<p>I would like to go to a good college but my grades are not very stellar. I want to be a history major on a school on the eastern coast preferably from North Carolina to Maine. My GPA is around a 3.3, and i expect my recent SATS to be around a 1750. What do I have for choices, right now I am looking at UConn, Drexel, Temple, Northeastern, Umass Amherst, and Penn State. Did I miss any school that I would be a good fit with?</p>
<p>Don’t forget Boston University. Great school for people with middling grades.</p>
<p>How about Hobart and William Smith? It’s a rising school, some merit aid, and well known as having an excellent faculty with some very good students…</p>
<p>You have a lot of good options. To narrow the list, what other criteria are you looking for in terms of size and location? Your current list mixes city and rural schools. You seem to want large public schools (note that out of state tuition can be high), but do you want large history classes rather than a small college with small classes? And why Drexel for history?
I also regret to suggest that you seem lower than the usual admits at every school on your list except UMass.
Some of the state schools not on your list–MD; DE, Rutgers, unfortunately are similar. URI and UVT are easier.</p>
<p>I dont really care about the size of the school. I’m fine with either a really big school or a really little school. I’m not really worrying about cost right now. I figured that I’d apply to the schools that I was interested in and worry about choosing what school based on the cost of attendance and how much I like the school.
Clark and James Madison University were what I thought to be my saftey schools.
I thought that I was_ for the following:
UConn-Match/Reach
Umass-Match/Safety
Penn State-Match/Safety
Northeastern-Reach
Drexel-Reach
Temple-Match/reach
Rutgers-match</p>
<p>Do you know which ones are incorrect?
By the way, I checked out URI over the summer and wasn’t a big lover of the campus</p>
<p>Does your school use the Naviance software which would let you see how recent applicants from your school have done at these schools? Have you gone over your list with your guidance counselor? Unless you are in PA, I think you understate the difficulty of admission to PSU and Temple and I believe Rutgers wants more than a 3.3 even in state.</p>
<p>Have you looked at midsize schools such as St Joe, Loyola MD, Quinnipiac and Fairfield?</p>
<p>And there are many excellent small schools (Clark and Hobart are fine examples), if you do not mind small towns–Washington College; Mary Washington; Roanoke; Salisbury; Goucher; Drew.</p>
<p>Yea my school does use Naviance. Its weird, on the scattergram there are people with similar scores as me that got into Penn State. It actually shows me as a saftey school. The average accept GPA is a 3.08, 1100 SAT(out of 2400). I knew the rest of them were sort of reaches but a kid can dream can’t he? I wanna check out Loyola MD as well, i know a few people that go there and they love it.</p>
<p>No reason not to dream. Watch out with one aspect of Naviance–sometimes the kids with the encouragingly low stats are recruited athletes; underrepresented minorities; children of graduates or others with connections.</p>
<p>Temple is more of a match, and Drexel is a match as well. Definitely not reaches!</p>
<p>I got into both last year, and I had a sub 3.0uw GPA.</p>
<p>St Lawrence?</p>
<p>I think PSU is more of a reach based on what happened at our school. Should have better chances at Temple and UMass. Unsure on the others. Some others to possibly check into are Marist (NY), Susquehanna ¶, Towson (MD), George Mason (VA), UNH and Hofstra (NY). Best of luck!</p>
<p>Chris and SingSance, are you from PA? Dinotechristmas on CC has been warning sub.3.5 out of state kids that Temple is harder than they think to get in and, at our NJ HS, PSU is harder than 3.0
Poi’s suggestions are very good, too</p>
<p>Penn State Naviance usually includes satellite campuses; just a warning to the OP</p>
<p>I’m from massachusetts by the way/</p>
<p>I definitely think Penn State- University Park is a reach for you. My brother almost did not get in, and he had a higher GPA, applied for summer session,is a legacy(Not that it really matters), and we are in state.</p>
<p>And that was two years ago…</p>
<p>yabeyabe2 - Nope. I’m from NY.</p>
<p>Is Northeastern really more of a reach then Boston college or boston university?</p>
<p>my impresson is that the order of admissions difficulty is BC, BU, NE, but that could vary by high school; major; etc. The NE co-op program makes it uniquely attractive to many applicants and NE may also appeal more to computer students</p>
<p>I was just at a conference held at Ithaca College this weekend. It has great facilities and some well respected majors. It is also located in a great (by many standards) college town. I think it fits your stats.</p>
<p>A a relatively unknown public liberal arts college with a surprisingly strong History department is Richard Stockton College in New Jersey. Not far from Atlantic City. Very broad general education [core] program with emphasis on history and culture. The school is unranked and overlooked but worth investigating if you’re a high school student already on the Eastern Seaboard.</p>