Looking for any college that would actually take me...

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<p>I’m getting tired of posting chances threads and having the responses all be like “deny, deny, deny, deny, possible, deny deny,” so I think I need to find some better matches.</p>

<p>I’m looking for a large school (15,000+ students), and location does not matter. I want a good communications department, and a good academic reputation. I want the “Real college experience,” and not a place where everyone goes home on weekends. And a nice campus.</p>

<p>But my stats are less than great:</p>

<p>White guy from Seattle, Washington
1 Parent attended college
GPA Unweighted: 2.95 (Math kills me. I’ve flunked and retaken a couple of honors math classes to help my GPA. I get A’s and B’s in everything else.)
GPA Weighted: 87.8 (on a % scale for some reason)
ACT: 27 (12 writing)
CLASS RANK: 57th %ile. Top 43%.
GRADE TREND: Freshman: 2.8ish, Soph: 3.5ish, Junior:likely 2.6ish w/ better 2nd semester</p>

<p>Classes were pretty hard…
SOPH CLASSES: Pre-Calculus, AP U.S. History (3), AP Psychology (4), Honors English, Honors Spanish 4, AP Biology (3), AP Euro (2)</p>

<p>JUNIOR CLASSES: AP Statistics, AP Gov, AP Microecon, Positive Leadership, AP English, AP Spanish Lang, AP Chemistry</p>

<p>SENIOR CLASSES: Calculus, Comm. College Economics, Comm. College English, Comm. College Spanish, AP Physics, Comparative Religions, International Relations</p>

<p>Extra-Currcular Activities:</p>

<li><p>Cross Country (5 years)
1a. I’m a captain next year =]
1b. Competing at the Varsity Level
1c. Lettered freshman year</p></li>
<li><p>Boy’s Swimming (2-3 years)
2a. JV Level, this is more just for fun
2b. Managed the team freshman year</p></li>
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<p>3.Track & Field (6 years)
3a. Varsity Pole Vaulter
3b. #1 Male PV’er on the team (a.k.a. the ONLY male PV’er on the team.)
3c. 400m open/ 4X400, not so good at this</p>

<li><p>Choir (8 years)
4a. Member of Motet, the school’s most prestigous choir
4b. Traveled to Austrailia to Perform in July 2008
4c. Tenor Leader</p></li>
<li><p>Musical (1 year)
5a. Performed in the school musical “Charlie & The Chocolate Factory” sophomore year, and never did it again because I didn’t have time</p></li>
<li><p>Tutor (2 years so far)
6a. 6 Spanish Hours for youth service
6b. 4 Algebra 1 Hours for youh service…
6c. 3 Geometry Hours…
6d. 18 Algebra 2 Hours…
6e. 2 Chemistry Hours…</p></li>
<li><p>Junior Class Squadron
7a. Historian
7b. 2 hours weekly</p></li>
<li><p>Part Time Job since July 08 @ McCafe’ (15-20 hrs a week)</p></li>
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<p>I think I’ll have 1 rec and it’ll be good.</p>

<p>…Does anyone have any suggestions? I’m open to anything. And only places you think I have a greater than 50% chance of getting into, please?</p>

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<p>Just out of curiosity, why did you take such rigorous classes when you weren’t doing well in them? If you took just 1-2 AP’s, but then did extremely well in standard college prep courses, your GPA would be in much better condition.</p>

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<p>You’ve probably got a good shot at Washington State.</p>

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<p>Where you live might be an advantage for admissions in the East. I’d take a try at Syracuse University. Your class rank is a killer so you’re going to need your first semester senior grades, so kill the hard stuff and get A’s. Also retake the ACT, I’m guessing that 29 will be the magic number at Syracuse but perhaps someone that knows more about the program can chime in on that. </p>

<p>Good Luck.</p>

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<p>Well, I did fine in all my AP classes with the exception of the math ones, in which I got D’s and F’s. And I really don’t know if there’ll be and F’s lingering on my transcript.</p>

<p>Outside of Math, I basically got a B in every other AP, and an A in AP and Honors English.</p>

<p>I stayed in the Math ones because I was an idiot and kept telling myself that “id do fine.”</p>

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<p>Bah. Einstein flunked math as well. Let us know when you perfect the universal theory.</p>

<p>You’d likely have no problem getting into 70% of the colleges and universities around the country. I assume you’ve been loading your apps with all stretch schools. This isn’t a good plan.</p>

<p>Go to your favorite college search engine and put together a list of 4 schools where a 27 is in the top 50% of the acceptance range. And then find 2 schools where it is in the top 25%. You’ve already exhausted your stretch schools, so don’t bother with finding any more.</p>

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<p>Temple University is a good school that’s not incredibly selective, and has a pretty good communications program. Not sure if it’s what you’re looking for, but it seems like it may be a good fit.</p>

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<p>I second Temple as well as PItt</p>

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<p>Take a look at West Virginia University.</p>

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<p>Maybe Marist College (in New York state).</p>

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<p>I agree. Temple came to my mind also. It’s not very selective… I believe you have a good chance there.</p>

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<p>Is that website supposed to have a point?</p>

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<p>Rochester Institute of Technology
Robert Morris
Pace University
Shippensburg
Arizona State
West Chester
University of Rhode Island
University of Hartford
Kean University (maybe a suitcase?)
Univer</p>

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<p>Indiana
Kansas
Iowa
South Carolina</p>

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<p>Minnesota-Twin Cities
Wisconsin-madison
arizona state
university of arizona</p>

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<p>UW Madison is a reach.</p>