If my junior is ending the year with a few Cs...what colleges should he be looking at

[Anonymous]

Don't listen to the people here who have no idea what they are talking about.

My kid had same stats and got into st. Mary's, elon, st Joe's, pitt, jmu, college of Charleston, unc Willington, unc Ashville, and got meritat several of them.

Relax, your kid is going to be successful in his college search and without the stress all the other people who think their kid is a top tier kid

[Anonymous]

ODU, Radford, High Point, Longwood, West VA U, Virginia or WV Wesleyan, Salisbury, Frostburg, UMBC, St Mary’s.

[Anonymous]

Step 1: don't use DCUM as your primary source of info for college searches.

Step 2: Check out the Fiske book or an online college search like Big Future from College Board and play around with variables to find some possibilities. Once you have those, you can check with Naviance to see the ranges from your school as a guideline.

There are plenty of options out there. If he knows what he is looking for (location, setting, programs, size, etc) it will be even easier to narrow down the search. Some great ideas already suggested, I'll add RIT to the list. Good luck and don't stress!

[Anonymous]

If NY is of interest, OP/PP son's will get into Hofstra with money (Zarb is an incredible biz school), Pace University also great money, and their internship/co-op placement is their strength. Both 25k merit per year. Adelphi is another.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My junior is going to have a few Cs this year. It is what it is. Hardworking kid in AP classes, rough year due to a variety of circumstances. He will have around a 3.4 or 3.5 weighted GPA. ACT score pending, but practice was a 29.

What 4 year schools should he be looking at that can look past a few bad grades in a craptastic year? Anywhere along the east coast, and any price point is fine.

If you're saying that your son would be full pay, I think that means most schools ranked below the top 100 will be thrilled to have him, and he'll probably have about a 30 percent chance of getting into any given private school ranked about 40 to 100.

[Anonymous]

A few more ideas

Trinity
Connecticut college
Providence
Gettysburg
Bucknell
Rollins
U Mass
BU
Does he ski? U of Utah
St Thomas
Catholic U
AU
GW

If you’re full pay you likely can pay to hire an outside consultant I think that will expand your ideas

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A few more ideas

Trinity
Connecticut college
Providence
Gettysburg
Bucknell
Rollins
U Mass
BU
Does he ski? U of Utah
St Thomas
Catholic U
AU
GW

If you’re full pay you likely can pay to hire an outside consultant I think that will expand your ideas

I think this poster is still living in 1994, although advice about getting a consultant is solid. There are plenty of options for OP’s son, but not BU, UMASS, Providence or even the lower NESCACs.

OP, he may have better luck outside of this region:

Dayton
Xavier
Bradley
UT Dallas
Tampa
Roger Williams (RI)
URI
UNC Wilmington

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My junior is going to have a few Cs this year. It is what it is. Hardworking kid in AP classes, rough year due to a variety of circumstances. He will have around a 3.4 or 3.5 weighted GPA. ACT score pending, but practice was a 29.

What 4 year schools should he be looking at that can look past a few bad grades in a craptastic year? Anywhere along the east coast, and any price point is fine.

You could be describing my kid. Junior year. Lots of AP classes, very strong until this year, but now likely two Cs.

First of all, please know there is at least one other family out there dealing with this. When you're lying awake at night worried, so am I. And please don't listen to the trolls on this board. Not every kid "thrived" in DL and our kids didn't stumble because they are lazy or we weren't involved enough. Schools weren't "handing out As" this year. Eff people who keep saying these things.

Now, the good news. There are a ton of four-year colleges that will take our kids. Good ones, even. They don't have the cachet that the snobby side of DCUM likes, but they are great schools. My son is currently looking at VCU, JMU, GMU and CNU in Virginia. My son is also looking at Penn State, Pitt and U Del out of state. He's even going to shoot his shot at VT because one area of study he is considering is super specific and not very popular on the east coast. They might take him just to fill out the program.

We have also planted the idea of two years of community college to him, then a guaranteed transfer to VT or UVA, in case he doesn't get in anywhere he'll be happy to go. We don't want him to feel like he's "settled" for anything or is being punished for working his butt off during incredibly tough conditions.

It'll be fine. It'll be fine. In a year and a half, we are going to be sending both our kids off to wonderful schools where they will embark on new adventures with a clean slate and this craptastic year will just be a bad memory.

Hear, hear! I don’t know where people got the handing out As rumor from. Perplexing. My kid is working her butt off for her grades, and they aren’t all As!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A few more ideas

Trinity
Connecticut college
Providence
Gettysburg
Bucknell
Rollins
U Mass
BU
Does he ski? U of Utah
St Thomas
Catholic U
AU
GW

If you’re full pay you likely can pay to hire an outside consultant I think that will expand your ideas

I think this poster is still living in 1994, although advice about getting a consultant is solid. There are plenty of options for OP’s son, but not BU, UMASS, Providence or even the lower NESCACs.

OP, he may have better luck outside of this region:

Dayton
Xavier
Bradley
UT Dallas
Tampa
Roger Williams (RI)
URI
UNC Wilmington

Bucknell or GW. Those would be reaches.

[Anonymous]

George Mason.

[Anonymous]

My son graduated last year ('20) with similar GPA. His ACT was 30 and SAT was 1310.
He had some pretty unique ECs (unique enough that I don't want to post here) and was an Eagle Scout.

Just FYI was rejected at JMU and Christopher Newport, accepted at Longwood

He was accepted at several out of state "large flagship" schools that have very high acceptance rates (80+%) and was also awarded large scholarships from them, making the out of state tuition not so bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son graduated last year ('20) with similar GPA. His ACT was 30 and SAT was 1310.
He had some pretty unique ECs (unique enough that I don't want to post here) and was an Eagle Scout.

Just FYI was rejected at JMU and Christopher Newport, accepted at Longwood

He was accepted at several out of state "large flagship" schools that have very high acceptance rates (80+%) and was also awarded large scholarships from them, making the out of state tuition not so bad.

Which ones?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son graduated last year ('20) with similar GPA. His ACT was 30 and SAT was 1310.
He had some pretty unique ECs (unique enough that I don't want to post here) and was an Eagle Scout.

Just FYI was rejected at JMU and Christopher Newport, accepted at Longwood

He was accepted at several out of state "large flagship" schools that have very high acceptance rates (80+%) and was also awarded large scholarships from them, making the out of state tuition not so bad.

Which ones?

University of Alabama
West Virginia University

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son graduated last year ('20) with similar GPA. His ACT was 30 and SAT was 1310.
He had some pretty unique ECs (unique enough that I don't want to post here) and was an Eagle Scout.

Just FYI was rejected at JMU and Christopher Newport, accepted at Longwood

He was accepted at several out of state "large flagship" schools that have very high acceptance rates (80+%) and was also awarded large scholarships from them, making the out of state tuition not so bad.

Which ones?

University of Alabama
West Virginia University

WVU is a great option for kids in this area! Thanks for mentioning it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son graduated last year ('20) with similar GPA. His ACT was 30 and SAT was 1310.
He had some pretty unique ECs (unique enough that I don't want to post here) and was an Eagle Scout.

Just FYI was rejected at JMU and Christopher Newport, accepted at Longwood

He was accepted at several out of state "large flagship" schools that have very high acceptance rates (80+%) and was also awarded large scholarships from them, making the out of state tuition not so bad.

Which ones?

University of Alabama
West Virginia University

WVU is a great option for kids in this area! Thanks for mentioning it.

The amount of money they were willing to give made it comparable in price to in-state (VA) schools!