<p>Seriously. Lol. I'm tired of all the potential HYP applicants with 6.0 gpa's and 36,000 ec's. I'm not a complete workaholic, and I just want to know where I stand in the college system. </p>
<p>I am sure there are more people like me in this regard, so this is a thread for us!
Give us some good schools for the B, B+ and A- students! </p>
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<p>And more for myself, what schools should I be looking at? Besides my local CC?</p>
<p>3.1 fresh/soph gpa
3.6 junior gpa
3 years tennis
1950 SAT (projection, could be higher)
IB diploma candidate</p>
<p>Right now, I don't want to narrow my responses by giving you filters. But I will say that what is important for me is: big(ger) university and on the east or west coast, no inland states</p>
<p>Also, some schools I have looked at include:</p>
<p>-UCSB
-UNC
-Delaware
-U. of Maryland
-W&M
-SDSU</p>
<p>so a chance on that, and a suggestion of other, similar schools, would be great!!</p>
<p>If you want to take a chance at an inland school, I would recommend UW-Madison. It really isn’t that bad being inland and it is right near Chicago.</p>
<p>Otherwise, if you live North Carolina or Virginia I would definitely recommend going to your big state school.</p>
<p>If not, my top three for you would be:
Penn State
Maryland
Washington-Seattle</p>
<p>Not to be glib or smug, but there are several huge directories available for you to research and since you are a junior you have all summer to do the research and even visit several schools, if not before. There are 2,000 colleges in the United States, most of whom accept “average students”. Though your definition of average is “above average” in reality, it only seems “average” on this board with the uber high stats being posted and bragged on. </p>
<p>However, UNC and William and Mary are very prestigious state schools and they only take the very best students…even in state and frankly your gpa is not high enough. State schools are being inundated with high caliber applications in the tens of thousands due to the economy and the ever increasing selectivity of private schools. Not to worry as there are hundreds or even a thousand schools out there who would love to have you and which might be a very good fit.</p>
<p>Start geographically. Make a list of 25-30 schools. Do the homework and then jump online and dig deeper into their programs and try to find out more about the campus culture. Narrow your list down to 15, then the final 10 to apply to. Then fire away. </p>
<p>Make sure you have a healthy mix of reach, match and safety schools and be prepared to embrace your safety school. Often safeties are the best place for you anyway and offer the most money. Dont apply to ANY school you can’t possibly see yourself attending and thriving, either at the top or the bottom of the list. Because being happy and thriving is much more important than where they are ranked on the USNWR.</p>
<p>endlessrecession (nice name ;P) I appreciate your honesty and your response.</p>
<p>I have done some research, but the thing is I am holding myself back, and I feel more comfortable getting customized feedback from real people in similar situations</p>
<p>You are not average with a 1900 SAT score. Far from it. Where do average kids go? CC’s and their state schools mostly.</p>
<p>Why focus on out of state, state schools. They are typically expensive and often, as in the case of the UC’s, don’t offer aid to out of staters. So for the same price or close, you can look at private schools that may give you aid if you qualify. </p>
<p>The only school I’m familiar with stats wise on your list is UCSB which has an average weighted GPA of 4.0 and average SAT score of about 1872.</p>
<p>Seriously, large public universities account for a substantial portion of student enrollment in higher ed. Despite the attention that privates and Ivy league schools get, they don’t represent that large of a part of student enrollment. I don’t know the numbers, but I fear that for profit or internet schools might account for a lot of people.</p>
<p>There are college search tools you can use, specifying your scores, GPA, geographic preferences, size of school, and so on, to get a list of colleges/universities which fit your criteria.</p>
<p>Most of my graduating class (about 30%) went to a CC in Riverside Community College or one of the local ones like Valley College in San Bernardino.</p>
<p>About 20% went to CSUs, </p>
<p>about 30% didn’t go to college</p>
<p>10% went to a UC,
and the other 10% went to some other university in some other state</p>
<p>Sadly, your grades are not high enough for “your big state school” if you live in Virginia. UVa, Wm & Mary and VaTech are very competitive. That said, there are many other state schools here which are very good. Take a look at George Mason, Mary Washington, VCU ( esp. for the Arts), Radford ( teaching), Christopher Newport, ODU, etc. </p>
<p>Consider going online or buying a guide to colleges and looking up schools in your state or another geographic area that interests you. Also, talk to your guidance counselor or whoever help with college planning at your high school, he/she will likely have some good suggestions.</p>
<p>You sound like someone with a lot to offer. There is a school for you ( actually, several) and you will find it.</p>
<p>If money is an issue and it looks like you’re interested in a big state school, is there a specific reason why you don’t want to go to a college in-state? </p>
<p>If you’re in one of the (mostly eastern) states covered by the Academic Common Market (do a Google search for it), you can attend an out-of-state school at the in-state cost as long as you choose a major that is not offered in your state. You can search by state and programs at the Web site.</p>
<p>Augusta State University
Clayton State University
Kean University
California State University: Dominguez Hills
California State University: Northridge
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
Plymouth State University</p>
<p>No, kook. Haha. I’m just a beach lover, and for the last 10 or so years I’ve been living 5 hours inland. Its not the people, just the environment. And it kills me! </p>
<p>What are some good private universities on the coasts that I have chances of getting into? Like - NYU would be pretty tough for me, and USC impossible. But what about the schools that are a notch less selective, but similar, to those?</p>