Anonymous wrote:Look at all your state schools that accept most students. For example, if you are Virginia look at everything that isn't UVA, W&M, VT or JMU. Then filter for best fit: look at size, location, vibes, program of study, etc. Find a few that are possibilities and visit them.

+1 once you have a handle on preferences among your state Us, you can look to private/OOS options that are similar.

Anonymous wrote:How can people recommend schools when the only thing you know is GPA?

Most schools accept most kids.

here you go

https://www.appily.com/colleges/gpa/2-7?sort=field_acceptance_rate

Jmu is not in the cards with a 2.7-3.0 gpa. Not at all.

Anonymous wrote:Look at all your state schools that accept most students. For example, if you are Virginia look at everything that isn't UVA, W&M, VT or JMU. Then filter for best fit: look at size, location, vibes, program of study, etc. Find a few that are possibilities and visit them.

One of these is not like the others. JMU has nothing to do with those other schools. OP, JMU is absolutely in the cards.

SUNY - various
Temple
Univ of Maine
Arizona State U

More in a chart at this link:

https://www.road2college.com/how-a-student-with-a-2-7-gpa-got-into-19-colleges/

Anonymous wrote:VCU, GMU, ODU. Not engineering. Maybe business depending on math grades.

GPA is below 25th percentile for GMU but definitely worth a try

How can people recommend schools when the only thing you know is GPA?

Hi, my kid is similar (current senior) 3.0uw GPA. His weighted is actually lower bc it’s a weighted academic average and he had no honors or AP, our school only allows kids with “As”in PreReqs to take Honors or AP.

1380 SAT, took it once. With the low GPA it didn’t seem worth it to try again. Bright kid, executive function issues, mostly wants to just play his guitar.

I second the suggestion to sign up on the Facebook group “College Admissions for Awesomely Average Kids.” They get a little pissed if you reveal that your kid’s score is higher than about 1200, so keep that to yourself. But many schools will take a kid with a lower GPA. If your school has Naviance or SCOIR, look at the scatter plots and see where lower GPA kids are getting accepted.

My kid has been accepted to Miami of Ohio, U Cincinnati, Temple, Rowan in NJ, Belmont in Nashville.

Deferred from Drexel and JMU. Waiting on Ithaca College, U Denver, U Conn (which is a long shot), and a couple of very music-oriented schools. He has very good grades senior year, so thinking that Drexel may convert to acceptance after his first semester grades are submitted (but probably not JMU).

Rejected from (very competitive) Jacobs School of Music at IU. But IU itself didn’t reject him, they told him if he wanted to select a major outside of the music school, they would evaluate his application. I think he had a good shot at being accepted if he’d been willing to select something else.

He had to pick schools based on a specific major that he wanted, but plenty of larger state schools have high acceptance rates; Michigan St, Colorado St, Ole Miss, Kansas, UNH, URI, U of Utah, IU if you’re not going for Kelley or Jacobs—and plenty of others. Plus smaller schools that will evaluate holistically—Ithaca College is an example of that.

Your student’s SAT score is pretty high for that GPA. Is there a diagnosis like ADHD? Were there extenuating circumstances during high school? Providing some context would make it easier to make recommendations for where your student would get admitted—and be successful.

Is there a weighted GPA that will be on the transcript? How many Cs? How is course rigor? Major?

One of my kids had a weighted 3.4 (probably 3.1 unweighted), 30 ACT, only 2 APs, decent number of honors classes, 3 Cs, more Bs than As, only got to pre-calc and was admitted to Minnesota, Indiana and some other decent schools. She did not apply to competitive majors. She ended up at Colorado State which was a great fit for her interests.

Shepherd University is pretty nice. Amazing little college town. Fun D2 sports scene

I’d start with local schools

Mary Washington
Radford
U of Lynchburg
Salisbury
Frostburg
York College of PA

Anonymous wrote:Look at National Universities ranked by US News. Start no higher, imo, than about the level of the University of Delaware which is at #88 and on down. University of Kansas is #143. Keep looking lower too. Down to #200 and lower. There are plenty of good schools. The lower you go, generally, correlates to: easier to get in. He does not need to go to community college. What can you afford?

I'd say Delaware is a no and I don't think GMU will take someone under 3.0 but agree over all. And there are so so many small liberal art schools to look at.

Anonymous wrote:Community college then transfer.

You chime in with this BS all the time.