ifailedcalculus

debrockman, your son will most likely be a direct-admit because the admission committee takes the weighted grade not the unweighted. As long as your son has a good work ethic or is motivated, he doesn't need to be in the 'honors' dorm. He should visit the school and choose whichever one he likes best.

bballkid2592 trying to transfer from Drexel or Rutgers to those schools would be equally hard. Their transfer rate is much harder than getting in as a freshmen...so unless you pull off a 4.0 and are on the executive board of clubs...your freshmen or sophomore year, it would be near impossible. Also, and i'm not sure about this, i don't think Harvard accepts transfers. I would check Yale too.

good luck

debrockman

ifailed calculus.....my son gets nervous around partiers He tries to avoid excessive revelry My daughter lived in Briscoe and it was chaos. Part of that was a very weak RA. He does have some very good friends who are also pretty serious kids. They tend to keep one another on the straight and narrow.

So....did you REALLY fail Calc?
Where did you go from there?

ifailedcalculus

haha, i failed calculus in high school. I got an A in calc in university. party dorms = McNutt, Briscoe, Reed, Wright and probably Eigenmen. Although Reed and Eigenmenn are probably big enough that your son could go to a quiet place to study. i don't know which dorm the honors dorm belongs to.

Maybe he could try applying to Notre Dame? Smaller more intimate classes. Also with a strong business school.

debrockman

You are funny. Have you seen the price of ND? The entrance requirements? The 50k plus schools are not really doable.....Perhaps if he qualifies to go to a top grad school. I really don't see the payback for a 200k undergraduate education

OSUstudent

Ahh, i'm sorry. I was under the impression that you lived in Ohio.

I'd go with one of the good in-state universities then.

Who knows, though, OSU may offer a nice scholarship.

openedskittles

Yeah, it's just too hard to justify ND when IU is within reach and so much cheaper. A lot of ND and IU students will end up in the same places after graduation, anyway.