St Joe’s University in Philadelphia. Great city location, my kid got in with a 2.5 GPA with $$$ merit aid, I kid you not, and they have a 90% freshman retention rate. Those Jesuits ROCK.

My child is applying now and has a sub-par gpa. We told her she can apply, but her choices are limited and we won’t even entertain paying if she doesn’t show massive improvement/effort this year. She will go to NVCC if things aren’t better.

Schools she is applying to:
ODU
Maybe Radford
Randolph
Shenandoah
Emory & Henry
Slippery Rock (PA)
Dean (MA)
Meredith (NC)
Alma (MI)
Northern Michigan
Maybe SIUe (IL, outside St. Louis)
Lindenwood (MO)

There are a few open admit schools in UT (we investigated Utah Tech) though I don’t know that they are in “cities”

Wichita State is auto admit at 2.25

Easy schools to get into in a city are going to often be heavily commuter schools. You don't want your kid sitting in an empty dorm on the weekend.

Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State.

Is he at all artistically inclined? Film? Photography? Music? Graphic Design? Theater?

If so, Columbia College Chicago is an amazing place. All sorts of misfits, the best possible kind, end up thriving there. It used to be open-admissions, not sure if it still is. And tuition was affordable, for a private school. The campus is in the Loop, great energy for a young person.

Suffolk in Boston.

ODU, Radford, Rowan Univ, WVU, Shephard Univ.

These people saying Drexel, Loyola--=no, no chance.

You do realize you'll be throwing tuition money down the drain, right?

if you're cool with that, look into VCU (not Arts, though), Drexel, Temple, Columbia College Chicago.

Anonymous wrote:Send him to culinary school or get him an internship as a plumber's assistant. He doesn't need college.

Trades could be great if he's willing to put in the work. There is classroom work to becoming a plumber or electrician, a lot to learn.

Ditto Philly schools like Drexel, Temple, St. Joe's.

in Chicago, maybe Loyola Chicago or University of Illinois at Chicago

Also, wouldn't rule out your public Us. You can be in-state and still be "away." In VA, CNU admits over 80% of applications. Same with UMW, ODU (in a city), etc.

How much of a factor is cost? You have a lot more options if you are full pay. And, any preference on size? There are a ton of small schools that accept >70% of apps.

Send him to culinary school or get him an internship as a plumber's assistant. He doesn't need college.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you just need it to be easy to get admitted? Or does the school's program have to also be easy?

And by easy for admissions purposes, do you the actual process needs to be easy, or that their criteria need to be fairly low?

OP here. Low criteria/Easy to get admitted. I'm not convinced yet that his GPA is going to be stellar.

What do you realistically expect his GPA to be? Public or private school?

OP here. Current track that he's on? Possibly 2.5-3.

Arizona State. Rolling admissions and a pretty high acceptance rate.

But if you're worried about them partying too much and not studying this may not be the place for them. Big party school.

If he applies early enough (like august), try Pitt. Second Drexel. What about Temple?

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Anonymous wrote:Do you just need it to be easy to get admitted? Or does the school's program have to also be easy?

And by easy for admissions purposes, do you the actual process needs to be easy, or that their criteria need to be fairly low?

OP here. Low criteria/Easy to get admitted. I'm not convinced yet that his GPA is going to be stellar.

What do you realistically expect his GPA to be? Public or private school?