Are there truly safety schools for every student?

[Anonymous]

Community college where the child can demonstrate effort and ability, enabling a transfer to a 4-year college afterwards. Inexpensive, effective. If grades are poor in community college, maybe still achieve an Associate's Degree and recognize that further spending on higher education may not be wise. The trades or the military may be a more suitable path towards independence and achievement in such circumstances.

[Anonymous]

University of Maine has a 93% acceptance rate. Although only a small % of its students have a gpa below 2.5, it’s worth checking. If admitted and you live in one of the 11 states covered by the Maine Commitment, you only pay your home state tuition. Pennsylvania and New Jersey are two of those stat

[Anonymous]

Radford’s acceptance rate is actually lower than Longwood and UNC-G

[Anonymous]

There are some solid certifications you can get through community colleges. I want my daughter to get the full college experience, but we likely would be better off having her just go to NVCC for the PTA program.

[Anonymous]

Towson isn't necessarily a safety for everyone. I know someone who was heartbroken to be turned down there. She went to Frostburg for a year, was miserable and dropped out of college.

I suspect if your son had enough AP credits, community college may have been a limited option. Sometimes there are kids who can do AP work because they're very bright, but they are disorganized or not good at following through with the assignments and readings that school requires. They have low gpa but can handle the challenge of college and sometimes even bloom with the increased autonomy.

OP, if you could share some of the schools where your child applied and especially those where he was accepted, it might be helpful to other parents who find this thread down the line.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Towson isn't necessarily a safety for everyone. I know someone who was heartbroken to be turned down there. She went to Frostburg for a year, was miserable and dropped out of college.

Never said Towson was a safety for everyone. I said it was a safety for my kid who didn't get into UMD. For my other kid, UMD was his safety when he didn't get into Georgia Tech. See how that works? One kid's stretch is another kid's safety.

[Anonymous]

I am sure the guidance counselor can help find "match" safeties for every student. I would also seriously think long and hard about sending a student with low grades to a 4 year school. Many in our neighborhood send their kids to schools like Old Miss and Alabama and they are home in a year. It is an expensive lesson to learn.

[Anonymous]

CC OP. Safeties foreveryone.

[Anonymous]

"From what I could tell, there are no 4-yr colleges where that GPA is at the 75th percentile for the enrolled students (from the CDS)."

Obviously CCs are a safety for this GPA. But which 4-yr schools exist that meet this criteria?

[Anonymous]

It matters if the GPA at the 75th percentile is Accepted Students or Enrolled Students. If you're really going to look at this stuff, look at The Common Data Set and make know what you ares comparing. Pretty-good students have lots of varied reasons for enrolling at a particular college. There's distance from home, legacy, scholarships, close to work. It may not be the highest rank school that accepted them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Towson isn't necessarily a safety for everyone. I know someone who was heartbroken to be turned down there. She went to Frostburg for a year, was miserable and dropped out of college.

Never said Towson was a safety for everyone. I said it was a safety for my kid who didn't get into UMD. For my other kid, UMD was his safety when he didn't get into Georgia Tech. See how that works? One kid's stretch is another kid's safety.

No one said you said Towson is a safety for everyone.

See how that works? No projection of your nastiness..

[Anonymous]

Does it help your admission at these safeties if you are full pay?