We aren’t black but look maybe hispanic… visited and We love New Orleans. It visited twice in the heat of July. Maybe we could visit again. His brother loved Tulane and was accepted but cost was too much at the time. Loyola gave a great scholarship though and no Greek life with traditional houses. Beautiful location.
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Are these preferred because they’re locations closer to the northeast? Or…? Knowing what it is that is initially attractive about these schools can help us to hone in on your son’s preferences more.
Just the other day there was a thread about the new requirements to be accepted into Kelley (if not a direct admit, which your son would not be). Students will need to earn a B+ in every business prereq class to be accepted to Kelley: IU Kelley Standard Admit Updated Requirements for 2025-26. I forgot about that when I shared, but Kelley’s a great business school and communications/journalism at IU is strong.
You have my respect for visiting in July…twice! If your family loved New Orleans at that time of year, then I suspect your family would love it at any time of year as July (and August) are low tourism seasons for a reason! Loyola New Orleans is a great school, but I’m not sure it’s the right vibe based on how you described what your son is looking for…it was just an example of a school that I’m familiar with to illustrate my point about racial interactions in the south.
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If ASU means Arizona State University (versus Alabama or Appalachian), then frosh admission requirements are listed at First-year admission requirements | Admission | ASU
However, some business majors have higher admission requirements for the major. Check the page for each business majors here: https://degrees.apps.asu.edu/bachelors/major-list/interest-area/04 . For communication type majors, see https://degrees.apps.asu.edu/bachelors/major-list/interest-area/05
Yes, Arizona State and Univ of Arizona we’re looking at.
For ASU, you can recalculate unweighted GPA using the listed competency courses, then check for whether it is a safety or reach for general admission (3.00 GPA) and for each major of interest. For UA, that applies to general admission, but it is less transparent about majors that may be more selective.
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Not sure if College of Charleston would be a realistic admit, but there are others on your list with similar student stats, and with a 72% acceptance rate it could be worth a try. Their business school has a lot of great academic options, and their Center for Entrepreneurship seems like it could be appealing. There’s a communication major & minor too. Charleston is a vibrant and fairly-diverse city.
Maybe James Madison U in VA? URI? Ohio U (especially for communications: Scripps College of Communication | Ohio University ) or MiamiOH?
I don’t think SDSU is going to happen. For California-adjacent, in addition to the Arizona schools, U of Nevada Reno could be worth a look (and maybe UNLV if their strengths in terms of business & communications align with his interests).
McDaniel College in Maryland may be too small for him, but they do have Greek life and are unusually diverse for a smaller school. They have a practical bent that he would probably like, with multiple business-oriented majors, a communications major, and an entrepreneurship minor. If you wanted to check out a small school for comparison, this could be a good one to try.
Would he like the real-world engagement of a co-op program? Drexel or U of Cincinnati could work.
Lots of good options; it’s really a matter of finding the right fit from among the many schools that would be accessible to him admissions-wise. If your budget were tighter, it would be a tougher problem, but lots of great schools would be in budget for you.
To me, it’s really the subtleties of his interests that will help individual schools rise to the top of the list, so it’s hard to guess without more detail, but I definitely understand your not wanting to get more specific.
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My Latina daughter is off to Central Michigan in fall. Midsized. D1 sports. 67% white so moderate diversity. True college town. Greek life. No oos tuition. Cost starts at 27k and there is auto merit (3.1 gpa TO gives 3500/yr merit). My daughter is doing the MAC program which is another 4k/yr scholarship. No communal bathrooms, all suite style dorms. Dorm food was decent. The social media sites are pretty representative of life at CMich my daughter felt after her visits there.
My other kid is a Syracuse. Whitman (the business school) is super competitive to get into and not easy to transfer into after admitted. GPA and TO will make it a reach for your kid as you said. With current cost being around 90k/yr, likely unaffordable as well.
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We’re from the northeast so we’d be paying OOS. This is such useful information you gave here. Thanks
We haven’t looked at that school yet but it sounds like something that would be of interest!
I believe I learned about the school from here. Dragged d25 to their CMU and You event last September. It went from “nobodys heard of his school mom” to “can i buy the sweatshirt” and comparing every school we visited to Cmu. She thought the professors she talked to were very nice and helpful in discussing future plans and options.
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How about the business school at UNH? Much easier admit than Umass Isenberg.
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Mizzou
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Seconding Mizzou, and would also look at Kansas and Nebraska.
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@txfriendly Kansas is great. I graduated from there many moons ago. Lawrence is a nice little town but there is an unhoused crisis there for such a small town. Anyone have the details on what’s happening with their palette city and how it affects the students and the downtown? Also it’s too far for my city boy. He loves Jayhawk bball though. Also KU OOS is crazy pricey now for what you get. They got rid of their generations scholarship and have some not so great scholarships for OOS.
And no way would we send our kid to Missouri hahaha
Sorry Rock Chalk
Charleston is a pretty town but I don’t see much diversity there beyond affluent kids. The tuition is quite high too. We have friends who went to school in Charleston, and visited. Lovely but still stuck in the old southern mentality for some.
The locations are desirable to my kid because of the school spirit type atmosphere, Greek life, undergrad programs. It all comes down to fit and what type of student life he can build there in a semi-medium to large-ish school. d1 sports is exciting to him and he is also looking into media and film for studying.
I’d urge him to investigate some of the schools suggested more closely. For the schools I suggested in my earlier post I pulled the athletic and student life grades from Niche (which are based on student surveys as well as reports on things like sport attendance, records, etc) and then I used this aggregator to pull the percentage of students in fraternities (and USNWR for the two that weren’t in the aggregator). I’m pretty sure they’re all D1 schools, too.
| School | Niche Athletic Grade | Niche Student Life Grade | % in Fraternities |
|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian State | A+ | A | 11% |
| Michigan State | A+ | A+ | 11% |
| Seton Hall | A | A- | 4% USNWR |
| U. of Cincinnati | A | A+ | 10% |
| Indiana U. | A+ | A+ | 23% |
| U. of Dayton | A- | A+ | 10% USNWR |
| U. of Houston | A | A- | 3% |
| U. of Minnesota | A+ | A+ | Not Reported |
Cincy is a school I’ve recommended to people interested in film before. It offers a BFA in Media Production (whether film, tv, broadcast news, etc), a BIS in Digital Media Production, and a BA in Film & Media Studies (which actually incorporates practical work and not just theoretical). If your son does this kind of digging at other schools that posters suggest, he may find some places that could be a good fit for him.
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So helpful! Thanks for the list
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