With your stats I’m pretty confident you’d get a good amount of aid from Seton Hall. Could apply for Spring and probably get in the honors program.
https://www.shu.edu/undergraduate-admissions/application-checklist.cfm
Not knocking TCNJ or Rutgers by any means. Just hoping to show you an option you may not have considered.
And you’re not a failure kid, you’ve got good options and obvious talent.
@200iqgamer Remember, in most industries 3 months after you start your first job after college, the name of your college, your major, your GPA in college will become irrelevant. From that point on, your real-world accomplishments will determine your career trajectory. So do your best in which ever college you enroll, connect with your school’s career development office during the first few weeks as a freshman, find out about internship opportunities right away, contact college alumni to ask about internship opportunities, volunteer to help organize visiting talks by employers, and otherwise reach out to potential providers of internships. You’ll quickly find that although a top college may enjoy more attention from some employers for internships, the colleges you mentioned as your current options will have plenty of employers recruiting for internships and jobs. All of the above is predicated upon you going to the career world after college, rather than grad school.
I guess GPA, ethnic quotas, and not having anything special with ECs hurt. You could have applied to some others about the Northeastern and BU level. Those state school are hard to get into OOS. Your GPA is unusually weak compare to your test scores.
On the bright side, your parents will save money with either in state school.If your goal is premed, it is probably easier to get in from a weaker school, as they don’t adjust GPA that much for level of school.
As an AA parent I find this thread to be extremely compelling. The OP has a really great profile and his post and replies indicate that he is a thoughtful, introspective and conscientious young adult. He has obviously worked very hard and cares quite a bit towards academics and his future. It is a shame that he should feel disappointed at a time when his comparable peers are feeling celebratory. I feel he should feel celebratory as well. He has finished one part of his education achieving quite a bit and is now moving to the next chapter with a very strong work ethic and the fire and motivation to get to the next level of his career. Peace of Minds post above has perfect advice for all college freshman. One of my children realized and pursued all of Peace of Minds suggestions and is having a very successful college career with with wonderful prospects upon graduation. I urge the OP to take these suggestions to heart. The other reply’s mention ORM and Y2K which were very insightful. Could an overabundance of Asian American Students with similar, commendable profiles, create an overflow of applications to difficult to admit colleges in the end making it more difficult to "reach " these schools? Thoughts?
I don’t know if this has been mentioned, but in my non-expert opinion I think that if you didn’t need so much financial aid you would have gotten into one of those schools. I get the feeling that that if a school isn’t need blind they use their financial aid money for those with hooks. Yes, your gpa is lower than typical, but everything else about your HS experience and test scores shows that you’re bright and talented. From what I’m seeing where I live, full-pay kids seem to have more choices
A neighbor’s daughter from a recent immigrant family without much money majored in Biology at TCNJ. Then she worked at NIH for 2 years where she co-authored 3 research publications (one in Nature). She is now in a free MD/PHD program and does not feel like a failure at all. You need to stop looking back and move on.
Yo I don’t mean to necro-post but I just wanna say that I’m so sorry for you. Even though the year was competitive, I am absolutely shocked at your results. Rejection purely from your lower gpa seems like an absolutely unreasonable assessment of your credentials. You obviously worked hard, and your classes and grades just didn’t seem to catch up with the rest of your profile.
I’m also appalled at all the people saying these were all “reaches” for you, and telling you to just brush it off. Honestly, if you were an applicant for last year or the year before, you would have had way more success. I have friends from previous years who managed to get into good schools with even WORSE stats than you. Getting rejected by so many institutions is tough, you can’t simply tell someone to get over it. IMO you have every reason to be angry because you honestly seem like a hard worker who is willing to make changes.
Tell you what, if you work hard in your first year of college, I’m sure that you can transfer to a school of your choice. Two of the schools you listed (Emory, UNC) have actually had historically higher rates for transfers than for freshman admits. I’m sure you can look into other schools for transfer like UVA, Cornell, Rice, Wash U, and many others which are pretty transfer friendly for the most part, and great schools for your major. The fact that you are going to TCNJ means that you will be in a smaller environment where you can build excellent relationships with your teachers, meaning you can get valuable research and/or shadowing, and you can get great letters of rec. Show an improvement of grades as well as develop good relationships with your teachers and I think you can transfer out with great success. I wish you the best of luck, and I know you’ll succeed wherever you go.
TCNJ is no consolation prize. It is very VERY well respected especially, in Bio, chem as well as Bus, Ed and pt not to mention RN. Every opportunity will be available to you if you make the most of the institution and perform. make no mistake, it will be very competitive! having said that, our S was a top student in finance and was offered several highly sought after internships with big 4, and top IB–(in fact , the exact same jobs offered to two of his friends at schools on your list) so we are completely happy with the results of TCNJ ,