<p>Hi,
I am looking for an east coast college.<br>
my GPA is 3.72 unweighted and 4.11 weighted
My SAT is 1720 or somewhere around there .. i forgot
I kind of started off bad in Freshman year but was able to maintain 4.0 during all other years . They are all explained in my essay and letters of recomendation.
i have been in volleyball team for 2 years, in tennis team for 1 year, community service group for 2 years, am in the student government as vice president. I have GREAT letters of recomendations and am in the NHS , and Whos Who Among American Student, and in Society of High School Scholars. I have a part time job during the school year and a full time job during the summer .
I was thinking about applying to these school but im not sure ill get in:
1. University of Pennsylvania
2. Stony Brook
3. Brown U ??????
4. NYU
5. Polytechnic University
6. Columbia ????????
7. Baruch
8. Hunter
9. Cornell
10. Priceton ??? </p>
<p>Any other suggestions are appreciated ..
Thankss =]</p>
<p>You have an unusual mix of schools there. Some are commuter state schools and then pretty much a jump to the ivies. A more balanced mix would make more sense.
What is the breakdown of your SAT score, what courses have you been taking in highschool (APs), any SAT2 scores, what kind of a highschool do you attend, what are your areas of academic interest? I am guessing you are from NYC since some of choices are commuter schools for there. Are you looking for financial aid, are you URM, first gen college goer? Are you interested in staying in the NYC area?</p>
<p>Yes, those are an unusual mix, because i have no idea what kind of schools I am able to get into. I just double checked my SAT, and it is 1820 (not 1720) is 680 math 550 reading 590 writing.</p>
<p>I have took 3 AP classes including AP US History, AP Physicology, AP Calculus AB. I have took the AP test and passed with a 4 On US History, 3 in Physicology, and a 4 in Calculus AB. I am taking Calculus BC, and am also taking college credit classes at my community college. I like something that deals with bussiness and math and technology, but am not sure. I attend a small high school with about 520 people in the whole high school, and am i think top 10% in my grade. I am not really chosing colleges on their cost, it dosent matter how much a college costs, cause its an investment that you will make later in life.</p>
<p>You'll be able to get into most schools. The exceptions would be the most selective schools which are tough for anyone to get into because of their low accept rate. It isn't so much what kind of school you are able to get into that you should be concerned about as that really does not narrow the field much at all. Do you like small vs large? Do you want to commute, live near home? City, suburb, boonies? Dorm vs apt living. LAC vs university? If you are interested in NYC area schools, you would be competitve at all but Columbia, NYU, for instance. Fordham is a match/reach, Manhattan is a match, St John a match, Hofstra a match, Hofstra a safety, Wagner a safety, Iona a safety, CUNYs a safety, SUNY Stony Brook a match, Manhattanville , a match.</p>
<p>i think you should keep your list, but def add a few safeties...whats the worst that could happen, you get rejected by the ivies....so what???</p>
<p>but then again you might get in...aim high, rather then low, but always have a safety net</p>
<p>the people on this site are all about "sure things" and 100% chance admissions at such and such school, forget that, reach for the stars.</p>
<p>I had a "low" SAT score and was OOS, i applied to UVA, got in, and that is currently where i am writing to you from (everyone here told me to forget it)</p>
<p>Thanks for your responses
I do aim high, and I am going to.
Hopefully I get in a good college...
DOes anyone else have any suggestions?
They are appreciated =]</p>
<p>Since just about every college you mentioned here is in NYC or just a short ways outside (Cornell, Princeton, Brown), my question is do you want to know about schools outside the area or not?. Also, is money a concern?--because there are good schools you could get into, but these will cost a lot more than some of the ones you mentioned already--and some of the ones you mentioned are much more expensive than the others. For example, NYU and Fordham are very expensive and offer very little aid, while Princeton and Cornell are expensive and offer aid, and CUNY-Baruch and Hunter cost almost nothing.</p>
<p>Rather than wait for a reply, let me give a few other colleges you might be able to get into with your grades and SAT score that have great business schools--Purdue, Penn State, Indiana, Oregon, Pittsburgh, Babson, Bentley, Miami of Ohio, Illinois--and maybe Wisconsin, Notre Dame, and Michigan. </p>
<p>I'm not saying you should go to these instead of the ones you mentioned--but these are ones worth considering. You need to realize that many of these schools are in rural or small town areas (the exceptions are Babson and Bentley)--and that it would be a major change from NYC--one you might hate. So consider that fact as well in making your decision.</p>