Students with 80-85

Students with 80-85 or 2.5 to 3.0 where did you get accepted into or are attending.? Mentions all schools and stats!

MY son was around a 2.7 with an 1150 SAT, I think. Education/history major. Accepted to:
Pennsylvania- Millersville, Bloomsburg, Kutztown, York College
NJ - Rowan, Stockton, Ramapo
VT - Castleton

There was one more but I can’t remember!

Was anyone accepted into any sunys or CUNY’s?

In the last 6 months you’ve started half a dozen threads asking similar questions. Where you can attend depends on your grades, test scores, and finances. You’ve received a lot of good suggestions.

I’m not clear about your finances. In one thread you said your parents can pay $30k/year (more than enough for a SUNY) and in another you asked if there are special scholarships for kids on the spectrum. I know you have a year before you have to apply, buy it’s not too early to ask your parents what your budget is.

You should talk to your guidance counselor. They can tell you where students with similar stats were accepted. Is there a community college that you can commute to for 2 years if you don’t get accepted to the SUNY(s) you want?

@austinmshauri I’m probably going to apply SUNY two years such as SUNY Adirondack or SUNY broome. They have dorms. With all due respect since you look at every thread I post you should have seen that I go to a very large public school with 3 college counselors. They are always busy ive tried numerous times to speak with them. So basically I’m going through this process with my own judgement I turned to this forum site to help steer me in the right direction so I don’t make a drastic mistake. As far as finances go I have said contradictory statements because if I was to go to a private college my uncle would cover the costs but I really don’t want to put him in that position. With my own family we can afford a Suny. The issue I don’t know if I could get into any of them due to bad grades my first three semesters of high school. I’m still unsure. My first three semesters were a 80, 74, and another 74 but since then I got a 90 then this semester a 88. So I really have no clue what I am doing. Sorry for going to a forum that is specialized in these questions to help steer me in the right direction.

80= 2.7 /85=3.0. Looks like your GPA is in the 80s, so solid B-.

SUNYs : for a safety, beside Broome, look into TC3 (they have forms etc)

Plattsburgh is good and you definitely have a shot.
Perhaps Oneonta or Oswego.

Prepare for the SAT or ACT and try to increase your score, it’ll help you a lot. Your options will be different depending on your score - 1000 v 1200 can be pretty dramatic.

How rigorous has your college preparation been? Have you taken foreign language through level 2 or 3? What math are you taking? Any Honors/accelerated/AP classes?

Not all majors are similarly competitive: what are you thinking of?

Run the NPC on
St Anselm
St Bonaventure
St Michael’s
Champlain
Millersville
Bloomsburg
West Chester
Elizabethtown
Lycoming
Lebanon valley
Arcadia
York
Duquesne
Point Park
Goucher
Mount st. Mary’s
Salve Regina

Universities like Drew and Ursinus would be reachable reaches.

Private universities will usually offer more support. You need to run the NPC to see whether any would be affordable.

@MYOS1634 what about other sunys such as Fredonia, Potsdam, Brockport, canton, and old westbury.

@MYOS1634 I’m taking algebra 2 I got a 91 in it for the first semester I’m taking italian 3 and possibly Italian college extension next year. I got a 88 the first semester of junior year. Hopefully that will. Make up for the first three rough semesters of high school. Which i got a 78 the freshman year and a 82 sophomore year and I’m on pace to get close to a 90 junior year. I did do poorly 52 in geometry first semester of soph year and 55 in first semester of algebra Frosh year but got a 91 in junior year in algebra2/ trig. And I’m in sat prep a couple of times a week. And I plan on sending senior year grades in so I think I can get my cumulative toa 83-84 and a weighted to a 84-87. So what are my options?

Fredonia is a low match (your odds are very good).
Run the NPC on the 4 others and pick 1 you like better than TC3 or Broome.

Practical adviceon “how to build your college list”, since you have an overbooked GC - sorry if that’s old news to you.
1° Before you start, you need to know how much your parents can afford from income and savings.

  • If you’re a NYS resident or graduate from a NYS HS AND your family makes 125K or less, college is tuition-free.
  • If your family is low income, you can qualify for EOP (at SUNYs) or HEOP (at private universities), ie., a boost to get into a university + extra support both financial (small) and academic/social (super important).
  • If you have something they’re interested in (they don’t have many students like you, or you have high test scores, or you’re a great hockey player…) colleges can practice “preferential packaging” ie., give you money just because you’re you, because they want you to attend their college. Not all colleges do this.
  • Some private universities have good financial aid, too.
  • You can borrow $5,500, no questions asked.
    Run the NPC on all colleges listed on this page. (One by one, because each colleges has its own formula). Type “name of college”+ “NPC”. Look at the NET PRICE.
    If that price is higher than your savings + your parents’ offer + 5.5K, then cross it out.
    Cross out the colleges that aren’t within budget.
    2° Build your list from the ground up. The “ground” is what is sure, rock solid. Also called a safety or a likely. Broome or TC3 are one or two such safeties for you.
    Potsdam, Brockport, Canton, and Old Westbury are also safeties for you, so pick the one you like best from that list. You need a minimum of 2 safeties but there’s nothing wrong with having more, as long as you like them.
    3° Then, add 3-5 matches (where your odds are 50-50) and a couple reaches (where, realistically, you’re not getting in, but who knows - sure, it’s hard to imagine and highly unlikely, but not completely out of the realm of possibility.) Check out conditions for scholarships at the safeties/likelies and match schools.
    Obviously, likelies/safeties, matches, and reaches MUST be affordable so you must run the NPC on each of them.

A final list might look like this:
Safeties/likelies - Broome, Potsdam, Canton
Matches: Plattsburgh, Fredonia, Goucher, Elizabethtown, Lycoming, St Michael’s
Reaches: Oswego, Cortland, Ursinus, Arcadia, Susquehanna

If you’re lower income (could qualify for free or reduced lunch) you can request a fee waiver and apply for free.

When it’s August before senior year: you apply right away to your safeties and make sure to apply to the Honors Program there, too. Then, between August and the end of October, you apply everywhere else, EA whenever possible, Rolling whenever it’s not. Then you wait…

Did you make up and retake those Geometry classes/grades?
Keep up the good work in Algebra2! See if your teacher will recommend you for AP Statistics or Statistics.
Taking Italian 3 is excellent. If you can take Italian 4 through concurrent enrollment it’d increase your rigor.
Make sure you have 4 units/years of English and Social science/History, as well as Living Environments, Chemistry, and Conceptual Physics (or equivalent) and a class in art (drawing, sculpting, music…)

For instance you could take English 12 honors, Government, statistics, conceptual physics, Italian 4, and some sort of art-related class…

@MYOS1634 I’m a prospective finance major. All my classes are core. I’m taking astronomy junior year it’s not a bad class it’s very math based. My teacher says he would recommend me for ap statistics or college extension calculus. I passed bot math classes due to second semester grades and the regents. Will failing those semesters effect me as a finance or marketing major? And I’m probably taking either college extension chem or physics honors next year.

If you want to major in Finance, then you need to take Precalculus. If you’re allowed to, take college extension statistics too. Finance majors need to be very strong in math.
Yes failing these semesters will affect you as either a finance major (strong analytical/calculus background needed for modelization) or marketing major (strong background in statistics and data analytics needed to find a job). So a criterion is math ability and results. That’s why doing as well as you can in Algebra 2 then taking both Precalculus and statistics would be a way of offsetting your earlier grades, showing you CAN do higher level math.

No need to take Physics honors or college extension chem - conceptual physics is fine. Focus on your math, don’t overdo it with science. If you want to add a hard class that will really help you, take Honors English or AP English Language.

@MYOS1634 so should I just apply undeclared? Or if there is business undeclared should I apply as that? Would it be easy to go from undeclared to a finance major?

It really depends on the college.
For some colleges, you can apply undecided and decide later, no restrictions - I know that’s the way it is at St Michael’s for instance.
For some colleges, you MUST apply undecided because you can only enter the major after a rigorous 2-year process (that’s the way it’s done at Penn State including branch campuses like Altoona - strictly speaking it’s a bit more complicated but since you’re not interesedt I’ll leave it at that).
For some colleges, you may apply for business or undecided, as you prefer.
Finally, for some colleges, you MUST apply for business because they make it very difficult to switch or change.
So, you should email each university’s admission office or read the website.
(Example of a message: Dear Madam, Dear Sir, My name is … and I am a prospective student, currently enrolled at … high school as a junior. I’m interested in your finance major but I’m really not sure that’s what I want to study. At your university, can one apply undecided and, once we’ve taken a few courses, decide to go into anything of interest such as finance, marketing, statistics, economics, data science…? Or should I apply for one of these majors directly - if so, how difficult is it to switch? What would you advise? Thank you very much. Sincerely, … …)

@MYOS1634 I have one more question thank you for being so helpful. will the two semesters I got a 74 and the my 52 in geometry and 55 in algebra 1 frosh year and soph year derail my application all together. Even though the rest of high school I got between a 88-90. Those two rough semesters were the second and third semester of high school. I’m on pace to bring my gpa to like a 82-83. So would it derail my app? Thank you for your help!

My advice would be to apply to colleges that admit broadly to business or business undecided and you apply to a specific major within the school of business later OR to colleges where you can freely switch majors.
These two semesters won’t derail your application altogether, especially if your junior grades are good (A-B), but you’ll be better off applying a bit more broadly than if they hadn’t happened. Hence the list in #8 being a bit longer - but with that list (or a similar one), you’re covered.

If your guidance counselors are always busy that must be really frustrating. Having a bad semester or two, especially as a freshman or sophomore, won’t derail your applications, especially if your family can afford the SUNY schools. Have you checked out Potsdam, Fredonia, or Plattsburgh? Your GPA may be in range for them. What’s your SAT? You may be in range for Oneonta or Oswego too.

@austinmshauri do you know if sunys care about weighted gpa because my weighted gpa which my school puts on the transcript is a 83.7 my unweighted is a 80.9.

SUNY puts out a [url=<a href=“https://www.suny.edu/media/suny/content-assets/documents/summary-sheets/Admissions_qf_stateop.pdf%5Dsummary%5B/url”>https://www.suny.edu/media/suny/content-assets/documents/summary-sheets/Admissions_qf_stateop.pdf]summary[/url] of each college’s admisions data for the previous year. It lists the mid-50% test scores and GPAs for each campus, but it doesn’t say if the GPAs are weighted or unweighted. Your test scores are solidly in the mid-50% range for Plattsburgh, Oneonta, and Fredonia, so I think those are good targets. Your test score is on the high end of Brockport’s mid-50% range, so I’d definitely apply there. If you want to try for a couple of reaches you may want to add Cortland and/or Oswego to your list.