college suggestions for 3.3 GPA

[Anonymous]

Beloit

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Anonymous wrote:What is your budget for college? Can you afford full pay at a private? Will you qualify for substantial financial aid?

Are you and she open to any school anywhere, or are you interested only in certain regions of the country?

What state are you in?

Need this info to make reasonable suggestions.

Yes - we can afford full pay at a private. Unless we hit a major 1929-like depression, we will qualify for zero financial aid.

She may be interested in attending school from VA up to ME as we both have family scattered there and are most familiar with the areas but not the colleges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Beloit

Never heard of it. Tell me about it.

[Anonymous]

There are some very good regional schools in Pennsylvania that will look hard at a good student from out of this region. Schools like Bucknell, Lafayette, Lehigh are fantastic but most students are from NY/NJ/CT/PA. If you are from another region, it's easier to get in.

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Anonymous wrote:There are some very good regional schools in Pennsylvania that will look hard at a good student from out of this region. Schools like Bucknell, Lafayette, Lehigh are fantastic but most students are from NY/NJ/CT/PA. If you are from another region, it's easier to get in.

Dickinson, too, maybe???

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Anonymous wrote:There are some very good regional schools in Pennsylvania that will look hard at a good student from out of this region. Schools like Bucknell, Lafayette, Lehigh are fantastic but most students are from NY/NJ/CT/PA. If you are from another region, it's easier to get in.

There's no way a kid with a 3.3 and sub 1800 SAT is getting into Bucknell, Lafayette, or Lehigh, especially from the DMV area.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are some very good regional schools in Pennsylvania that will look hard at a good student from out of this region. Schools like Bucknell, Lafayette, Lehigh are fantastic but most students are from NY/NJ/CT/PA. If you are from another region, it's easier to get in.

There's no way a kid with a 3.3 and sub 1800 SAT is getting into Bucknell, Lafayette, or Lehigh, especially from the DMV area.

It sounds like she is out west of the Mississippi - stated that in a post.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are some very good regional schools in Pennsylvania that will look hard at a good student from out of this region. Schools like Bucknell, Lafayette, Lehigh are fantastic but most students are from NY/NJ/CT/PA. If you are from another region, it's easier to get in.

There's no way a kid with a 3.3 and sub 1800 SAT is getting into Bucknell, Lafayette, or Lehigh, especially from the DMV area.

Dickinson, either. I'd look at Colleges that Change Lives for a good starter list.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are some very good regional schools in Pennsylvania that will look hard at a good student from out of this region. Schools like Bucknell, Lafayette, Lehigh are fantastic but most students are from NY/NJ/CT/PA. If you are from another region, it's easier to get in.

There's no way a kid with a 3.3 and sub 1800 SAT is getting into Bucknell, Lafayette, or Lehigh, especially from the DMV area.

It sounds like she is out west of the Mississippi - stated that in a post.

We'll either way, 'geographic diversity' is not going to allow someone to be admitted to a school if their stats are well below the 25 percentile mark.

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Is that the weighted GPA?

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Anonymous wrote:Is that the weighted GPA?

GPA is unweighted.

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Anonymous wrote:SAT or ACT scores will matter.

If you're in VA, your kid will have much better out of state options versus in state options. I'd check out USN&WR ranked universities from about #65. From this years experience, I'd say you kid would not get into Va colleges better ranked than GMU or VCU and not Penn State, Pitt, Clemson, Georgia, UDel. So I'd look just beyond those schools in the rankings or apply to some of these as reachy.

Agreed. Plus # of AP courses, type of school etc. Getting an unweighted 3.4 with a lot of APs from a tough private with a 2250 SAT is very different than getting a 3.4 with few APs from a middling public school with 1650 on the SATs.

GMU minimum out of Langley was a 3.56 a few years back.

Is that a 3.56 weighted?

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Does Langley calculate an unweighted GPA?

[Anonymous]

You earlier Va posters know your stuff. So glad to hear the recommendation for looking out of state for best results.

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What about the Midwest? Ohio University?