Getting a little worried!

MomTheChauffer
Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:51:25 +0000

I’ll give you my daughter’s stats since she’s in the class of '17:
SAT: 1760
ACT: 28
Class Rank: 9/126
AP US - 3
AP Euro - 4
All honors classes and graduated with advanced designation. Member of National Honor Society and Spanish National Honor Society.
GPA: 3.8 (not weighted)
Accepted to: SUNY Albany; College of St. Rose, Manhattan College, Fordham (attending), University of California-San Diego; University of California-Santa Barbara, Elon, Flagler College.

Rejected: University of Miami, University of Southern California, Boston University, Northwestern, UCLA

Waitlisted: Marist

She also attended a Catholic HS in NYC, which I think helped A LOT with the Fordham acceptance. They had accepted one of my daughter’s friends with a Presidential Scholarship for EA, and her stats were much higher than my daughter’s. My daughter received a small Jogues scholarship, but great grant money. She received merit money from most schools (except the UC’s).
Her extra curricular’s were clubs and lots of volunteer work.

It is getting harder and harder to get into Fordham. I think if she was applying this time around, she might not get in because of that SAT score. So your ACT is good, but those C’s might hurt. I would seriously consider doing regular decision. We did EA for Miami and Elon and she only got into Elon, but the offered no merit and very small grant, which was fine by us, she didn’t really get a good vibe from Elon.

Fordham was the next to last school to hear from and I was quite surprised to see she got in with such a good FA package. I’d rather have a small scholarship and bigger grant so there’s less stress to maintain that GPA to keep the scholarship. Fordham is tough. It is really testing her. Things came easy, but not now. She is actually having to work harder than she ever had to before. If your ECs are strong along with your essay to make you stand out, you might have a chance.

Good luck!