<p>Kathiep - Congradulations on your D - you mean we have to go through this again in 4 years for Grad school!</p>
<p>Thanks to everyone for your good wishes and more importantly your words of encouragement and great information throughout the process.</p>
<p>The good thing about grad school, at least for us, is that we had nothing to do with it. My daughter graduated college in 2007. She told us she was going to apply to grad school and then told us what colleges she applied to. She did ask for help with the FAFSA and we talked over her choices but that was it. Much less stressful!</p>
<p>OMG…kowalwcz above is a new poster today and all ten of his/her posts are to ask us to take a survey…</p>
<p>spam? .</p>
<p>looks like someone removed him :D</p>
<p>MaryAnn, </p>
<p>Congrats on your son getting into Marist. I have a niece on their waiting-list. Also, I don’t post here because I’m not knowledgeable about many of these schools but I’ve always considered this the most supportive of the threads - filled with helpful and friendly advice. Cheers to you all.</p>
<p>ctyankee, I agree but wanted to add that I don’t/didn’t know most of these schools before reading this thread. It’s great because no matter where my S decides to look at colleges, I have an idea of where he should start. What I am trying to say is feel free to post regardless and I hope your niece gets of the WL if Marist is her 1st choice.</p>
<p>Mary Ann, I’d like to send you a PM but your mailbox is full. Can you clear out some of it? I’ve found that saving interesting posts in a word document is helpful.</p>
<p>I’m really grateful for all the sharing on this thread. There are so many colleges that I never heard of before reading this because after having two other “B” kids, I thought I knew most of the ones within a few hours of me!</p>
<p>I’m not a parent but a student in this range, and its so hard to find colleges that you know your gonna get into. It feels like colleges want students to be perfect people who have the perfect scores and grades who wrote best-selling books, and cured cancer.</p>
<p>Kathiep - I emptied my mailbox.
Ctyankee - Good luck to your niece. My son was deferred and then accepted. Your niece should write a letter and ask her guidance councelor to do the same.</p>
<p>toxic, just read a bit of this thread, and you’ll see that you can find lots of schools you have a really good chance of getting into. You don’t need to be perfect by any means. </p>
<p>I’m sure if you describe a little more about yourself, you’ll get plenty of suggestions from the very helpful people here.</p>
<p>toxic: since 2010 is winding down, please let us know what you are looking for…we are all in the thick of this…</p>
<p>toxic - look at my post #3210 - here are some college ideas for you to start with.</p>
<p>Maybe we should create a running list of schools B student were accepted to from Rockville’s post 3210? I don’t know how to cut and paste Rockville’s list in but here are my son’s acceptances not included already in his/her list. Feel free to merge the info or add to it.</p>
<p>Here’s my addition to Rockville:</p>
<p>Allegheny College
Berry College
Earlham College
Guilford College
College of Wooster
Lynchburg College
Ohio Wesleyan University
Hendrix College
UNC-Asheville
UNC-Greensboro</p>
<p>Silly me, It was easier than I thought. Now I can’t remove the other post I just made! Thanks Rockville for the original post.
LOTS of good choices! Feel free to insert schools I missed</p>
<p>Allegheny College
Arizona State
Beloit College
Berry College
Butler University
College of Charleston
Christopher Newport
Clark Univ.
Coastal Carolina
College of Wooster
Cornell College
Earlham College
Eckerd College
FlaglerCollege
Florida Southern
George Mason U
Goucher College
Greensboro College
Guilford College
Hendrix College
High Point U
Hobart and William Smith
Lake Forest College
Loyola New Orleans
Lynchburg College
Marist College
Maryville College
McDaniel College
Oglethorpe University
Ohio University
Ohio Wesleyan
Roanoke College
Rollins College
Shenandoah University
Stevenson University
Towson University
UNC-Asheville
UNC-Greensboro (any of the UNC schools with the exception of UNC Chapel Hill and NC State are possibilities for B students-for NC State, B students can get most except architecture, engineering or design)
Ursinus Colege
Warren Wilson College
Wofford College</p>
<p>Great list , but if any of the 3.0 to 3.3 kids have acceptances to the large “rah rah” state achools – please add! I know the participants in this thread have mostly focused on some of the smaller, lesser known schools — which had really been great to get some of those schools known and looked at. But…there are some (I think the OP’s son) who have been admitted to state flagships…and they are not on the list in post #3255.</p>
<p>UVA, Michigan, UNC-CH, Cal, UCLA are all likely to be beyond our 3.0 - 3.3 kids unless they have a hook. And, there are schools like NC State where certain schools/programs are highly ranked and would likely be out of the reach of our 3.0 - 3.3 kids. On CC…many of the other big state schools seems to only be considered by top kids as honors colllege/financial safeties.</p>
<p>But what about non-honors college, non-high ranking programs - within the School of Arts and Sciences - at flaship places like Ohio State, Michigan State , Arizona, Arizona State, Univ. of Oregon, Oregon State, Univ of South Carolina, Univ of Alabama, Univ of Cincinnati, Indiana University, University of Pittsburgh, UConn etc.? Do we have any posters who are OOS, 3.0 - 3.3 with few or any AP’s and average standardized tests who have been admitted to these schools…and schools like them?</p>
<p>I would add Gonzaga and Univ of Denver to the list. </p>
<p>In addition to some of the schools on your list, my son got into these universities with nice merit money. However, he is right on the “bubble” for this thread. His UW GPA is 88, but reported W is 99. (Our school weights even those classes they call “pre-AP”) Depending on how a college converts to 4 point scale, that’s anywhere from 3.2 to 3.8 - big range! But he had a few D’s and even one F… And his test scores were “meh”. My point is that B students come in many different flavors, and it pays to ASK the college how they calculate GPA from the transcript, and what factors carry the most weight.</p>
<p>If he got nice scholarships from those two schools, I would assume that other kids with lower weighted GPA’s would be acepted. He applied EA to both, and I think that helped. Visiting, interviewing and/or showing interest in other ways also helps for B students.</p>
<p>2boys-Check out the midwestern flagships like Kansas, Mizzou and Oklahoma. All have great rah rah spirit and big time DI sports, good academics and quality life. They also all have published automatic admissions qualifications. A solid B student would meet the requirements for automatic admission each. My S is a very happy soph at KU. Good luck.</p>
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<p>Many students in our area who fall into this group stay instate and attend Rutgers. I do one student who falls into the higher end of these stats and he is going to Ohio State (parents paying full OOS tuition is not an issue for him).</p>
<p>My friend’s D was accepted this year at Michigan State, Iowa and IU with a 3.3 unweighted and a 27 ACT and was out of state for all three (full pay) and will be attending IU. Another friend’s D was accepted this year at Arizona with about a 3.3 (unweighted) and a 25 ACT also out of state and full pay and will be attending.</p>