<p>Are there schools that provide a big campus feel plus an urban setting?
Please give me schools that I will have a chance of admittance. </p>
<p>GPA: 3.93
ACT: Will take next month
First Generation Student
Parents income is 100k, therefore; money may be an issue.
Minnesota Resident
Not as great ECs
Major: Political Science or any government based major</p>
<p>Go to princetonreview.com and make an account and they have a college search that requires you to fill in a lot of info such as: your gpa, test scores, ec involvement, what kind of campus you want, etc… it then shows you colleges that are a fit for you under three catagories: saftey,target, and reach.</p>
<p>It had the U of M as a reach. 
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<p>Thanks for the site</p>
<p>I take it you are looking for large full service national universities in big cities:
Miami, USC, UCLA, Northeastern, Boston University, American, George Washington, NYU</p>
<p>Also maybe Pittsburgh and Fordham</p>
<p>Exactly what I am looking for, except price may be an issue with some of the schools above</p>
<p>3.93 GPA should not be a reach for U of MN TC (is this based on a scale of 4?)</p>
<p>Is the 3.93 weighted or unweighted?</p>
<p>My school never really explained the whole GPA process. I managed to get a 4.20/4.00 for this year, which is why the GPA is weighted. The honors/AP boost is only a 1.1 instead of a 1.0 for general classes.</p>
<p>I don’t think my school uses unweighted because on our transcripts, it shows the GPA of 3.93. 3.93 is weighted because I received over a 4.0 so far this year</p>
<p>I got into the U of M with a 3.6 UW GPA.</p>
<p>Ohio State - big campus in an urban setting</p>
<p>OK, so your GPA is weighted. Your high school may not use weighted, but it’s easy enough to figure your unweighted GPA. Just look at your grades and assign each A a 4.0, A- 3.7, B+ 3.3, B 3.0, etc. Add them all up and divide by the number of classes. That gives you an unweighted GPA. Your weighted 3.93 is pretty good, but if I understand your school’s weighting system correctly, that’s 3.93 out of a possible 4.4. So unweighted that probably translates to somewhere between 3.5 and 3.6. Lots of people get into UMN-Twin Cities with GPAs in that range, but your test scores will need to be competitive.</p>
<p>As for alternatives, as a Minnesota resident you could go to any school in the University of Wisconsin system for in-state tuition rate. UW Madison is by far the best of them, but it’s probably going o be slightly more difficult to get in there than at “the U.” Not out of the question, though. I wouldn’t exactly call it “urban” though Madison is becoming a sizable city in its own right. More of a large college-town/state capital feel, but worth checking out. UW Milwaukee is more urban but not nearly as good a school and more of a commuter campus.</p>
<p>Other urban publics—UCLA, Pitt, U Washington, Georgia Tech, maybe Ohio State (though despite its size I don’t find Columbus to have a particularly “urban” feel)—are going to be much more expensive for an OOS student and generally don’t give good FA to OOS students. </p>
<p>Some privates are pretty urban: Harvard, Boston U, Northeastern, Brown, Columbia, NYU, Fordham, Penn, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, GW, American (though in a pretty quiet residential section of DC), Carnegie Mellon, Case Western, Emory, U Miami, Vanderbilt, WUSTL, Tulane, U Chicago, Northwestern, USC, for example, though many of these are going to be quite “reachy” for you if UMN-Twin cities is in the high match range. I’d say schools like DePaul or Loyola in Chicago, or Marquette in Milwaukee, might be good matches. But a lot is going to depend on your ACT/SAT scores. And some of these schools have great FA which might make them as cheap or cheaper than UMN or UW, while others will be more costly.</p>
<p>I recalculated my GPA to approximately 3.78. I am in the top nine percent of my class. My class rank looks more impressive than my GPA. Man, my recalculated GPA do not look good for the U’s PSEO program.</p>
<p>Thanks for everything!</p>