GPA/SAT Senior year Grades

Marinozai
Sat, 13 Jul 2013 17:00:59 +0000

Yeah, you are in a pretty tough position. Your GPA is, like you said, not ideal to say the least. Your SAT score, however, isn’t to be thought of as “average”. Yes, technically 1500 is the average score. However, most colleges would like a score higher than that. I would definitely recommend retaking it.
I know you are an athlete and I don’t know your rank, but unless you’re one of the top athletes in your sport/division/whatever it’s not going to help you that much.

As for chances of getting into a four year university, with thousands to choose from you can definitely get into one - just not a selective university. I looked into Merrimack, and I think that you might be able to get in. It’s average SAT scores are 1570-1740, so you might want to retake the SAT, or try taking the ACT to see if you do better on that. However, your GPA is a problem. Definitely work your ass off to raise that as much as possible. It doesn’t matter if you’ve been a member of your school’s ___ team since somethingth grade - unless you are a true competitive athlete who competes on a statewide/nationwide level, that is not going to help you.

However, there are many, many 4 year universities like Merrimak that have lower test ranges and GPAs - I would look into “Colleges That Change Lives” - they are a range of colleges across the country that were featured in a book by that title. They are supposedly “underrated” and aren’t very selective, yet offer many valuable opportunities for students. I don’t know where you live - I’m in LA and there are Colleges That Change Lives college fairs on here within the next month. I would check it out.

Good luck!