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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone in this area always recommends these small schools I’ve never heard of when a low or mid GPA or test score comes up, but I’d also look at the flagship state schools in the Midwest…Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri and some schools in the south (although some of these southern schools seem to have been “discovered” more recently). They are quite easy to get into and offer such a fun college experience with lifelong friendships, great athletic fan bases and alumni networks, quaint college towns and an education that can compete anywhere. I know bc my husband and I are both graduates of these schools and went on to law school where we outperformed all of the fancy liberal arts students. We landed great jobs here in the DMV where we don’t understand the hand-wringing over college. There are hundreds of colleges and universities in this country, and a prestigious degree doesn’t matter or mean as much as you think. [/quote]

BI parent of a 2028 looking at the school's scatterplots. I would add Indiana except for business, and for non-flagships, Michigan State, Miami of Ohio and U of Pittsburgh. Raise it to a 3.5 and that opens up Penn State outside of engineering and architecture.

In addition to the Catholic schools, the southern universities are also very popular and some of them are a sea of green on BI's scatterplots for anything over a 3.0 (and some go below that). Schools like U of Kentucky, Alabama, Ole Miss, LSU, East Carolina. College of Charleston works for a 3.3.

No need to aim for small schools like Muhlenberg, unless that's what he wants of course.[/quote]

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