In terms of enrollment, religiously affiliated colleges enrolled 35.4% of students, while independent non-profit colleges enrolled 45.0% of students and for-profit college enrolled 19.6% of students at private colleges.
Ranking / prestige of college matters in some fields more than others. It matters much more in management consulting and investment banking than it does in nursing, for example.
Its not really that, its more that I only get safety schools. With the exception of uroch. Everyone else gets a variety of schools, from safety to reach.
I feel bad asking you guys to build a list for me, but why would everyone else get the full range and I only get safeties? I would not be upset at all if I got a mix of schools and not just safties
I used those words because thatâs how it was coming across to me. I apologize for that, as now you have provided more context to why you were saying the things that you did.
In a few fields, yes, the prestige of the college matters a lot. For you, in your situation, studying what you want to study? You can go to non-elite places and be happy and successful, for much cheaper. Your personal preference matters, and how you âfitâ at a school is really important to your happiness and success.
Some of the people in your environment seem to have given you inaccurate information about what constitutes success, and what it takes to be successful.
Perhaps being in NYC is important to the issues here. In many states in the US, kids go to their public schools and donât even consider prestigious schools. They go on to be extremely successful in their careers and in the rest of their lives. I hope you can learn more about folks like that and what their trajectories have been.
This is pretty much the truth! Youâre right there!
If you want a mid-size private not in the middle of nowhere and you were interested in BU (large and urban), you might also look at BC, which is a reach for all students in all majors and even more of a reach for nursing. And a reach for you.
Just for your own info, âqualifyingâ for NM merely means you took the PSAT. It does not mean that you will qualify for National Merit Semifinalist in NY. Qualifying for NMSF in NY seems unlikely with a 1350. Current estimate is a selection index of 220.
However, itâs possible that you could qualify for College Boardâs National Hispanic Recognition Program. Demographic checkboxes such as ethnicity are not considered by admissions, though you could still list such an award in the application if you receive it.
Yeah, youâre right, I kinda just wanna know why I have to ask for non-safeties when everyone else in these kinds of threads automatically gets non-safeties
Safeties are the most important list. Safeties are different based on stats and ability to pay. Someone with a 4.0 1600 has different safeties than a 3.0 1100. Someone with no budget has different safeties than someone with a $20,000 a year budget. A CS major has different safeties than an English major. There are majors, like premed (not really a major) where the selectivity of the college doesnât matter. Itâs actually better to be top at your class at a less selective school than being in the middle of the pack at a more selective school.
College Board tells everyone that they âqualify.â What they meant was that you are eligible for the contest. It is very unlikely that your score will be enough for NMSF in NY. Those notifications donât go out until September anyway, so no, they were definitely not saying that you qualified for NMSF.
im signed up for the hispanic recognition program! Praying for the best
Follow up on this award (make sure your counselor does the form) and include this in your application. The award will show up in your Big Futures profile in August and your school might tell you around Aug/Sept.
Yes, itâs important for OP to realize that direct-entry nursing is often a much more difficult admit than some other majors. It really depends on the school.
So a school that would be an overall admissions safety might not be a safety for a nursing major.
I think because most of our experiences are that kids and guidance counselors seem to easily find reaches and targets. Also, due to uncertainty in admissions the past few years that âsafetiesâ are not guarantees anymore.
(And you listed reaches but no safeties in op so thus getting more safeties and targets).
Besides what @Mjkacmom shared about the importance of safeties, your OP seemed to be asking for help with safeties. So it seems it is a misunderstanding of what you were requesting. Nothing more than that.