<p>Don’t let a B+ average hold you back. My son has a 3.3 unweighted gpa (our high school does not weight). We felt this might prevent him from being accepted to highly rated universities. However, with his decent SAT’s 1370/1600 & 1960/2400, mostly honors classes (2 AP’s) and excellent EC’s he has been receiving all acceptances. I believe admissions offices recalculate gpa’s with consideration for honors/AP classes and the high school’s scholastic reputation. Wishing maybe we shot a little higher…</p>
<p>Accepted @:
University of Miami
Penn State Univ. Park
Ithaca College
Hofstra U (Honors)
George Mason U</p>
<p>@shrinkrap: i applied to Lewis and Clark portfolio path but was deferred. I don’t think i’m going to be attending willamette, though. </p>
<p>thought i would update this thread a little bit.
background:
i’ve got about a 3.2 GPA weighted (so probably 3.0 UW?). 30 ACT. black. single parent. all college courses since junior year (college GPA is currently ~3.2.) </p>
<p>i have an F and D on my transcript, (as well as a few Cs (always in math, lol)) but i have also done post secondary and do a lot of music ECs. i wrote a VERY STRONG essay that was quite odd and quirky. (if you want to read it, just let me know.)</p>
<p>i got deferred at lewis and clark, in at beloit, in at willamette, in at goucher, deferred then rejected at wesleyan (DREAMS CRUSHED!!! lol.)</p>
<p>i haven’t gotten an aid package from goucher yet, 56k at willametta, and 116K AT BELOIT!!! </p>
<p>i really love beloit too, so i’m probably going to attend there as long as the visit in april (travel scholarship!) proves the school to be as magical as i had hoped.</p>
<p>I am not exactly in the 3.0-3.3 range but my ACT I would think drags me a bit towards it.<br>
I have a 2.65, 32 act and have gotten into St. Louis University, U of Mich Dearborn, University of Alabama(H), and Wayne State University. </p>
<p>My younger son took the SATs once, in March of his junior year, and obtained scores of CR 660, M 720, W 580. His GPA at the end of his junior year was 3.05. He did not take the SATs his senior year since he was applying to only one school, California State University Sacramento, and his SAT scores were much higher than the average accepted student at CSUS. Unfortunately, we just found out he was rejected, probably because the CSUs weigh GPA at 65% and SAT scores at 35% for their admission criteria. Our only alternative now is for him to go to the local community college this fall, get him to improve his study habits and get better grades in cc than he did in high school and hope that after 2 to 3 years he can transfer to a four year college and get his degree. He wants to major in Physics and with a Math SAT of 720 I think he can do it but cc is an academic dead end for most students who enroll in one and I am not very hopeful about his future.</p>
<p>My D was forced out of HS after her JR year. She had probably been a B/C student there. She started CC that fall and got great grades & was able to transfer to her dream U. She applied 3 times before she was finally accepted into the major she wanted & will be graduating with her HS peers, many of whom she has reunited with at the dream U.</p>
<p>I’d suggest you not get discouraged. Many great students DO go to CC and then transfer and do fine. Please don’t let your S pick up on your discouragement that he didn’t get into CSUS. My niece in CA also went to several CCs and is now completing her teaching certificate and BA at a local CSU. Her BF also started at CCs and is at another CSU, completing his engineering degree. So much depends on the student and his motivation & support of loved ones.</p>
<p>Good gracious!! You’re not very hopeful about his future because he didn’t get into one college? He has great SAT scores and an ok gpa. He had terrible advising if he only applied to one college-- but that’s the only problem he’s got! His GC may know of a way he can still go to a 4 year school (I’ve seen this happen at the last minute in situations like this). Or he can go to CC and very likely transfer to a state school or university, or even a private, next year. As far as I can see his only problem is that he doesn’t know bad advice when he hears it, and that’s true of many and many an 18 year old.</p>
<p>Lemaitre. Was your son planning to stay at home and commute to college? Was that the reason for applying to one school? Not sure of his circumstances but a few out-of-state schools – University of Arizona and ASU come to mind – have May 1 application deadlines. Maybe there are some state schools in Cali with similar time frames?</p>
<p>He was going to live in an apartment with his older brother who is sophomore majoring in Geology at CSUS. His GC advised us that he would get into CSUS easily, despite his marginal GPA, with the SAT scores he earned while a junior and there was no need to take them again as a senior or take a SAT preparation course. It appears that CSU admissions have become much more competitive in the last year or two and a 3.05 GPA will not cut it no matter what you get on the SATs</p>
<p>Yikes. I find this alarming. My S will be applying to CSUS (among other CSUs) this fall, and up till now I figured he would have no trouble getting in. </p>
<p>So far his GPA is 3.1, but hasn’t yet taken the SAT. However, he did take a full-length practice SAT last month that was scored, and got 510 (M), 550 (CR), 610 (W), which I thought was decent (for him) going in completely cold. Now I’m really worried he is going to struggle with CSU acceptances. (He isn’t even going to attempt the UCs.)</p>
<p>Lamaitre, did your S apply to an impacted program? I assume you are in state?</p>
<p>Looks like my S will be applying to our local cc too…</p>
<p>My son applied as a Physics major which I do not believe is anywhere near impacted at any public university in California. We live in Sacramento County and he is graduating from a high school in Sacramento County which he attended for all four years and had absolutely no disciplinary problems or anything else adverse on his record. However, he did not take any Honors or AP classes until this year. He is currently getting As in AP Physics and Honors Pre-calculus but the CSUs, like the UCs, do not look at senior year grades. I think the problem simply was that when you look at his SAT scores and then look at his GPA you can not help but say this kid is a slacker. He also has ADHD and refuses to take the medication that was prescribed for him and as a result he was terribly disorganized and never did his homework assignments and if he did do them he would forget to turn them in. He did very well on tests, despite spending far more time playing computer video games than studying, but all the zeroes that piled up from missing homework assignments always pulled his grades down to to Cs and Bs.</p>
<p>Lemaitre1: I am absolutely shocked to hear that your S was rejected with his GPA and SAT scores. These seem absolutely in the range for CSUS. I know that things are tough at both the UCs and CSUs, but the CSUs were set up for students such as yours (and mine).</p>
<p>I have no idea how appeals work, but is it worth a call to the school? I also beieve that CSUS does accept students for Spring semester as well. Maybe that is an option?</p>
<p>lemaitre: we have the same child! i learned from this site that there are colleges every year that post openings as late as june/july…google the info on college confidential to access or maybe someone here can remember site…</p>
<p>Lemaitre1; OMG. About Sac State. Not about your son.</p>
<p>FWIW, TOOK the meds since he was almost five, nice for the teachers, but STILL got the same GPA, lesser SAT’s. NO honors or AP’s before senior year.</p>
<p>In at Sonoma State, Chico, Pomona, and Monterrey, but only Chico and Pomona were STEM. 16 apps total. We are in Solano county.</p>
<p>Lemaitre: Check with Sac State to see if they made an error in considering his application. I know of one student who was mistakenly denied this year because of a name problem - they didn’t match up his info properly. He is appealing and will probably be successful.</p>
<p>According to their web site, local students will be admitted if their eligibility index is at least 2900. By my arithmetic, his index is 1380+(800*3.05) = well over 2900. I’m assuming that the 3.05 is his UC/CSU GPA - that is, 10th and 11th grades only, no minuses or pluses, with up to 8 extra points for honors/AP/IB/college courses. He also has to have taken the a-g courses.</p>
<p>If he meets the requirements, he should be in. If they denied him by mistake, it should be fixable if you act quickly.</p>
<p>Edited to add: this assumes you live in the local catchment area for Sac State. If not, the eligibility index must be higher - but his is pretty high. Check it out!</p>
<p>While I am not a parent, I am a student who was within this GPA range (roughly 3.0 unweighted, 3.43 weighted GPA); I applied to Vanderbilt University and was accepted for the class of 2015. My SAT was 2360 (800CR/800M/760W) and I had great recs/ecs/essays.</p>
<p>I think you should really check on this also Lemaitre. The numbers are just not adding up to a rejection. Calreader is correct regarding the index, your son more than met the qualifications. My D had a similar GPA, but her SAT scores were a bit lower and she was offered acceptance and we live in Southern Cal. You might want to take a look at the application on the CSU mentor site to see if something was left off or input correctly. Maybe it would be easier also if the GC called. Whatever the reason, I believe it was a mistake also. I am hoping it is a mistake that can be corrected. I disagree that cc is academically dead for students. I believe that is a misnomer. I know several people who used CC as a stepping stone and went on to UCs and grad schools.</p>
<p>I did investigate why my son was not accepted at CSUS and found that they had him listed as an “international applicant”, even though he has a Sacramento County area address and attends a Sacramento County high school. A check of his application indicated that he had indeed made an error resulting in him being considered a foreign student residing abroad rather than an in-service area California resident.</p>
<p>I feel it is partly my fault for not checking his application before he submitted it but he wanted to handle the application process himself. If he had been applying to a UC where each application is read by an admissions officer it is possible they would have realized their was an inconsistency and maybe notified us and allowed us to amend the application before a decision was made. Unfortunately, CSU applications are all processed by computers which make the decision to admit or not and a computer has no way of suspecting, or even caring about, this type of error in an application.</p>
<p>I doubt this can be appealed since the error was made by the applicant, not CSUS, in this case. Furthermore, my son is so upset and humiliated over this mistake he does not even want to talk about it let alone pursue it further. He has accepted the fact he will be going to community college and in fact has been accepted at and is taking the math placement test at our local CCC today. I realize that only about 15% of students who enroll at a CCC eventually are able to transfer to a UC or CSU but I am hoping he will beat the odds.</p>
<p>I apologize for any anxiety I caused parents who have children applying to CSUs.</p>
<p>Sure seems like it is worth an appeal. It’s such an honest mistake.<br>
Also, there still might be the possibility of applying for spring 2012.</p>
<p>The stats for transferring are quite low, you are correct. However, what I have been told is simply because most CC students don’t truly understand the transfer requirements. Keeping in touch with your ‘goal’ school to ensure requirements are met will help make the transfer successful.</p>