College Recommendations For a Student With a 3.6 W GPA?

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<p>Well, I’ve decided to construct a new college list from scratch (with the exception of my two dream schools - NYU and American which will stay on the list). I would appreciate any college recommendations anyone could give me.</p>

<p>Stats:
3.5 UW/3.6 W GPA, 26 ACT (will retake in October and from my practice tests, I think I’ll get a 28), very strong essay, good extracurriculars and good recommendations. I’m from Nebraska.</p>

<p>My intended major is international business, with the intent of attending law school, though if the school offers a 5-year MBA program, I may pursue my MBA first.</p>

<p>Need suggestions for safeties/match schools, please.</p>

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<p>What about UT-Austin (McCombs)? It is competitive for admission…</p>

<p><a href=“http://bealonghorn.utexas.edu/freshmen/admission/majors/business/index.html[/url]”>http://bealonghorn.utexas.edu/freshmen/admission/majors/business/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>UT Austin is actually the first university I looked into, because I have family spread throughout Texas, it has a reasonable tuition, and it’s a solid academic institution. </p>

<p>The downside though, is that from my research on CollegeBoard, etc., UT admits less than 5% out-of-state students, because of the mandatory top 10% rule. So I kind of ruled myself out on that one - should I reconsider?</p>

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<p>Fordham has a great business school and you have an excellent chance of being accepted.</p>

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<p>You never know, it’s worth a shot, especially with good extracirriculars, essay and recs. Admission seems to weigh your class rank. Any idea what your class rank is?</p>

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<p>Thanks mtngoat - that’s actually one of the few that I wanted to keep on my list, it is indeed a great school.</p>

<p>UCB - My class rank definitely doesn’t work in my favor. I’m ranked in the top 25% (though in all fairness my school is pretty rigorous academically - top school in the state, top 100 private school, the whole shabang) of my class. The other thing is, my counselor wasn’t able to give me much feedback about UT Austin, because in the past 5 years no one from my school applied to a Texas state school. The only school in Texas that students really apply to is TCU.</p>

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<p>USC (Univerisity of South Carolina, NOT Southern California) has the top-ranked international business school in the country. Also it is a great school with a great location; you should definately check it out.</p>

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<p>Thanks Cuse, but I’m a realistic person.</p>

<p>USC is above my credentials, unfortunately.</p>

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<p>I don’t think University of South Carolina is above your credentials at all.</p>

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<p>Eh - I feel like such a fool. Cuse made a point of specifying that he wasn’t referring to University of Southern California - and for some reason, I didn’t see it when I made my last post.</p>

<p>I’ve looked into the University of South Carolina and it seems like a very good school. Does anyone have any idea of whether or not they’re good at handing out financial aid?</p>

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<p>I thought you were selling yourself short. Why be a prophylactic when you can be a gamecock? :p</p>

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<p>Usually that’s the case. In fact - now that I’m looking at South Carolina’s stats, I’m getting that uncertain feeling again. :)</p>

<p>I actually briefly looked into it a few weeks ago when I started my college search and I talked to my counselor who was no help for it either. In his 30 years as a counselor, they’ve never sent anyone to USC, so he couldn’t give me any feedback… basically told me to go look at it on my own. I really don’t think anyone/many people go there from Nebraska, and it only has a 11% out of state - which could work to my advantage.</p>

<p>I see that the average GPA is 3.90, which is quite a bit higher than mine. What do you guys think my chances would be at USC?</p>

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<p>The average GPA at a state school will be higher than normal because they get lots of over-qualified in-state applicants who can’t afford to go OOS. Their standards for admission are USUALLY well below the reported average GPA. I think that’s the case with USC.</p>

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<p>Schools in the NE would probably fall over themselves to have someone enroll from Nebraska - assuming you could handle some serious culture shock. Babson is a business oriented school in suburban Boston.</p>

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<p>Holy Cross and Babson.</p>

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<p>Also Northeastern or BU if you prefer urban setting.</p>

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<p>Is being from Nebraska really that much of an advantage? I don’t know how many students throughout the state pursue northeastern colleges, etc., though I do know that my high school (it’s the toughest in the state) represents our school well, at least.</p>

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<p>^^It won’t get you in if your stats are not in range, but I would guess it will get your application a careful look - I suspect local adcoms just don’t see that many apps from what, around here, is called “flyover country” (no offense meant).</p>

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<p>USC was good to me, although in the end I chose Syracuse. I had a GPA around 3.6 UW, 2200 SAT and got what amounted to $64,000 in merit-based scholarships from USC. A good thing is that if you are out of state and you receive any kind of merit scholarship at all you also get your tuition reduced to the in-state levels. </p>

<p>USC is a great school and I probably would have picked it over UNC and even Syracuse if I had been accepted to the honors college there. Unfortunately I never turned in the honors portion of the application (didn’t read the part about the required letters of rec. until the night the app was due). Even without the honors college though you can’t get much better than USC’s international business school. And the weather there is just incredible!</p>

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<p>$64,000 in merit aid scholarships? That’s great! I’ve been reading into USC more, and the more I read about it - the more I’m falling for the idea!</p>