<p>crester: UDenver is definitely a good addition to this thread; it was on my daughter’s original list; distance and calendar took it off…she has a close friend attending next year (not Jewish); have heard very good things about it both academically and socially…
match for a “B” student…</p>
<p>Lots of great things about this school for a Jewish B student. It would be on S2’s list if it were closer. About a 70% admit rate - fine for a B student - about a 26-27 ACT on average. Offers early action - 11/1 deadline.</p>
<p>Here’s some stats from their website:</p>
<p>GPA</p>
<p>The average high school GPA for fall 2009 accepted students is 3.7. Middle 50%: 3.5-4.0.</p>
<p>Standardized Tests</p>
<p>Although academic performance in high school is the most important factor in our admission process, we also consider scores earned on the SAT or ACT exams. Applicants are required to submit the official results of the SAT Reasoning Test or the ACT. The writing components for both the SAT and ACT will be accepted for review, but will not be used for admission decisions; we do not require any SAT Subject Tests. For students who submit results from multiple test dates, we will mix and match the individual section scores to create a composite superscore. When assessing your test scores, we will use the highest composite superscore earned on either exam (ACT or SAT).</p>
<p>The median 50 percentile for the fall 2009 accepted students were the following:</p>
<p> SAT combined: 1130-1300, Average is 1219
ACT: 25-30, Average is 27</p>
<p>Honestly - this school is such a good match for S2 - should I rethink Denver?</p>
<p>[The</a> Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver | Denver, Colorado](<a href=“Center for Judaic Studies | University of Denver”>Center for Judaic Studies | University of Denver)</p>
<p>rm: check out the academic calendar; if that works for you then I would definitely reconsider for your son; we felt that a June finish would not be great for us (on many levels, not the least of which being that internships/jobs etc would be difficult especially for interviews)</p>
<p>note: there are schools on the east coast that also have a late finish; different situation…</p>
<p>I just thought of another one! University of Tampa. Beautiful campus, lots to do around town and very amenable to Jewish “B” students.</p>
<p>college4three, Tampa offered my son his best package after FA.</p>
<p>Goodmorning Rockvillemom:</p>
<p>I posted a few comments much earlier in this thread and suggested to you The University of Richmond…glad to see that you may be pursuing that for your S2, even as a reach.</p>
<p>I cannot believe how this thread has taken off, there are obviously many Jewish parents (and students) in the “B” range that have found this thread extremely helpful.</p>
<p>Can I pose a question…my Jewish S2 will be looking at colleges in the next year or so and he is also a “B-B+” student. We live in the northeast and he will be looking at colleges that offer engineering, robotics, game design…would anyone be able to offer suggestions? I guess it never hurts putting together a list even though I have plenty of time…</p>
<p>Thank you so much and I have enjoyed reading everyone’s input!</p>
<p>I know a girl who fits that description - on game design - and she applied ED to Carnegie mellon and was accepted. I can’t post her stats of course, but I think it wuld be possible as an ED for a B+ student or regular for an A- student.</p>
<p>I have to clarify - probably a reach - but it fits the bill otherwise.</p>
<p>Took a day off from the thread and I had lots of catching up to do!</p>
<p>DMMLE - Not sure if they have been mentioned or not, but have you looked at Bentley (MA) or Bryant (RI)?</p>
<p>Rockvillemom- re: ED at CMU, that’s very interesting to me, currently, my D says that is her first choice (on paper, haven’t been to visit). Do you know if she ended up receiving an type of FA there? I have heard mixed things about applying ED to CMU regarding FA.</p>
<p>Sorry - I have no idea about FA for the ED at Carnegie Mellon.</p>
<p>Drexel in Philly for B student interested in engineering, robotics and game design. Active Hillel.</p>
<p>chocchipcookie: take a look at Northeastern for engineering. If you’d consider West Coast, UC Santa Cruz offers game design and is one of the easier UC’s to get in to. Beautiful setting and good Jewish life.</p>
<p>Rockville Mom: Does your son like to ski? Colorado is paradise for skier’s and those who love snow sports.I suggest that you think about the kinds of extra curriculars your son will enjoy (in addition to Hillel) so that he has a good social fit as well as academic fit. Also, I would inquire about Business internships and post graduation employment rates in Denver before committing.</p>
<p>Rockvillemom: Thank you for your suggestion re: CMU, however for my S2, a “B” student, that wouldn’t be a good match. If his grades were more stellar, I would agree with that choice of school. Plus, I’ve heard that their programs are very intense and lots and lots of homework…however, for anyone else looking there, from what I hear, the Hillel house serves CMU and UPitt and is quite lovely.</p>
<p>2boysima: Thanks for suggesting Drexel. How large is the school? Is it smack in the middle of the city? I’ll look into it, thank you.</p>
<p>srco14: Thanks to you for suggesting Northeastern. I’ll look into that too. Drexel and Northeastern seem like good choices, but rather large…does anyone know anything re: RPI or WPI, from a Hillel or Jewish student point of view?</p>
<p>Sorry, scro14: We’re concentrating on colleges close to home for undergrad…once they go beyond that and go to grad school, if they want to go to the west coast, it’s no problem! :)</p>
<p>maybe Cornell?</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon: My older son went 3 times to visit the school. I did not like it on our first visit because I thought the program was very narrow focus and it can be hard to change your major. You actually apply to a major, not just Carnegie Mellon. Also, the buzz word was it is earlier to get accepted ED to Carnegie Mellon, but ED reduces your chances of aid. There are few girls in Engineering there so i think a girl has an easier time of getting into the School of Computer Science or Carnegie Institute of Technology.
Carnegie Mellon is great if your entire life is driven around the specialty you apply to and you are just very much focused on your specialty. I am happy that I don’t have to pay $50,000 X 4 for Carnegie Mellon.</p>
<p>Northeastern: Big plus is its internships program.</p>
<p>Boy wonder:
Are you suggesting Cornell for my “B” student? How would that happen? I can’t imagine he would ever apply to Cornell unless his grades were top notch.</p>
<p>mdcissp:
I’ll definitely look into Northeastern, thank you.</p>
<p>what about WPI (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) for engineering, robotics and game design? It has the disadvantage of location but it is thought of highly. The have a program called Interactive Media and Game Design and something serious in robotics. The school appears to be SAT optional.</p>
<p>I pulled these statistics off the web but the key stats are 33% of the kids have GPAs in the 75th to 90th percentile and 11% of the kids have GPAs in the 50th to 75th percentile:</p>
<p>High School Rank<br>
Percent of first-year students submitting high school class standing: 67%
2008 Freshmen in top 10 percent of high school class: 53%
Freshmen in top 25 percent of high school class (2008): 88%
Freshmen in top 50 percent of high school class (2008): 99%
High School GPA<br>
Percent of first-year students submitting high school GPA: 82%
Average high school GPA: 3.7
Fall 2008 Freshmen Average SAT Scores<br>
Percent of first-year students submitting SAT scores: 93%
SAT Critical Reading 25th-75th percentile range: 550-660
SAT Math 25th-75th percentile range: 630-720
SAT Writing 25th-75th percentile range 550-650
SAT Essay 25th-75th percentile range: N/A
Percent with SAT Critical Reading scores in the 700-800 range: 13%
Percent with SAT Critical Reading scores in the 600-699 range: 42%
Percent with SAT Critical Reading scores in the 500-599 range: 37%
Percent with SAT Critical Reading scores in the 400-499 range: 7%
Percent with SAT Critical Reading scores in the 300-399 range: 1%
Percent with SAT Critical Reading scores in the 200-299 range: 0%
Percent with SAT Math scores in the 700-800 range: 37%
Percent with SAT Math scores in the 600-699 range: 51%
Percent with SAT Math scores in the 500-599 range: 12%</p>
<p>Fall 2008 Freshmen Average ACT Scores<br>
Percent of first-year students submitting ACT scores 21%</p>
<p>ACT Composite 25th-75th percentile range: 25-30</p>
<p>Thank you so much for doing all that work, Shawbridge! :)</p>
<p>If you see my post# 654, and in keeping in the theme of this thread, I was asking if anyone knew anything about RPI or WPI from a Hillel/Jewish pont of view?</p>
<p>My cousin graduated a few years ago - had a good experience - was active in Hillel and did the Birthright tour to Israel. (Of course, he is now engaged to a non-Jew, but I digress…)</p>
<p>“Worcester, MA: Swastikas were spray painted on the door of a suite occupied by two Jewish students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), and the word “Jew” was written on a student’s white board. ADL provided resources from its Confronting Anti-Semitism program to help the college’s Hillel respond.” Found this one incident report on the ADL website from 2007 - not sure if one incident 3 years ago is relevent, but since I found it, I’ll share it.</p>
<p>and the Hillel link: [WPI</a> Hillel](<a href=“http://heap.joshdick.net/hillel/index.shtml]WPI”>http://heap.joshdick.net/hillel/index.shtml) My suggestion would be to e-mail some of the contacts on this link and ask for their input. That’s what I did when S1 was going through this process and I found it very helpful.</p>