<p>EC’s:
100+ Key Club hours
100+ Red Cross hours
Founder/President of North Corea Freedom Association</p>
<p>Essay topics (for uc’s but they are likely fairly universal):
struggling in my sophomore year
creation of the club North Corea Freedom Association (NCFA)</p>
<p>Pros:
My latest GPA (junior year second semester) was 3.3
Will have great recommendations (my club adviser + us history teacher)
Three AP’s my senior which I am confident to receive a 3.5+</p>
<p>Why do you need a private school? I can think of a lot of good 4-year publics within your range. </p>
<p>I dropped out my senior year (unplanned) so I did spend quite a bit of time looking at options in case my preferred choices did not come through. Your SAT being at the 95% range and the fact that you have done SAT II’s at all, in addition to your hours, make you a very strong applicant at many branch campuses of state schools. Many offer AA’s and allow students who do well to switch to Bacc. status. You have a good chance at getting accepted at a PSU campus for AA (I know they do not consider residency and your scores are easily in range) and UMass if they don’t care about residency. Financial aid may suck, though.</p>
<p>St. John’s College! I forgot about that one, but it’s small. There’s a St. John’s University in Queens I know of which is much larger but not as reputable. Maybe Dickinson.
I am assuming you are interested in transferring after your first year, correct?</p>
<p>UN-L has 17% in the bottom half so that may be possible as well. U of Missouri at Columbia has 15%. Hofstra also has similar stats but is a lot friendlier to OOS. These are well-known. You should find CB’s college search helpful.</p>
<p>It’s most definitely possible after a year or even a semester, even to the Ivies. There’s no requirement that you enter as a Junior; you only hear about it often because so many go to community colleges then transfer when they’re done.</p>
<p>You can forget about St. John’s U if its religious affiliation bothers you. Western Carolina U is another possibility.</p>
<p>I recommend you spend some time on Collegeboard’s college search and look up schools you’re interested in. Some will even have SAT/GPA calculators to determine your chances.</p>
<p>You should really check out the CSUs as well.</p>
<p>ASU (usnews 124) and U of Arizona are very well known, have good academics, (certainly good enough for the first two years if you want to switch to a “non-mediocre” school), and are definitely in your range but they’re publics. Since they’re large are accept LOTS of OOS students you’d have lots of resources, etc. UNO is also a good school but I’m not sure whether the low OOS population is due to selectivity or low interest.</p>
<p>hmmm…the thing is i mean, do i really have to be catholic to go to that university? i really personally wouldn’t mind as long as they don’t try to convert me or something haha.</p>
<p>do all universities hold the potential for a student to transfer to an ivy league school? i never really thought of going to an ivy league, but im down if i haul some ass in college haha.</p>
<p>Just a suggestion… but youmight wat to consider a slight attidtude adjustment. You might want to refer to the schools as 2nd or 3rd or ever 4th tier… not “mediocre”</p>
<p>Catholic schools DO NOT try to convert anybody. 99% of religious schools or schools with a religious affiliation or founding do not try to convert you. They may require you select a couple of theology courses as part of the core requirement, but often those are comparative religions stuff and really rather interesting. </p>
<p>What caused your struggle sophomore year? IF there is a plausible explanation then deal with it in the applications. Schools dont want to guess. </p>
<p>University of Portland, Seattle University, Seattle Pacific University, Whitworth College, Western Washington University, Loyola Marymount (LA), University of San Francisco, Santa Clara University come to mind. But you MUST do well in Senior year to prove yourself.</p>
<p>Try the SUNYs. You’re Korean, right? Fun fact: SUNY Stony Brook is ranked higher internationally than Seoul University, the top university in Korea.</p>
<p>eh i dont think thats how it works… i know for the state universities of california its harder for OOS students to get in because they put in state students first.</p>
<p>As mentioned above, you are not eligible to apply to any of the UCs. The good news is that you are from California, so with your GPA and test scores you are eligible (assuming you will have your CSU A-G requirements by graduation: [CSUMentor</a> - Plan for College - High School Students - High School Subject Requirements](<a href=“Cal State Apply | CSU”>Freshman: Admission Requirements | CSU) ) to apply to the 23 California State University Campuses. You would have an excellent chance at admission at at least 20 of them. Find out about them here: [url=<a href=“Cal State Apply | CSU”>http://www.csumentor.edu/]CSUMentor[/url</a>] .</p>
<p>You shouldn’t go to college if you don’t know that you can spell Korea both ways and still be correct. jk I didn’t know that either until this thread. But I’d always refrain from making statements about who should go to college.</p>
<p>I would strongly advise that you don’t go to a mediocre private university. To be honest, some of these accept anyone with a brain and are just looking for your money. Furthermore, I don’t think they’ll necessarily help you foster excellent study skills which are a must if you wish to transfer to a more competitive/prestigious school and be sucessful. If I were you I’d look into CSU’s since you’re not UC eligible. I really think that going all the way across the country to college is a plan for disaster. You seem like a very bright student who has some “issues” that impact your work in school. I think that going far away to college will likely magnify them. Also, CSU’s are good feeder schools into the top UC’s, provided you do well of course. I think this would be the best venue to get a “prestigious degree” from a “non-mediocre” school. If you want to get out of the state, but not be too far from home, I’d look into University of Arizona and ASU. They have good academics, it’s just that you have to avoid being sucked into the “party hard” culture at those schools in order to keep you away from things that can negatively impact your grades. Good Luck on your college quest!</p>