<p>I am not the most qualified student, I'll admit. My grades are good (around 90) but my SAT score (highest) is just at 1000. (out of 1600) I've been rejected so far to 2 of the easiest schools I've applied for. The rest are private colleges and 1 hard to get into public. Actually, there is 1 school that I could get into. It's a feeder commuter school. For me, it's terrible. There is no social life there whatsoever. People don't care if you exist there. I was really looking foward to gettin' out a bit. To dorm. Experience the whole college experience. Party, whatnot. To get away from home. I don't want to live here the rest of my life like all my friends don't mind doing. I can't. I've seen it all. I've been here too long. I don't have a social life now. I'm seriously breaking down. If I have 4 more years of this...I don't know what to do. I might just run away somewhere else and skip College. I can't take this anymore. </p>
<p>I know I only got 2 rejection letters so far. I know it's a bit early to say "I wont get in anywhere", but I just want to prepare myself. I wana know if there is anything I could do. Would a letter have any chance of them appealing a decision? Would an essay help? Poem? Calling the school? ect.</p>
<p>One year of a community college isnt that bad as long as you study you ass off you'll be fine. You will also be saving money and by not attending college away your first two years you really arent missing out that much and it isnt near as big of a deal as it may seem now. Go with the flow and just work hard and everything will go good in college.</p>
<p>take a year off, do something really interesting for 3 months, service for 3 months, and then, study for the SATs, write an amazing essay, and reapply. Who said taking a gap year was bad??? Also, look at taking the ACTs</p>
<p>There are a lot of good schools on weenie's list. You can refresh your essays and send them to these schools. These are some of the schools(there are a lot more)</p>
<p>Temple University (PA) 4/1
University of Arizona 4/1
University of Calgary 4/1
University of Houston 4/1
University of Iowa 4/1
University of Kansas 4/1
University of Oklahoma 4/1
University of Utah 4/1
Louisiana State U.--Baton Rouge 4/15
Berea College (KY) 4/30
Clemson University (SC) 5/1
Kent State University (OH) 5/1
Texas Tech University 5/1
University of Central Florida 5/1
University of Hawaii--Manoa 5/1
Univ. of Nebraska--Lincoln 5/1</p>
<p>Learn from your experience! Uninspired grades, scores, and applications are not getting you where you want to go. So whether it's applying to another school this yr, going to community college for a yr, or taking a gap yr -- invest more effort into reaching your goal. Obviously, you're taking a good step in consulting CC - keep going . . . .</p>
<p>Sounds like you want to go to college to party and have a good time. If that's what inspires you, get a job and move away from home to the location of your choice and then party all you want while also supporting yourself. Then, you won't even have to worry about things like campus rules, homework and boring classes.</p>
<p>you might get better advice if you list the schools you've applied to. Its an anonymous forum, nobody will know who you are but they may have some info about the difficulty of getting accepted into the schools you list. Its quite common for HS students to be too optimistic about their chances for admission; all their friends are saying "you're a shoo-in!!" and they start to believe the hype. So its possible your choice of "easy" schools weren't that easy after all. </p>
<p>For next steps, take a look at the US News article titled "A+ options for B kids" at <a href="http://tinyurl.com/djtnm%5B/url%5D">http://tinyurl.com/djtnm</a> Also take some time to reflect on what you did to make yourself the best candidate you could be. Did you get a SAT practice book and spend some time working with it? You probably could have improve your score by 100 pts or more which would make you a stronger candidate.</p>
<p>If worst comes to worst, you could take a gap year rather than going to a school you detest. And you could retake the SAT to raise your scores.</p>
<p>one thing that is going to cause you problems at this point is financial aid -- will you parents be paying full fare, or will you need aid? It will make a difference in recommendations.</p>
<p>What state are you in? Many states have some decent lower tier schools that would be glad to have you -- they may not be your top pick, but they are not the local commuter school, either.</p>
<p>The issue isn't whether you can get into a school at this point -- you can and without alot of trouble -- but how are you going to pay and where are you willing to go.</p>
<p>I know a couple of small private schools on the East coast that take applicants with SATs like yours, assuming your recs, ECs are decent. My neighbor's child got into 2 of them. I do not want to post the names but you can PM me if you want. Costs started at $27K and went up from there. Have you tried the smallest public univ in your state?</p>
<p>I just used collegeboard and came up with 24 schools in the country that admit ALL who apply. Maybe a few would interest, your search might yield even more results.</p>
<p>I vote against community college unless you only want a two-year degree or money is a big issue. It will offer you nothing that you want from the college experience. Ditto for most commuter schools.</p>
<p>Many, many schools will be happy to take you and your money. I would guess that 75% of the four-year schools out there would take you.</p>
<p>This board is a bit focused on the upper-tier schools, so that's why people will tell someone with average SATs and an B+/A- average to go to a community college. </p>
<p>Think "mid-majors" like the schools in the Missouri Valley Conf, the MAC, etc. The state schools with 10-15,000 kids. You should find the student profiles in the SAT/ACT guides and find one that fits you. Just because two rejected you doesn't mean anything. I teach at one such university, and I'd say my average student probably had a 1000 SAT and a B average.</p>
<p>While you need to focus on more than partying, you can turn your desire to get out of current surroundings into a powerful force for moving your life forward. I did.</p>
<p>Give us a little more geographical info if you want more help.</p>
<p>"This board is a bit focused on the upper-tier schools, so that's why people will tell someone with average SATs and an B+/A- average to go to a community college."</p>
<p>lol thats so true, well put for most posts!</p>
<p>The idea of a small public university in your state is an excellent one, especially if it has application deadlines that are still in April or May. The dollars are right (relatively inexpensive) and they offer a range of majors (business, liberal arts, and other pre-professional type training such as nursing, criminal justice, etc.) For instance, if you are a Texas resident there are several small state universities in the 8,000 to 10,000 student range with SAT entrance scores of around 1000 out of 1600. Examples are Tarleton State University, San Angelo State University, and West Texas A&M University. The smaller state universities pride themselves on providing a student friendly, don't-get-lost-in-the-crowd environment. As another example, a number of smaller state universities in Pennsylvania fit the bill l (though their SAT average entrance scores may be more in the 1100 range but still doable for you). You still have plenty of options.</p>
<p>Only you can answer this one, but if you and your parents can afford to send you away to college (public or private), I think your instincts to test your wings away from the nest are good ones - i.e., you will stretch (get yourself up, do your own laundry, etc.), sometimes stumble (too much partying equals low grades), and inevitably grow in your maturity as a person with increasing adult responsibilities.</p>
<p>The same thing happened to me last year. I got rejected from all the schools I applied that i wanted to go to. So, I defered at the two schools I did get accepted to and took a year off. I got a job, did some community service, taught at my old high school, redid that SATs and the ACT and applied to some of the schools again and some more schools. I would definately recommend doing what I did. Many people will tell you its a mistake and you wont want to go back, but in fact, at least for me, it was the exact opposite.</p>
<p>At first working full time may seem liberating, but after the first two weeks or so, its sucks. You work for someone else and on thier schedule... this has made me anxious to go back to school. Plus some real world experience is a good thing before college... you'll have a better perspoective of the real world once you're out of college and will have leg up on your peers. </p>
<p>My advice would be to take the year off and explore your options. Get a job, travel (something I wish I could have done... just didnt have the time nor the money), do some community service and whatever and apply to colleges next year. Maybe the maturity taking a year off demonstrates will help you in the application process or retake the SATs and ACT to improve your chances. At least that's what I thought and did and I'll find out if it paid off in 2 weeks.</p>