Rising junior in fcps w 3.3 w gpa: what colleges?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Consider some of the schools in the south such as Ole Miss, Mississippi State and possibly Alabama. Maybe Elon, though I think the school is becoming more competitive.if full pay, may be able to squeak in with strong essays. Definitely Mary Washington and Longwood.

Alabama is not happening with those stats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you open to Catholic universities?

Yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Syracuse is a safety for that gpa, bit more than 60k tho

Disagree. Not a safety at all.

[Anonymous]

URI, Maine, UNH

[Anonymous]

Are you kidding me?
Can you google?
Does the kid have a counselor at school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you kidding me?
Can you google?
Does the kid have a counselor at school?

Yeah I can google, and I have. 🙄. The counselor is the typical public school counselor of a high school with 3000 kids in it: not that helpful.

Thought I would use what DCUM is intended to be, a forum of experiences. If you don’t understand that, just go away.

[Anonymous]

If you are open to small and central time zone, consider College of Wooster, Beloit, Lawrence, and Hendrix. Really nice, supportive places, very generous with merit. Hendrix has an official guaranteed flagship match, the others all came in similar ranges for DC. Similar gpa at end of sophomore year.

[Anonymous]

Stevenson, McDaniel, Roanoke, Lynchburg.

We toured Roanoke and loved it; DC wanted something bigger and wound up at JMU.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for posting. I’m also following.

We are going to look at St. Leo in Florida when we visit grandparents. I don’t know much about it but it looks like it could be a good fit for mine from the website.

[Anonymous]

Not to hijack, but I’d love some ideas in the PA/NY area (western and central NY, not NYC.) Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Based on the description of the grades that sounds like a 3.3 UNweighted. If there are little to no honors/APs that would be similar to weighted though. Is that right?

[Anonymous]

Gettysburg and Ursinus could work. (My DS is a rising junior and has similar GPA, very little difference between weighted and UW GPA due to few honors/AP classes). We will be looking at a lot of the schools already mentioned plus these two.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gettysburg and Ursinus could work. (My DS is a rising junior and has similar GPA, very little difference between weighted and UW GPA due to few honors/AP classes). We will be looking at a lot of the schools already mentioned plus these two.

Gettysburg is unlikely with those stats. Not sure why everyone treats it like the ultimate safety. It has less than a 50% acceptance rate and fairly high test score ranges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stevenson, McDaniel, Roanoke, Lynchburg.

We toured Roanoke and loved it; DC wanted something bigger and wound up at JMU.

Check the financial health of schools you apply to. University of Lynchburg has been in the news lately for shutting down programs and terminating faculty and staff as a cost cutting measure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are open to small and central time zone, consider College of Wooster, Beloit, Lawrence, and Hendrix. Really nice, supportive places, very generous with merit. Hendrix has an official guaranteed flagship match, the others all came in similar ranges for DC. Similar gpa at end of sophomore year.

In case it matters, these schools are all known to be woke. It's interesting how LACs in the 60-100 range are the toughest place to find politically balanced choices. If you go up one tier you have several options like Sewanee, Rhodes, Furman, Centre, Gettysburg, etc. But those are all at least low reaches for this student.