Best East Coast Colleges for a B Student

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<p>SUNY Stony Brook and New Paltz could be cheaper for our of state students. They might be my match schools.</p>

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<p>Boston U would be a reach/match, but only for the College of General Studies. The others would be reaches.</p>

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<p>Unless you went to Andover or Exeter or something, no one is getting into PSU-University Park with a 3.08 and 1100/1600. You dont get into University Park with that in state unless you’re a recruited athlete or have tremendous extra curricurlars. </p>

<p>As far as Temple goes, last year’s average was 1110/1600 math+critical reading and a 3.4 GPA. You’d have a solid shot of admittance.</p>

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<p>Agreed. Boston, SUNY Stony Brook, Richard Stockton and Temple are all good.</p>

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<p>This chart shows likelihood of admission to Penn State -UP:</p>

<p><a href=“http://admissions.psu.edu/info/counselors/bubble_chart06.pdf[/url]”>http://admissions.psu.edu/info/counselors/bubble_chart06.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>as others have said, i’d check out most SUNYs (except maybe binghamton and geneseo, as they’re pretty hard to get into). buffalo, new paltz, stony brook, and albany might be worth a look. clark in MA, clarkson and st. lawrence in NY are others.</p>

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<p>look at the University Of Pittsburgh</p>

<p>just making a prediction: Pitt will be on the Princeton Review’s Top 20 list for “Best Quality Of Life” when their 2011 college book comes out next week.</p>

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<p>In short, good public schools… plus Boston, Richard Stockton and a few not-so-famous colleges.</p>

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<p>Penn State University Park would be a reach. They get so many applications each year (usually number 2 to UCLA) that their admissions decisions are almost entirely numbers based. As previously mentioned, Naviance often includes Penn State’s satellite campuses. If you have your heart set on Penn State, you might want to consider 2 years in a satellite campus and then moving on to University Park. Maybe research the satellite campuses. Pitt would also appear to be a reach but Pitt does purport to consider other information. You also might want to consider Ohio U and WVU as safeties, each one state away from PA.</p>

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<p>Folks, your advice is excellent. I note, though, that the thread is from last year. There is a current thread aimed at B students of 2011 applying this year who would benefit from your advice.</p>

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<p>I see… But then, the context would be the East Coast in this case.</p>

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<p>I second the Drew idea.</p>

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<p>ruennshang, there is nothing wrong with posting here, but, if you look back, no one has posted a question here in almost a year. The nonregional thread is moe active. Last year, I suggested to the other other activeposters on the 3.0-3.3 thread that regional threads would save people from wasting time sorting through posts about far away schools of no interest to them, but the idea did not catch on.</p>