<p>Hello, I am a junior in high school looking to find the right college for myself. I am from the East Coast and will be going out to California to tour colleges within the next few months.</p>
<p>I am looking to find which colleges I can get into that meet my needs, so if you could help me that would be GREAT.</p>
<p>Here is my Information:
Highschool- Private Catholic High school
Cumulative GPA- 3.0-3.3 (I HOPE TO HAVE MY GPA IN BETWEEN THIS BY THE END OF JUNIOR YEAR)(Did poorly freshman year, did decent sophomore year, doing GREAT junior year)
Junior Year GPA- 3.2-3.7 <strong><em>NOT CUMULATIVE</em></strong> (Will end the year in between those two)
SAT Scores- 1800
Extra Curricular- Cross Country, Track, Prom Committee, Asian American Club.
Summer Jobs throughout high school- Snack-bar, Lifeguard, Snowball stand.
Over 40 hours of community Service in Junior Year</p>
<p>My main problem was freshman and sophomore year I did not apply myself as much as I should have.</p>
<p>I also have an online Amazon Business, where I buy and sell used computer. I have over $20,000 in sales (Not Profit, but Sales) (I don't know if this could help or not, keep in mind I am only 16).</p>
<p>Now onto my requirements for college.
It has to be in California, Mainly Southern California. I would like to be close to the beach however that is not mandatory. Tuition is not an issue. Private or Public, as long as it is still a good education. Size would preferably be around 5-15 thousand students, However more or less is OKAY. </p>
<p>Thank you for taking the time to help me, and your recommendations would be greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>You may have more luck posting on the “College Search” forum
However, your criteria are VERY limiting, so you should look into more schools, listing
MUST HAVE and WOULD BE NICE criteria.
For example, if you want a college near a beach, how about ODU in Virginia, UNC-Wilmington in North Carolina, Eckerd College, FIT, or Flagler in Florida, Coastal Carolina?
With your current stats, UCLA or USC are out of the question, so look into Whittier, Redlands, SDSU, Chapman, UCSC, Cal State San Marcos, U San Diego (Catholic). If you don’t mind very conservative religious schools with mandatory chapel and Bible Study, check out Pepperdine, Vanguard, or Point Loma</p>
<p>With your stats and being from southern California, I have a list of schools you might want to look into.<br>
Southern Cal
Privates
U of Redlands
Loyola Marymount
U of San Diego
Concordia, Irvine
Chapman</p>
<p>Publics
UC Riverside
Cal State Fullerton
Cal State Long Beach
Cal State Channel Islands
Cal state San Marcos
Cal State Northridge
Cal Poly Pomona
San Diego state</p>
<p>Nor Cal
USF-Private
San Francisco state
Sonoma State
Cal state Chico
Cal State Monterey Bay
San Jose state
Cal state East Bay
Cal Maritime</p>
<p>There are reaches, matches and safeties on the list, but I do not know if they are financial safeties for you. Check them out online and see what majors they have for you to help weed them down to something you can do on your visit. The Cal states are going to be the least expensive for an out of state student and there are 23 of them. I left Cal Poly San Luis Obispo off the list because I think it is going to be to much of a reach, they use your freshman year grades and their average GPA is very high with high SATs. The good news is all the other Cal states and the UCs only use grade 10 and 11 for GPA calculations.</p>
<p>Pepperdine is a great school but I am not sure you are competitive enough. MYOS mentioned Point Loma. The California schools in the great neighborhoods are pretty hard to get into, if you get your GPA and test scores up you will have a much better chance at the more competitive schools. You are doing a good job looking into it early enough to change it.</p>
