do very well there. Perhaps you can go to a “top” school for a grad program, perhaps you can transfer after 2 years. But it’s silly to be spending so much time agonizing over schools, or researching 3-rd tier institutions, when you have perfectly good instate options.</p>
<p>What high school do you go to? Just wondering.</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>Do not answer that question.</p>
<p>*DID click the option to get schools with lower standards so I had a higher chance of financial aid, but… should these be considered safety schools, *</p>
<p>NO, you can’t just assume that a school with “lower standards” will be a safety for you. There are many, many schools that will easily admit you, but will NOT give you the aid you need for these schools to be affordable. </p>
<p>Schools that admit with students with the lower stats that you’re talking about rarely have much “free money” to give away. They often don’t have much merit money, either. </p>
<p>A safety school is one that will admit you AND you know FOR SURE that it will be affordable because of: ASSURED grants, ASSURED merit scholarships, small fed loans, and family funds. </p>
<p>Frankly, unless your family will pay for you to go where you want, their opinions really don’t matter. Any parent who figuratively will “kill you” for going to an affordable school that will get you to your professional goals needs to either “put up or shut up.”</p>
<p>I’m not a stalker, I’m a student in NYC who’s username is his school’s name who is asking a question. PM me if you must. Maybe we’re neighbors.</p>
<p>@noimagination: Ah. We haven’t completed FAFSA… I heard we’re not supposed to until after January 1st.</p>
<p>@katliamom: No problem at this point. I’d rather not, but at the same time there are colleges five hours away, so sure. I just don’t know which SUNYs I can get into yet.</p>
<p>@mom2collegekids: I didn’t assume. To quote the College Search tool on here: “I’m interested in schools where I would be well above average, to increase my financial aid opportunities” I checked that. How can I find a school who will give me any aid? It doesn’t sound like anyone will. There’s nothing I can afford. Community’s cheapest, but I can’t even afford that. I mean, I’ve got $50,000 for college (so I guess I can afford community). That’s it. For the whole four years, maybe more as I want to triple major, and plus medical school. All saved up by my grandparents (thanks for caring about my education, mom and dad.)</p>
<p>I always get bashed by my grandpa here for wanting to go to college out of state. He’s says I’m stupid, even for wanting to go to an Ivy (stats aside, and yes I know I can’t get in, no need to remind me.). Almost every school I mention to him is a “crap” school (so if I actually mentioned a crap school, he probably wouldn’t talk to me anymore.) One aunt says I’m an idiot for working so hard and aiming so high and that there’s something wrong with me, another laughs when I consider colleges in the Midwest because there’s nothing there but tumbleweeds. My mom listens to her psychics who assure her I’m a genius going to Princeton (I don’t listen to them), my dad says I’ll go wherever I want (he’s the only supportive one, but he says I overwork myself). And then my grandparents just want me to go to school in their country. I agree with you that they all need to “put up or shut up.”</p>
<p>As for answering, I have to admit… I actually met someone on here who had the same teacher as me (different period though). Then she happened to sit next to me during the Regents and she’s like “You’re Sabrina? I’m that girl on CollegeConfidential.” and I was like “WOAH.” LOL!</p>
<p>LOL. Oh my God that’s hilarious xD The summer before 9th grade I started a Facebook group for Class of '13 and a bunch of kids joined it and when we were getting our schedules I saw a girl from the group and I told my friend, “Hey, that’s ___________!” and she looked at us :P</p>
<p>I’m going to ask this again… but Vanderbilt? The college search tool matched me to it.</p>
<p>Lawrence University
Taylor University
Rockhurst University</p>
<p>(I’m assuming all these schools allow triple majoring based on some Googling, but feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.)</p>
<p>I’m also going to add two SUNYs to my list, but for now, what about these out of state colleges?</p>
<p>SAT I: R: 540 M: 530 W: 500</p>
<p>something is not right.</p>
<p>No way is Vandy a “match” for you. </p>
<p>Vandy would be a very high reach for you.</p>
<p>Only 4% of Vandy’s students have test scores like yours. That means that those are special admits…like needed football players.</p>
<p>You would need your test score sections to be in the 700s for Vandy to be a match for you…and even then it’s hard to be accepted since it accepts less than 20% of applicants.</p>
<p><a href=“http://i158.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/t120/brinazarski2/vanderbilt.png[/url]”>http://i158.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/t120/brinazarski2/vanderbilt.png</a></p>
<p>Glitch? And I know my score should be 1570, I was doing it from memory. What about the other schools?</p>
<p>not a glitch…they’re only using the Math + CR score. They’re not using the Writing score.</p>
<p>So when they say the avg SAT is a 1479, that is just using those two sections. It is typical to only use the M+CR.</p>
<p>Your M+CR is a 1070. </p>
<p>Be sure to note those kinds of details when putting in numbers.</p>
<p>Use the matching system again with your 1070 M+CR SAT.</p>
<p>But the score scale is on a 2400 scale. I looked up Harvard and their average was like 22-something…</p>
<p>Yes, several kids from our school with excellent grades and SAT CR+M greater than 1500 were rejected by Vandy this year.</p>
<p>See the Vandy SAT score distributions here:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg02_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=1562[/url]”>http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg02_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=1562</a></p>
<p>And discussion here:</p>
<p><a href=“http://admissions.vanderbilt.edu/vandybloggers/2010/12/understanding-the-mid-50/[/url]”>http://admissions.vanderbilt.edu/vandybloggers/2010/12/understanding-the-mid-50/</a></p>
<p>What website college search tool did you use?</p>
<p>@BobWallace: Thanks for the info!</p>
<p>@mom2collegekids: CollegeConfidential! [College</a> Search - College Confidential](<a href=“http://www.collegeconfidential.com/college_search/]College”>http://www.collegeconfidential.com/college_search/)</p>
<p>I’m starting to worry that it’s off now and the other three colleges aren’t matches.</p>
<p>I think it’s time you stopped listening to your family’s opinions about schools. Very few schools are truly ‘crap’ and while you’re not an ‘idiot’ it’s highly unlikely you’ll be headed to Princeton 
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<p>But I agree about those SATs: they seem very low for some of the schools you’re interested in, though I still think a SUNY would be better than a school like Taylor University.</p>
<p>@katliamom: I don’t really listen to them, just tired of hearing them. Hmm… any good out-of-state schools I could get into? I want to put four out-of-state on my list, and two SUNYs.</p>
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