<p>ACT - 27
GPA - 3.84</p>
<p>Great letters of rec, good essays, tons of ecs including student government, choral groups, leadership positions, etc. Applying to communications school. Live in socal.</p>
<p>Her ACT is low for any school except CGS. But you never know. So much depends on essays and other variables.</p>
<p>Your daughter has a very good chance of being accepted. Her ACT is on the lower 50% margin of accepted students to BU (which still means that 25% of the Class of 2011 had a score below her), but her SAT is clearly above the 3.6 average. BU certainly weighs the transcripts more than the standardized test scores as well.</p>
<p>It’s a match.</p>
<p>Thanks for your input - she won’t go if CGS is her only option, so we’ll see!</p>
<p>heh yeah I wouldn’t either</p>
<p>no, it seems like a lot of money to spend for a “junior college” experience, though I suppose for a lot of people it will work because it will get them into the school, which is a great thing. She just doesn’t want to be in that kind of a situation. And I agree with her. b2700, do you have experience with the BU process?</p>
<p>No, I don’t personally (other than applying) but I do know someone who went to CGS and from what they’ve said, it is very different from a junior college experience. Students of CGS live amongst the other undergrads, they can get involved in BU activities and leadership, and they graduate with all the others.</p>
<p>The biggest difference is that going to BU CGS guarantees a spot to you after going through prerequisite classes and meeting a 2.0 or 2.3 GPA (depending on the school). Junior colleges usually don’t have this caliber of professors, academics, social life, and most of all guarantee. </p>
<p>Whether your daughter starts at CGS or another BU college, you would be paying the same amount for virtually the same thing. CGS fulfills liberal arts requirements early so the subsequent two years can be spent focusing on major/minor study, rather than the traditional BU mix of both throughout the entire four years.</p>
<p>however, in cgs u dont pick ur classes-theyre picked for u, with the exception of like one or two electives which u can use for ur major. some of the classes include rhetoric, natural sciences, etc. sophomore year ends very early, with finals around april. then the cgs students have a capstone project which is like a group report thing, and its due on the last day of classes. then they can go to a bu school, like communications, and spend their last two years there. howwever, certain majors require more time, so it might take an extra year to complete certain majors. so its not really a jr college or a fulfillment of electives but more so like a continuation of high school, because everything is decided for u. however, cgs students live with all other students and are active participants in the bu community.</p>
<p>All people face the risk of having to stay more than four years in a given college because of grades or whatever extenuating circumstance. At CGS though, you meet with advisors and it is set up so that you can graduate in four years. The only negative is that for the management track (and possibly some others) you have to take a summer class or overload jr year.</p>
<p>Can you get out of CGS early?</p>
<p>No. It’s a 2 year program. See also NYU General Studies for same “general” idea.</p>
<p>I believe you can transfer out of BU while in CGS, but you can’t transfer to another BU degree-granting college untill the two years and requirements are met.</p>
<p>yeah CGS… I heard they’re gettin rid of that in the next couple years. if not let’s start rumors. but yeah I’m pretty sure I actually did hear that from someone who said they read it in the free press not too long ago. anyway I dunno if that’s true but we can keep our hopes up</p>
<p>Uh, wrong DJ. There is a newish strategic plan now, though why someone would read it is beyond me. Calls for upgrading CGS facilities. </p>
<p>You can transfer out of any school at any time, maybe excepting the military academies.</p>
<p>I heard someone say that, too about getting rid of it. Not true. Of course, UNI was expendable, but that’s another story :-/</p>
<p>hmm yeah I wasn’t sure to begin with but oh well. if not now, later.</p>
<p>I wasn’t happy that UNI got canned but I can see the point: no one knew about it; it didn’t generate applications or prestige or cash for the school; it absorbed some high-end costs in teaching talent; it made upgrading honors programs more difficult.</p>
<p>My GPA was lower and my ACT was only 26 but i was just accepted to CAS</p>