<p>I'd like to start out by thank you for reading this and offering your advice. So basically I really messed up in high school, I'm a senior right now and I have about 2.5-2.6 GPA(a little more than half honors courses and 1 AP). I realize that's terrible and I'm really ashamed of it to be honest but Id rather not get into the reasons why. Although I will say it's certainly not excusable, I never applied myself in the least. I have a 1750 SAT score (CR:640 M:520 W:590) and almost no extracurriculars. I'm totally lost, regardless of where I start, I plan to work my but off and eventually transfer upward. This is a current list of schools I plan on applying to but I honestly have no clue what to expect please give guidance, suggest schools etc.
Thank you so much in advance!</p>
<p>Prospective major: Finance/Econ or business
NJ resident, legacy at TCNJ and Rutgers
Quinnipiac
TCNJ
Rutgers NB
Seton Hall (honors program)
(Sent)Arcadia
Wagner
Babson
Syracuse
American
Maryland Baltimore County
Fordham
(Sent)Hofstra
(Sent)St.Johns
Marist</p>
<p>I think you need to apply to a NJ public college that is a little less selective than TCNJ and Rutgers New Brunswick. I’m not that familiar with schools in the NJ state system but I’m sure there are people here who can help you out.</p>
<p>I’d also question your applying to so many private colleges unless money is no obstacle. Your GPA and test scores are not going to produce significant merit aid even if you do get admitted.</p>
<p>The other option is to go to a community college, do well there, and then transfer to one of the more selective state universities that are probably out of reach for you currently.</p>
<p>State universities like Rutgers often have pre-made articulation agreements with same-state community colleges, so that you can know what courses to take to prepare for transfer:</p>
Does that mean your family will pay up to $60K/year for college? If so, great. If you think you’ll borrow all the funds you need, it doesn’t work that way. You can only borrow a total of $27K for your college. Anything else has to be cosigned or borrowed by your parents.</p>
<p>Try using the college search tool here on CC with all of your data. [College</a> Search - College Confidential](<a href=“http://www.collegeconfidential.com/college_search/]College”>http://www.collegeconfidential.com/college_search/)
Be sure to expand the number of results at the top (20 by default) and be sure to select “must have” for any important criteria, otherwise it may come up with some odd matches.
What’s good about this site is that it compares your GPA and test scores against the reported ones for the schools and tries to guess the “fit”. It represents the fit as percentage and when you click on the “why?” underneath the fit number it shows you how you compare.</p>
<p>You’re a senior and it’s late in the app season. If you were a soph or jr and just coming up with schools to consider, then maybe not considering money is ok. But, unless your parents will pay all costs, then ignoring the financial aspect this late in the season is VERY unwise.</p>
<p>You may be thinking that you can borrow whatever you need. WRONG.</p>
<p>YOU can only borrow the following amounts:</p>
<p>frosh $5,500
soph 6500
jr 7500
sr 7500</p>
<p>As you can see, those amounts won’t go far…certainly will not pay for a private school or even a “sleep away” instate public. </p>
<p>More to the point, your stats won’t get you admitted to the schools that give the best aid. So, the amount that your family will pay along with a 5500 student loan will largely determine where you should apply and where you’ll be able to afford to attend.</p>
<p>So…since it’s late in the app season, AND submitting apps takes lots of time and money, it makes no sense to be considering schools that will not work. </p>
<p>Certainly you don’t want a handful of unaffordable acceptances this spring…do you???</p>
<p>OP, just say that your parents have the cash and are ready and willing to pay, and very well meaning people will stop hounding you. Otherwise, money IS an obstacle. It is for most people. </p>
<p>Does your school give you access to Naviance? If it does, you can get a clear idea of what your chances are at each school. I can look at the Naviance for our Massachusetts HS to give you an idea. A reach is <40%, a match is 40-90%, and safety means nobody got rejected with stats like yours. </p>
<p>Quinnipiac - match
TCNJ - insufficient data
Rutgers NB - irrelevant data (OOS for us)
Seton Hall (honors program) - insufficient data in your range, but nobody got rejected
(Sent)Arcadia - insufficient data
Wagner - safety
Babson - not even close, fogetaboutit.
Syracuse - reach but some got in
American - reach, very little data near your stats, and the data that’s there are all rejections
Maryland Baltimore County - insufficient data
Fordham - lots of data, nobody got in with stats near you
(Sent)Hofstra - nobody who applied had a GPA that low, but everybody got in, including people with lower SAT and GPA in the 2.8 range. I’d say match.
(Sent)St.Johns - several people got in with worse GPA, many with worse SATs. Nobody got rejected
Marist - match</p>
<p>Some suggestions (I’ll give you places with lots of data, but remember we’re in New England)
Bryant University - match
Drexel - minimal data, but everyone got in, even with lower SAT and same GPA
Fairleigh Dickinson - minimal data, but everyone got in, and everyone was in your range
University of Hartford - EVERYONE gets in - I should tell the guy on the other post.
Johnson and Wales - Everyone gets in with 2.0+
UMASS-Amherst - you’re on the hairy edge of definite in and definite reject. They want full pay OOS, so you may have a shot. Not surprisingly the most applied to school in the database.
UMASS-Boston - Safety.
Merrimack College - match
Pace - seems like everyone gets in
University of Rhode Island - match
Sacred Heart - safety
Suffolk University -safety
Wheaton College (MA) - match</p>
<p>Thanks for all of the responses! With regard to the cost of these schools, I really meant that money is not an issue. My father worked countless hours a week all through highschool and college to afford his education and he has done very well for himself, thus the cost of attendance etc will be covered by my parents, the issue has been discussed ad nauseum. I didn’t want to get into the specifics because I just didn’t think it was necessary on a public forum, but I can assure you that the issue is not being ignored. I appreciate your looking out for me.</p>
<p>I would also like to note that I was we’ll aware that a few of the aforementioned schools (Fordham, Babson) were frankly not going to happen!</p>
<p>I have looked at my schools naviance data, but my highschool is only about 8 years young so the data is slim. I’m currently woking to gain access to the data for the cross town highschool that is far more established.</p>
<p>I welcome any more school suggestions and I would be curious to see what you would have to say for my chances at the Oxford of Emory campus. I would likely apply Early Decision II if I see fit.</p>
<p>Again I can’t thank all of you enough for your help!</p>
<p>California is really too far, it took months of back and forth to come to the conclusion that I would be okay in Atlanta/Georgia. Ideally I would like to be about a 1-5 hour drive away. NY, PA, DC</p>
<p>How about a SUNY or CUNY schools, OOS tuition is like 20k a year. Idk if.they have finance but Lehman is worth looking at with your stats, also SUNY old westbury ( safety) as well as SUNY cortland.</p>