We live in a world of grade inflation. Your grades likely put you just below the middle of your class. Given that you come from a solid high school, that usually means you come from a fairly affluent town. That probably makes your SAT’s in the middle of your class as well.
Where do kids just in the middle of your class go to college? I say Penn State if they have strong activities and applications.
Yea penn state, rutgers, i would like to think that my ec’s are better than normal and also my essay?
ECs are a nice to have. They don’t overcome academics.
In the end, stop worrying. Pick schools you really want but 2 need to be assured.
U Cincy is and the outcomes I saw were impressive.
You can keep hoping but you are just stressing yourself.
If you have two assured and affordable, you have zero to worry about.
I think you get U Del but if I’m wrong, it’s why you have a safety.
You’ll just keep going in circles. You need to get apps done vs hoping someone agrees with what you want them to.
You’ll know after you apply and hear decisions. If for some reason all go against you, that’s why you have the two safeties. Problem solved.
Maybe Rutgers belongs on the low end of the reaches, but you did say finance. Truly nothing has changed though… your high reaches are still not happening. you might pull a reach and I hope you do. and most people go to a target, but maybe you do a tad better. The end.
Very confusing, isn’t it?
It doesn’t really matter if schools are reaches or not. You can apply to as many schools at the high end of your list as you want - ten, twenty, thirty . . . Have fun with it. Dream big. You’ll find out the results when you hear back with the results of the school’s decisions.
The single most important school(s) on your list is your safety(ies). You should have at least one school on your list - preferably row or three - where admission is a slam dunk, a school which you can afford, AND where you’d be happy to go. That’s where you should be putting your energy. There are plenty of terrific schools which fly under the radar but whose alumni do very well in their careers and earn high salaries. The fact that they’re not household names is irrelevant.
FTR, for Penn State, 2/3 decision = GPA×rigor. I was asked to your thread and spent quite a bit of time explaining exactly what you can do to increase your odds of being admitted to University Park vs. Abington, if that’s what you want. I briefly listed the key benefits of each option. (Even if you already submitted your app, you can still modify some things like alternate campus, major, fall/summer).
Unfortunately, a nice essay and good activities won’t tip the scales if you want UP (they’re only considered for borderline candidates) but you can consider Abington a safety. 
Has your STARS/SRAR been received&processed?
What does your list look like now?
What do you think of the list in post 47?
U Cincinnati, SUNY Albany, SUNY New Paltz would all be good additions. Have you been able to explore their website? Are you considering applying? (SUNY applications are free this week.)
I second this advice. A relative of mine ended up doing something similar at a different state flagship. Like the OP, his weakness was in his GPA and foreign language. He has ended up with an outstanding career in trading, some based domestically, some out of Geneva Switzerland. Loves his job and makes substantially more money than his siblings, including the doctors.
That’s a great story for OP. Too many kids tie career success or non- success to the college they get into and while averages may show that, everyone is an individual and successes and non successes abound from every school.
In the end it’s the person.
@TheRealMango just checking in - are you on track with apps? Can you update us on the list?
Hi, sorry I haven’t texted back it has been a while… I heard back from 5 schools and got into all of them. Drexel, penn state, rowan, njit and udel all have a good amount of merit aid given! Waiting for the rest of my desicions to come fingers crossed!
Any achieve budget ? Congrats !!
Congratulations on all of your admits; that’s terrific news!
Which major/campus were you accepted to for Penn State?
Congratulations 
Fingers crossed on financial aid 
I got in econ main campus
I think we are planning under 60k I am applying to alot of scholorships/loans and i have merit aid. I am really nervous Kelley is coming out on thursday…
With $60K and you have merit aid, there’s no need to worry. Apply to schools that cost less.
Anything you can study at Kelley you can study elsewhere too.
Good luck.
Opened at the OP’s request.
I just want to type over here for anyone junior/senior stumbling through my post in the future.
In my experience, this process sucked so much. Not only did I get criticized/belittled by my parents (dad especially) about my stats and college results, I felt like I deserved everything that happened to me. Honestly, I’m writing this on 4/15, and I wasn’t sure where I was going to college before yesterday (I had options, but was happy with none).
All I will say is this: people will say everything to you. They will pull you down, ■■■■ on everything you did, and I know it gets to a point where you think all the work you did was futile (I for sure felt that way). Only YOU know what you went through. YOU did all this work to get to this position.
Honestly, to this day, I don’t think my dad congratulated me on a single school I was accepted to—he would just continue to belittle my achievements.
So to anyone that is experiencing this: I AM PROUD OF YOU. Applying to and attending a college is such a huge deal, and you are doing the right thing!!!
Right now, I plan on transferring to an even better school (mostly out of spite to show my parents wrong).
ok so my results:
VT: Accepted
Villanova: Rejected
Wisconson-Madison: Rejected
Pitt: Accepted
UMD: Rejected
UIUC: Rejected
UF: Rejected
Udel: Accepted+scholorship
Stevens: Accepted+Scholorship+istem program
Rutgers: Waitlisted → Accepted (99% commiting there)
Penn State- Accepted (Got summer start for Econ changed it to Data science (I think?) and got fall admission)
IU: Didn’t get into Kelley and I got an email saying I can’t transfer AO also said the same thing (this one hurt)
Bentley: Accepted + Scholorship
I applied all EA
idk if anyone even is going to see this lol but know that everything will work out. Honestly I was so annoyed when anyone would say this to me because I thought “easy for you to say” but it really does.
Rooting for yall.
Those are FANTASTIC results. Every opportunity you got - Pitt, U, VT Pamplin, UDel - whoever I missed - those are great gets. And Bentley’s outcomes are up there with most every school in the country.
Hold your head high. You did very well. Go get em at Rutgers.