<p>I'm trying to figure out if I should apply to St. Louis University. I'm by no means the Average CC member, but rather a student with a 21 ACT and 2.8ish GPA. Despite the awful GPA and ACT, I have some very very good EC's, leadership positions, and very good teacher recs with a 4.14 first quarter senior year. (grades are going up.) Currently looking at the colleges I'm applying to, I'm already in at University of Nebraska, and Iowa State.The others I'm looking at such as Wabash, Purdue, and Indiana seem to be reaches for me. I'm wanting to go to a well known school, with a diverse school population. I'm wanting to go into economics. Should I consider applying to SLU?</p>
<p>I'm also from St.Louis and have my own opinions on the school. Do any of you have an opinions on the school?</p>
<p>If you like the urban feel surrounded by a crummy neighborhood and continuing the famous St. Louis high school defines you forever, by all means go there. It isn't a bad education but the thought of perpetuating "what school did you go to" and not meaning college is very depressing. You will hear it for the rest of your long life. Enough already, it is over the top. No one outside of St. Louis cares what high school you attended. It is one of the most obnoxious, class and status identifying stupid questions ever asked.</p>
<p>Time to get out of the box and move away from Veiled Prophet city.</p>
<p>I agree...Muscitoad, I am so confused by your post. The OP never even mentioned high school...except that he is from St. Louis!
Care to clarify?</p>
<p>SLU is in the same environment as WashU but a little more Urban since it is actually in STL. I live here in STL and if you drive alittle bit above WashU your in a ghetto war zone (Looks like Bahgdad).</p>
<p>Check collegeboard and see what the average ACT is. I know the GPA is higher, but if you retake and do better on the ACT, you should get in.</p>
<p>Growing up in the St.Louis bubble means that high school is be all and end all of existence. SLU is dominated by the locals which means large amounts of cliques from the various high schools. This high school thing is the subject of introductions: "Jim went to CBC"; "Jana is a St. Joe girl" even when the person is over fifty. If you move here and are not a native you will lose your mind.
SLU is a Jesuit school, urban sidewalks, patches of green, surrounded by red brick buildings and lots of cars driving up and down grand avenue. Travel a few blocks beyond its "campus" and youre asking for death or maiming.</p>