Check out Temple, also

Safety:
VCU (but a great school for diversity and solid academics. Don't sleep on this one.)
Radford
Longwood

Target:
ODU
Christopher Newport (gorgeous campus)
UDelaware

Reach:
James Madison
Pitt
Penn State

St. joe’s Philly
Temple
ODU
York College in Pa
Coastal Carolina
Hampton
Norfolk State
NC A & T

Anonymous wrote:Depends on what hs they go to. A student who can barely keep up at Langley would be in the top of the class at some high schools.

OP said he took no advanced classes.

Bumping this and would be interested in more anecdotes coming from public schools with this GPA.

Anonymous wrote:Gonzaga, University of Denver, and University of San Diego

thanks for including a few west coast schools

Howard

loyola maryland

Creighton
Delaware
TCU
Temple
Syracuse

Gonzaga, University of Denver, and University of San Diego

Similar profile (from strong public school) with no hooks and not URM. Got into Indiana, CU Boulder, Arizona, Arizona State, Iowa, UNH, Col State/Fort Collins, Loyola Chicago, and Maine. WL at Syracuse and UVM. Into Penn as 2+2 (ie 'commonwealth campus' for first two yrs). Rejected from Wisconsin. At IU and loving it.

PP -- sorry, not enough coffee yet. That's Penn State not Penn above, of course. Also, this was one year ago (ie the 2020-21 admissions cycle).

Similar profile (from strong public school) with no hooks and not URM. Got into Indiana, CU Boulder, Arizona, Arizona State, Iowa, UNH, Col State/Fort Collins, Loyola Chicago, and Maine. WL at Syracuse and UVM. Into Penn as 2+2 (ie 'commonwealth campus' for first two yrs). Rejected from Wisconsin. At IU and loving it.

Anonymous wrote:Try Michigan State, Indiana which has a great business school, St Joe’s in Philly, Ohio State, Univ of Illinois. These are schools some of son’s friends got in with stats similar to my sons. I mentioned where my son got in. He wanted the South. He too is URM.

What did your DS choose? None of the above are in the south

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Anonymous wrote:Where do kids get accepted who have around a 3.3 or 3.4 GPA? No advanced classes and no test scores. A couple extracurriculars but no leadership positions, just a member. We are in Virginia if that matters and can pay full ride.

Norfolk State, Virginia State, Old Dominion, CNU, JMU, Virginia Union and Radford. Good Luck, there's a school for your DC.

JMU. Probably not.

JMU average gpa is 3.5
acceptance rate is 80%
So yes.

Be wary of relying on that 80% stat. JMU started accepting the common app this past year and had a 44% increase in applicants so that acceptance rate will go down. Might still be an option for OP's kid but keep an eye on the most recent data.

Anonymous wrote:Similar

Into Clemson, Auburn, Indiana, u of AZ, UC Boulder, Elon, college of C, ole Miss, Alabama, U of Denver, Penn State (reg campus), Syracuse, U of Iowa, Santa Clara, SMU and TCU

Denied UGA and Ohio State

Congrats to your DS on crafting a realistic list - sharing it here is helpful for parents with kids in similar situations. GL in college!