<p>[Freshman</a> Students - Accepted Student Profile: Marist College](<a href=“http://www.marist.edu/admission/freshman/profile.html]Freshman”>Undergraduate Accepted Student Profile)
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<p>39% Acceptance Rate</p>
<p>GPA: 3.3 to 3.6 (recalculated)
The middle 50% of accepted students averaged
between 3.3 and 3.6 for their GPA.</p>
<p>She also needs to recalculate her GPA. Take out the fluff classes (health, religion, art, gym, keyboarding, etc.) and recalculate her GPA with the Core classes (English, History, Lab Sciences, Math, and Foreign Language).</p>
<p>It’s getting harder and harder to gain acceptance into Marist. It is becoming more selective.
A 2.4 GPA is not going to cut it at Marist. Her rigor is too low. NO AP classes completed by the end of her junior year. A 2.4 GPA at a “not very good school”----means, an expected even lower GPA had she attended a competitive high school. Her SAT score isn’t very good.</p>
<p>In other words, she’s missing ALL of the big 3 criteria that most 4-year colleges look for:</p>
<ol>
<li> GPA</li>
<li> Rigor of her curriculum</li>
<li> SAT/ACT score</li>
</ol>
<p>She needs to find schools with higher acceptance rates.</p>
<p>Also, you need to understand that her transcript through her junior year is what admission’s offices will use when evaluating her application for admittance. Her senior year grades are used only to show that she hasn’t fallen victim to “senioritis”. Her senior year transcript is to show that the student has maintained rigor and grades–that’s it.</p>