<p>Does anyone know how difficult it is to get accepted to this school? My d has 4.25 gpa 1260 SAT, hope to pick that up next test. Is it a nice school? we are going there Saturday. She loves the way it looks online. Also she is a 4 year varsity player, and a 2 year club player so hopefully looking to make volleyball team, and since this is a div II school hoping to get some athletic money too. Any help out there?</p>
<p>Have you checked out the “sticky” of Trip Reports, the top thread in the Parents Forum? You will find many writeups of various colleges done by CC members. Just dive in and keep reading. It’s addictive!</p>
<p>Another great resource is the Fiske Guide to Colleges 2007. If there is a flaw with the book, it’s that Fiske makes every college seem appealing! But it is the book I go to most often. He also gives lots of statistics, compiled in a handy way for easy comparison.</p>
<p>Online, try collegeboard.com’s free College Matchmaker. I’m sure your daughter already has an account, but you can make one up for yourself as a parent. You can hunt for colleges that fit her criteria, and then save them on a list. The nice thing is that once you’re looking at a particular college, all the info is right there: admissions statistics, financial aid info, what majors are offered, etc. The part I like the best is the “Find Similar” function. So if you like a school and want to find more that are somewhat in the same ballpark, you can easily get suggestions.</p>
<p>The site princetonreview.com has a similar feature.</p>
<p>I’m sure you will be a great help to your daughter, as I’m trying to be! Best of luck!</p>
<p>Best of luck to you also</p>
<p>Is your daughter in the top 10-15% of her class? If so, with those SAT scores she should be very competitive for admission. Check out this information from the Stonehill site (under admissions, just the facts) regarding the stats of applicants offered admission for the class of 2009.
<a href=“http://www.stonehill.edu/admissions/pages/just_facts.htm[/url]”>http://www.stonehill.edu/admissions/pages/just_facts.htm</a></p>
<p>My son visited Stonehill several times last year including an overnight. He also attended classes. He loved the school and it was one of his top choices (although he ended up applying ED to a LAC that was stronger in his major). The campus is very beautiful and the school has a good reputation in many academic areas. The admissions office provides a booklet that offers example of financial aid and merit packages based on parent income and the student’s stats. We were told that for the class of 2010 much of the athletic scholarship dollars were going to football (reviving the program) so there were few dollars for other male athletes – but that might actually help your daughter. As you may know, there are rules about balancing male/female athletic scholarship $s. Best of luck!</p>
<p>I just did a drive through of the campus two days ago. i would have liked to do the tour but it was 6:30 by the time we arrived and everything was closed. But I can tell you my impressions from the car view.</p>
<p>Absolutely beautiful campus, nicer than on the website. Complete w/ pond, bridge, lawns and landscaping ,woody hilly areas. The buildings were ivy and brick coligiate looking. Catholic statues and crosses among gardens. Huge new football field( lots of construction going on) The town itself looked ok. Nothing too exciting but nice( although we really only saw the immediate area to and from the highway) Applebees and chain stores but not much of a town.</p>
<p>The viewbook available on admissions steps advertises on the cover page that “if you are considering schools like Boston college, Fairfield,university of Scranton than you will want to add stone Hill to your list” That seems about right to me. We saw Boston college
and Fairfield last yr w/ my D when she was looking, we looked at many small Catholic Colleges, Stone Hill looks like it could be a scaled down version of Boston College with top academics but less selectivity.</p>
<p>My s is a rising jr in hs, I will keep this one in mind for him. Good luck to your daughter!</p>
<p>I can give you my own personal impression (as one who applied to Stonehill, was accepted, loved the place, and then threw it off his list once the FinAid came in).</p>
<p>-The campus itself is goregeous. Absolutely beautiful. I did a tour on a sweltering summer day (I hate heat) and I still had fun. The tour, while definitely aided by a very very nice campus, was a blast with fun and energetic tour guides who gave both information about the campus and actual life as a college student, which was a really nice change. If you get a chance to, take an official tour as you will hit most of the major places and hopefully have fun. Loads of fun.</p>
<p>-I was relieved to see that the campus integrated a lot of the tress and shrubbery for shade purposes. There are spaces out there for quiet time.</p>
<p>-The dorms were about average for what I saw. They were clean, a nice little lounge area that was surrounded by rooms, decent size. Nothing amazing or huge, but pretty standard.</p>
<p>I can give more details of my impressions, but I’ll give my experience on admissions and such.</p>
<p>I’ll just give my stats at the time</p>
<p>-3.4 GPA on a 4.4 scale (approximately on both counts), it was on a pretty steep incline (not a huge one, but I gained .2 points over the course of the year, B student to A student really).</p>
<p>-1460 GPA (v/m) as the high score on two attempts.</p>
<p>-Very weak EC’s (a couple years of yearbook as the highlight)</p>
<p>-Strong central Common App essay and oddball interests (baseball simulation leagues for interest)</p>
<p>I was accepted regular decision. Many students that were around my caliber (more ECs, or sports, or slightly worse grades, or worse SATs, etc.) were accepted and there were a few denied. I know one girl applied ED, was deferred and then accepted in the spring (still went). The two girls who I know are going there are two impressive people who I have positive impressions of in my HS times. Also, they curiously rejected a student that I considered the smartest of the applicant pool, although now that I think about it, his ECs may have been non-existant due to a poor first year. Still, his GPA was higher than mine, but his SATs lower.</p>
<p>I got a 5k merit scholarship, but even then, it was too expensive for me to really consider (I want to say around 15k per after everything, most other schools in the 8k-10k range, and we were having financial struggles with a very generous package). Basically, I would have had an EXTREMELY difficult decision if it was closer to the other package (same with Marlboro College), but it wasn’t, so it was done.</p>
<p>what school did you choose, and what other schools did you look at and could you tell me something about them if you do not mind. I really do appreciate all the help I can get.</p>
<p>Fordham- both Lincoln Center campus and the Rose Hill campus.
Fairfield CT
Sacred Heart CT
Salve Regina RI
St Johns Queens,NY
Emmanuel Boston MA
Boston College</p>
<p>Boston College was the holy grail of all, but a bit full of themselves. My D was not accepted w/ 1300 SAT and above 4.0 GPA.</p>
<p>She was accepted at the rest w/ scholarships offered.
Of all the rest on the list Salve Regina is the best. If you like the idea of living in mansions by the sea in a quaint and cozy summer tourist town riding around town in trolleys than you will like Salve. Newport is a beautiful summer town. The school itself tho as far as academics pales much in comparison to some others on the list.</p>
<p>For academic strength I’d stick with Fordham. Of course if you are a sports fanatic with a strong academic background and high SAT score go for Boston College.</p>