<p>Foolishpleasure,
My nephew was not recruited at Louisville or UK. Applied the old fashioned way and had a acceptance from Louisville by winter break. When we saw him there, it seemed like Louisville was a done deal (esp. since his GF is going there, too). He was invited to a showcase in January, talked to several schools, and the junior college really wanted him. Louisville and UK said he could walk on if he wanted to, but no hooks there. </p>
<p>The junior college is the only one that gave him $$, and it is an open enrollment school. He should be near the top of the heap academically. They have a good record at transferring kids into mid-major D-I schools, so I think that is his plan.</p>
<p>I have a very SUB 1800 S, who had a 3.6 GPA NO APās, lacking in some academic areas, but a really solid, great kid who started his own business at the age of 14, and a very happy kidā¦, and FYI has been admitted to some very good school , including Northeastern, U Vermont, American, U Mass Amherst , BU General Studies, Babson, U North Carolina, Chapel Hillā¦so much of this admission process is Randomā¦AND the inference that CC ādoesnāt have that many sub 1800 kidsā was ignorant, insensitive and plain stupid!</p>
<p>^^ Congrats!! I am pleasantly surprised that an unhooked student w/ āveryā sub-1800 scores would do so well in the admissions game. Did your son apply this year? Was he an in-state applicant for any of the state unis?</p>
<p>East coast, I do not think the SUNYs in general count the writing component, the 25 percentile at Binghampton for CR/Math is 1200. Binghamton admits OOS with lower stats. It burns me as a NY resident and taxpayer that they do this.</p>
<p>Oh, Iām happy to share some good news on this thread. My D had SAT scores in the mid-to-high 500ās, after much tutoringā(sheās pretty dyslexic). Yet she got into all the small LACs she applied to, including two where the average SAT scores were 100 points higher in each category. No hooks other than geographic diversity, just a range of schools with excellent reputations in the USNAWR, below the top 30 but still terrific. We looked hard, we thought outside the geographic box and now sheās spending spring break revisiting her two favorites! Our college counselors were right: get a certain school out of your head, start with the kid instead. It works.</p>
<p>Acceptances and rejections for D, high school Class of 2008, 1190 SATs (590CR, 600M). Iām discounting the 700 she got in WR because it pretty much told me everything I needed to know about that relatively new (at the time) section:</p>
<p>Accepted: U Del, URI, Ithaca College, Drexel (with $10K merit)</p>
<p>Rejected: Binghamton, FIT, Northeastern</p>
<p>Hope that helps.</p>
<p>Edited to add: high school 2008, not college</p>
<p>kayf, I hear this a lot from my NY friends. Keep in mind that first, I am an alum, and Iāve been told that is a factor; second, her SATs were below 1800, but not by much; and three, she has outstanding ECs, recommendations, and essays. There is no doubt in my mind that she will do well there. Would she have been accepted if we were in-state? Who knows. The in-state tuition for SUNYs is ridiculously low (compare to Rutgers, for example) and with NY State budget cuts to the SUNYs, the money has to come from somewhere to keep the university up and running and keep the tuition so low. Otherwise the in-staters complain about tuition increases. Canāt have it both ways. We are paying full freight for OOS (still a bargain, IMO). The SUNYs NEED the OOS kids to function. If it upsets you, lobby Albany to increase funding. Then watch your taxes go up and/or services cut elsewhere. But donāt blame OOS kids for taking advantage.</p>
<p>I donāt recall the exact amounts of merit aid. I think most were in the 8000-11000 per year range. Northern Arizona might have been more. He had a choice of an OOS scholarship or a tuition exchange.</p>
<p>Eastcoast, I do not blame the OOS kids, I blame the college officials. The OOS tuition is ridiculously low too, and the OOS kids are NOT needed, IMHO. If SUNY wants support for lobbying from the VOTERS, then they should stop with OOS preferences.</p>
<p>Eastcoast, Iām certain your D wll do well at Bing - - as would lots of just-under-1200 in-state kids w/ similar stats (who were rejected in favor of full-freight OOS students). And I donāt blame you or other OOS families for taking advantage of a gread education at a bargain price - -lotās of families go for the bargain (we did, Dās LAC meets 100% of need which put the cost w/i $3K of SUNY). Nor is yours the first family to get an bump in admission by paying full-freight (thereās an entire thread devoted to the topic). </p>
<p>Still, as a tax-payer, I think that, as is the practice with most of the state uni systems - - especially the good ones like NC and VA - - any admissions preference to in-state applicants. And, even tho I donāt have a dog in this fight (a pony in this race?), I would lobby for increasinging both in-state and OOS tuition (even taxes!) in exchange for an in-state preference.</p>
<p>Good luck to your D. </p>
<p>Any other reports on sub-1200/1800 admissions (especially kids, like kayās D, with 3.0-3.3 gpa)?</p>
and had a acceptance from Louisville by winter break. When we saw him there, it seemed like Louisville was a done deal (esp. since his GF is going there, too). He was invited to a showcase in January, talked to several schools, and the junior college really wanted him. Louisville and UK said he could walk on if he wanted to, but no hooks there. </p>