St. John Fisher College academics

Parent100
Fri, 29 Aug 2014 16:41:12 +0000

My daughter is a rising senior at Saint John Fisher and has been quite happy with her academic experience. Her ACT/SAT test scores were not as high as yours but she is a serious student, has worked very hard and done well. I believe she has found the level of challenge to be appropriate and the professors to be supportive. Overall I think she would give the academics at Fisher an A.

You are wise to not be too concerned with a college’s perceived prestige. At the undergrad level, you should look closely at a few important statistics such as four and six year graduation rates and the freshman retention rate. These are the best objective indicators of quality academics and Fisher performs well when measured against them. Fisher is also quite generous with merit aid and with your scores, assuming your GPA is similarly impressive, you would most certainly be awarded Fisher’s top merit scholarship. That said, Fisher does not offer any full tuition scholarships and with your scores (and hopefully very good GPA) there are other good schools at which you could be in the running for a scholarships more generous that those offered at Fisher. For this reason I would encourage you to seek schools which offer quality academics, like Fisher, as well as lots of merit $$.

Best of luck.