Easiest Brand Name College/University to Get Into?
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I'm not concerned about Wal-Mart nation. I'm concerned about solid schools that will get my kids into good graduate or professional programs. |
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| FCPS students can always get in to a higher-ranked college out-of-state UVA/William&Mary = competitive for Ivy's, JMU/VT = competitive other elites. Even on the other end, Nova CC = competitive for most other state U's. There may be financial reasons to send your FCPS to a Va college, and some choices may be the best fit. Too often, however, the FCPS student w/multiple APs but middle-of-the-pack GPA ends up at a less-than-stellar instate school far below their ability. They are resentful, as they should be. |
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| University of Wisconsin is a great school for a normal A student. |
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If "Brand Name" means name recognition by the "average" American," just look at the college football rankings. Most of those schools have big time brand recognition and many aren't too difficult to get into.
If "brand recognition" means name recognition by a future employer, it really depends on what profession and what geographic location you are planning on. In this area, Maryland, Delaware, Penn State and Virginia Tech all have good brand recognition and strong alumni networks. |
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| Maryland hasn't been "easy to get into" for some time, regardless of how crappy it's football team is, |
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| DD has a friend accepted at Princeton (et. al.) but who will be enrolling at UVA. Parents and student are both excited. It's not always about the brass ring. |
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I knew a high school senior who turned down Brown for U.Va last year after attending a program for admitted students and finding that he just didn't click with the other students admitted to Brown. But turning down Princeton for U.Va. strikes me as odd. Hopefully the parents will save some money on tuition. |
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PP, the University of Chicago is spectacular on a million different levels. But it's always been disproportionally easy to get in. That may be because it's known to be a "harder" school, and also because it's on a trimester system, so effectively there's a great deal more work than there is at comparably-ranked major research universities. If you add the course-count for Chicago's Common Core courses to required basic foreign language proficiency and the courses required for a declared major, something like 2/3 of the courses are required, so there's little opportunity to mess around looking for easy electives. So Chicago exhibits a greater element of self-selection among applicants than HYP, for example. That said, the acceptance % has dropped every year for the past several. Is Chicago "easy" to get in to? No, never. But it's a bit easier than a few comparables. |
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Actually, the acceptance rate at Chicago this year was about 9 %, so it's easier to get into than Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT and Stanford. |
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Maryland's admit rate is 44% which is a bit lower than its peer schools in the USNWS rankings Syracuse (49%) Pitt (58%) UCONN (47%) and Georgia (63%) Penn State is ranked considerably higher, but has a 52% admit rate. None of these schools are "easy" to get into, but they haven't hit the selective level. Decide for yourself which "brand" is best. |
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Acceptance rate is not an especially meaningful indication of selectivity because it tells you more about how many applied than what it took to get in. The DOE publishes information as to the average SAT and ACT component scores of admitted students. You can search by lowest 25% or highest 25%. If you are looking for the “easiest” school to get into, you’d look at lowest 25% - which points to the lowest score that gives you a chance to get in.
http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/mastervariablelist.aspx?stepId=2 The website is not user friendly when it comes to comparing a broad range of schools, but play around enough and you’ll notice that HYP are NOT the most difficult schools to get into – schools like Cal Tech, Washington University and Harvey Mudd require higher scores. It would be nice to see an overall SAT ranking – the site linked does it by each STA component. |
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The website does allow you to sort by bottom 25% composite ACT score, which tells you which schools are the most difficult to squeeze into. Here is the top part of that list: (apologies if the format is messed up)
http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/Ranking.aspx?hfSelectedIds=10651|11||| California Institute of Technology Pasadena CA Harvey Mudd College Claremont CA Yale University New Haven CT University of Notre Dame Notre Dame IN Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge MA Washington University in St Louis Saint Louis MO Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Needham MA Princeton University Princeton NJ Harvard University Cambridge MA University of Chicago Chicago IL Northwestern University Evanston IL Pomona College Claremont CA Columbia University in the City of New York New York NY Vanderbilt University Nashville TN Rice University Houston TX Middlebury College Middlebury VT Stanford University Stanford CA Colgate University Hamilton NY Vassar College Poughkeepsie NY Duke University Durham NC Haverford College Haverford PA University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA Swarthmore College Swarthmore PA Emory University Atlanta GA Wesleyan University Middletown CT Georgetown University Washington DC Tufts University Medford MA Amherst College Amherst MA Bowdoin College Brunswick ME Dartmouth College Hanover NH Williams College Williamstown MA University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor MI Carleton College Northfield MN Johns Hopkins University Baltimore MD Tulane University of Louisiana New Orleans LA Boston College Chestnut Hill MA Wellesley College Wellesley MA Scripps College Claremont CA University of Southern California Los Angeles CA Claremont McKenna College Claremont CA Brown University Providence RI Reed College Portland OR Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh PA Davidson College Davidson NC Jewish Theological Seminary of America New York NY Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art New York NY Cornell University Ithaca NY New York University New York NY Washington and Lee University Lexington VA Whitman College Walla Walla WA University of Richmond University of Richmond VA University of Virginia-Main Campus Charlottesville VA College of William and Mary Williamsburg VA University of Rochester Rochester NY Barnard College New York NY Hamilton College Clinton NY Case Western Reserve University Cleveland OH Kenyon College Gambier OH Oberlin College Oberlin OH Villanova University Villanova PA Lehigh University Bethlehem PA United States Air Force Academy USAFA CO University of Miami Coral Gables FL Northeastern University Boston MA Brandeis University Waltham MA Colby College Waterville ME Grinnell College Grinnell IA Macalester College Saint Paul MN St Olaf College Northfield MN Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Terre Haute IN Babson College Wellesley MA Colorado School of Mines Golden CO George Washington University Washington DC Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus Atlanta GA Wheaton College Wheaton IL Occidental College Los Angeles CA University of California-Berkeley Berkeley CA Hendrix College Conway AR Gettysburg College Gettysburg PA Bucknell University Lewisburg PA Dickinson College Carlisle PA Willamette University Salem OR Lewis & Clark College Portland OR Denison University Granville OH University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill NC SUNY at Geneseo Geneseo NY Southern Methodist University Dallas TX New College of Florida Sarasota FL University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison WI Rhodes College Memphis TN Sewanee-The University of the South Sewanee TN Trinity University San Antonio TX Brigham Young University-Provo Provo UT University of Puget Sound Tacoma WA SUNY at Binghamton Vestal NY Skidmore College Saratoga Springs NY Polytechnic Institute of New York University Brooklyn NY Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy NY Fordham University Bronx NY Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr PA Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus OH Lafayette College Easton PA Clemson University Clemson SC Furman University Greenville SC Santa Clara University Santa Clara CA University of San Diego San Diego CA University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Champaign IL American University Washington DC Trinity College Hartford CT Boston University Boston MA Centre College Danville KY Drake University Des Moines IA Emerson College Boston MA Bentley University Waltham MA St John's College Annapolis MD Hampshire College Amherst MA Stonehill College Easton MA Loyola University Maryland Baltimore MD University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis MN Gustavus Adolphus College Saint Peter MN Kalamazoo College Kalamazoo MI Truman State University Kirksville MO Saint Louis University-Main Campus Saint Louis MO St Louis College of Pharmacy Saint Louis MO Missouri University of Science and Technology Rolla MO University of Connecticut Storrs CT United States Coast Guard Academy New London CT University of Denver Denver CO Florida State University Tallahassee FL Illinois Wesleyan University Bloomington IL Loyola University-Chicago Chicago IL Butler University Indianapolis IN University of Georgia Athens GA Thomas Aquinas College Santa Paula CA University of California-San Diego La Jolla CA University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles CA California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo CA Grove City College Grove City PA Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park PA University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus Pittsburgh PA Muhlenberg College Allentown PA Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester NY Stony Brook University Stony Brook NY United States Military Academy West Point NY Elon University Elon NC The University of Texas at Austin Austin TX The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson TX Southwestern University Georgetown TX Beloit College Beloit WI Marquette University Milwaukee WI Milwaukee School of Engineering Milwaukee WI Purdue University-Main Campus West Lafayette IN University of St Thomas Houston TX Baylor University Waco TX University of Dallas Irving TX The University of Tennessee Knoxville TN Austin College Sherman TX South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Rapid City SD Belmont University Nashville TN Texas A & M University-College Station College Station TX Texas Christian University Fort Worth TX University of Vermont Burlington VT Seattle University Seattle WA University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle WA Gonzaga University Spokane WA University of Dayton Dayton OH Cedarville University Cedarville OH Hofstra University Hempstead NY Elmira College Elmira NY Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Albany NY University of South Carolina-Columbia Columbia SC Wofford College Spartanburg SC Rhode Island School of Design Providence RI Ohio Northern University Ada OH Miami University-Oxford Oxford OH The College of Wooster Wooster OH Drexel University Philadelphia PA University of Tulsa Tulsa OK University of California-Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA Auburn University Auburn University AL Chapman University Orange CA Mills College Oakland CA Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles CA University of Colorado Boulder Boulder CO Mercer University Macon GA DePauw University Greencastle IN Earlham College Richmond IN Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago IL University of Florida Gainesville FL Rollins College Winter Park FL University of Delaware Newark DE University of Central Florida Orlando FL Creighton University Omaha NE The College of New Jersey Ewing NJ Kettering University Flint MI Hope College Holland MI Transylvania University Lexington KY University of Massachusetts Amherst Amherst MA University of Maryland-Baltimore County Baltimore MD St Mary's College of Maryland St. Mary's City MD Coe College Cedar Rapids IA Luther College Decorah IA Indiana University-Bloomington Bloomington IN The King’s College New York NY New Saint Andrews College Moscow ID |
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| Thanks for that, PP. |
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| Virginia Tech. |
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Well don't know what you mean by name brand but
Boston University UConn UMass Penn State Indiana all come to mind |