<p>Hi Parents,</p>
<p>My friend’s son attends a small charter high school where only honors or AP classes are taught. He is now a senior looking for colleges, preferably in Florida. His SAT scores are a bit low. How do you think colleges will react to these type of stats? Will the GPA take him off the radar of most schools? </p>
<p>He is interested in Sports Management. </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>It’s likely the schools he’ll target will be formula based admissions. He’ll face an uphill challenge. He should focus on retaking the SAT or possibly study for the ACT. Some kids do remarkably better on one over the other. It can’t hurt.</p>
<p>Good advice thanks.</p>
<p>This is the kind of situation where doing the first two years at a community college might be worth considering.</p>
<p>It sounds as though he has excellent high school preparation. If he does well at the community college – which he probably would – he would be an an excellent position to transfer to a four-year school and should have lots of choices.</p>
<p>It also depends to a degree where his gpa puts him in relation to his class. All the students at his charter high school had the same curriculum…how did he stack up against them? Is the school known for grade deflation.</p>
<p>However given that the gpa is coupled with what you say are low test scores, it’s likely that the grades and scores correlate.</p>
<p>I think this is an unusual case of a student taking classes above his skill set, primarily to stay at highly regarded school. He falls at the lower end of class rank. Most students who find the curriculum too challenging usually leave for another high school. </p>
<p>The parents are afraid he will not get into any 4 year university. They have on their radar Gulf Coast and University of Tampa. </p>
<p>Great point about community college.</p>
<p>How about University of West Florida?</p>
<p>He needs to find schools with programs in sports management (I don’t know how common they are) or general business (with internships at sports teams). Check schools with coop programs, too, because they’ll give him work experience before he graduates.</p>
<p>Does he need financial aid?</p>
<p>What about Florida Atlantic or FIU? I know FIU is more of a commuter school but I think it’s city location gives kids the possibility to hold down jobs and do internships and that is a real advantage.</p>
<p>It’s not instate but Guilford has sports management and our school has kids get in with a 2.5.</p>
<p>I will check out Guilford.</p>
<p>As far as Florida schools, they would be happy with any of them. However, when you look at GPAs they all seem to accept higher than the 2.5 GPA. FAU is showing the bottom 17% have a GPA 2.5 to 2.99. With those from Florida, do you think an FAU or UTampa is a possibility?</p>
<p>Great advice on internships!</p>
<p>According to the 2008-2009 common data set for FAU, 33% of the accepted class had an unweighted gpa under 3.0. I didn’t see a more recent data set but here’s the info: </p>
<p>[FAU</a> - 2008-09 Common Data Set](<a href=“http://www.fau.edu/iea/cds/cds08.php]FAU”>http://www.fau.edu/iea/cds/cds08.php)</p>
<p>That said, he is at the bottom of the pool so , if he’s interested,I would get that application in asap (it’s rolling admission) and write really good essays.</p>
<p>According to their website, this is their 25-75%. They don’t say whether the gpas are weighted. Also, they superscore any test results-- using the best subsections. </p>
<p>High School GPA ACT composite SAT total
3.35 - 3.95 23 - 27 1560 - 1770</p>
<p>FAU’s Minimum Required Test Scores</p>
<p>SAT
Critical Reading Math Writing
460 460 440</p>
<p>ACT
Reading Math English/Writing
19 19 18</p>
<p>Wow great advice on rolling admissions! Thanks again.</p>
<p>Parents have no worries- every student can get into some four year college!</p>
<p>Here is a list of schools with 100% (or very high) acceptance rates. Maybe look at list to see if any Florida schools or cross this list with another website that lists schools offering sports management: </p>
<p>[Top</a> 100 - Highest Acceptance Rates | Rankings | US News](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/highest-acceptance-rate]Top”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/highest-acceptance-rate)</p>