<p>Hello! I’m a junior in High School and trying to figure out where I should apply since I will be applying early everywhere. Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Based on my info and what I’m looking for in a school, what colleges would be good matches for me?
stats and high school info:
-88.5 GPA
-1620 SAT (First one, taking another after tutoring)
-4 years of cheerleading (2 JV and 2 Varsity), two years of Varsity crew
-100+ hours of community service
- 3 College courses
Wants:
-Location: Southern region, Arizona, or California (I will consider something in the Northeast as a last resort)
-Lots of School spirit
-Good business program with a high job placement rate
-Around $25K in tuition per year (I have residency in NY)</p>
<p>I dont know of many SUNY with alot of school spirit. Maybe Stony Brook but that is a reach with your stats
Arizona State, University of Arizona, Lousiana State university, Florida State University all matches
UNiversity of Sandiego, UNiversity of Georgia, University of South Carolina, North Carolina State as highmatch-reach </p>
<p>With these stats, you won’t get merit, and you don’t qualify for in-state at any of the southwestern schools, so it’s going to be tough finding a school within the 25k tuition limit. You’re going to have to compromise on some things.
Here’s a pretty comprehensive list of potential schools, but run the Net Price Calculator on each and contact the coaches (wrt cheerleading AND crew).
For example, you’d have Whittier, it’s in CA, decent school pride, you could probably cheer there too, but you’d need major FA to make it within budget.
You can apply to a few CSUs, such as CPP, Chico, Sonoma, perhaps SDSU as a reach.
<a href=“http://www.csupomona.edu/~cba/index.shtml”>http://www.csupomona.edu/~cba/index.shtml</a>
Those are within budget, good business programs, and in CA, but don’t have much school spirit/are heavily commuter and the majors are impacted.
ASU has a lot of school spirit (and a lot of other things that distract undergrads away from graduating on time) and its tuition fits within your budget (barely), but its COA is 40k. There’s ASU-Lake Havasu that’s cheaper, but there’s not much school spirit and you’d probably want to transfer to the Tempe business school after 1 year or two so the main reason for lake Havasu (besides the sweet surroundings) would be to save money since it’d cut costs in half.
UN-R is Southwestern and within budget but no school spirit and one of the worst state universities in the nation (although better than UN-Las Vegas).
Pacific Lutheran is a great school, would likely be interested in your ability at crew, but I don’t know what their financial aid would be like.
If you’re good at crew, you could get recruited at Humboldt, a CSU, with a scholarship (they’re national D2 champions) but 1° learn about its “vibe”, perhaps visit, since its pot culture is rather pronounced and 2° it’s in northern California, so not quite southwestern climes.
UC San Diego has crew D2 and they’d be okay with your GPA, but you’ll need to score way higher on the SAT - it’s a top tier UC and if you’d re eligible for an athletic scholarship costs may be within budget, but there’s not much school spirit.
Seattle Pacific and Western Washington both have crew, too, but may not be Southern enough for you.
In the Southeast, Nova Southeastern, Barry, and Rollins are all good for crew and Rollins has a great business school (but it’s another school with a drug culture).
In NY State, William Smith and Ithaca both recruit for crew, with strong regional reputation. HWS has school spirit, Ithaca not sure (ask on the college forum) but I do know their B-school is AACSB accredited.
A good business school in a very nice school (friendliest staff!) is Susquehanna, in Pennsylvania.</p>
<p>Hmmmm… Not sure about 25K tuition or a good business program. However, if you are looking for an overall good school with good team spirit, I would suggest USC. I have a relative who attended there and now has an extremely successful career, so it’s definitely a good school for jobs. And as far as team spirit, you can’t get any better than USC. Help me out? 
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<p>^ Assuming the USC you mention is in CA, to get to $25K/year the OP would need to be a NMF which won’t be happening with those stats. USC is ~$50K for tuition.</p>
<p>Question? $25K is your maximum for tuition only? If you are OOS for Arizona and California, you would also need to include room and board which amounts to about $12-13K or are you including it in your $25K cost? The Cal States have a much cheaper price tag for OOS, around $30K total and SDSU, Cal State Fullerton, Chico State and Cal Poly SLO would be good choices in California versus the UC’s which would cost $55K total and your GPA/Test scores are too low for many of the UC’s (4.0 GPA/2000+ SAT). For California LAC’s, you might look into University of La Verne, Redlands, Occidental, LLMU but you would need to retake the SAT for a higher score. ASU is a good option, but as stated above the price tag is above your $25K. </p>