<p>Princeton Review says that the average GPA for USC admits is 3.9, but that’s got to be weighted. I don’t know that 3.26 would be out of the question; note however that the median SAT is just under 1200 (and that the city is spelled Columbia - Colombia is a country in South America 
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<p>I can certainly appreciate that a pad in Hilton Head with a car and boat sounds like fun, but commuting 10-15 miles to a commuter college from there really isn’t college - it’s just amassing course credits. I think that you need to look for colleges at which you’d be excited to be a fully-participating citizen of the campus.</p>