<p>im currently applying to usc and that was the first place i wanted to go to but im afraid that i wont get in…NYU is equally competitive and my scores ARE lower than most people’s although people have gotten in with them. it’s just what are the chances…like one in a billion…</p>
<p>so heres where im applying…any more suggestions? oh and i have an 1800 on sat’s and 4.1 weighted gpa 3.73 unweighted. 30 units of colleges classes, first generation, no legacy, 4 years work exp. and 4 years hospital volunteer. </p>
<p>major: neuroscience</p>
<p>colleges:</p>
<p>usc
claremont
pepperdine
vanderbilt
brown
occidental
northwestern
columbia-maybe? any opinions?
chapman
loyola marymount
USF</p>
<p>damn u have those stats and u didnt get accepted?! alot of usc students tend to go to columbia for grad for some reason…
but out of ur list ones similar to usc i would say pepperdine or even ucla haha</p>
<p>well, i can tell you exactly why you didnt get in…your test scores are horrible. you failed to even break 2000, which it typically a bench mark for the better state schools. Why would you even waste your time applying to USC and especially NYU…your 4.1 gpa is inflated and will quickly be discredited by any admission office with brains. good luck and lower you standards</p>
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<p>Unfortunately college****** is right…since you failed to break 2000 on the SAT, it’s going to be a tough road to get into any top 30 schools. The lackluster SAT discredits your high GPA. Because the SAT is the only way for colleges to standardize anything when it comes to an application, you need to show that you can compete at high levels against other students. </p>
<p>Good luck…as a student at USC, I think you’re going to have a difficult time getting in with an 1800. Perhaps you’ll be a spring admit?</p>
<p>You’re good for LMU, Santa Clara, USF, Chapman
a maybe for Pepperdine (but most likely yes)
a no for Claremont, most UCs (maybe not Davis and Irvine) Vanderbilt
and a definite no for any Ivies and Northwestern</p>
<p>alright…U actually know what your talking about lol soo what about being in the bottom 25%? would that not apply to me? or is that just for special cases like sports scholarship kids? it kind of sucks…ive seen stats where kids got into usc but thats probly rare and they wrote a good essay. i think mines good but probably not good enough lol. and i think i describe more about my life and not enough of how it has changed me. unfortunately i submitted it already. but i can change it for my other apps…</p>
<p>Just be sure you have safties that you love on your list. Remember, 25% of accepted students come from that “bottom” 25%, so you never know! Try not to pin your hopes on any one school, submit your applications to a list of reaches, matches, and safeties - and then enjoy the rest of your senior year. Good luck!</p>
<p>thanx! i DO kinda feel like its a waste to apply to the 2 ivies but its only 2 and im applyin once. its not like every year or anything. i had my hopes on nyu lol but those were kinda shattered. jk : ] ill go there eventually</p>
<p>I hate to throw cold H2O on your Ivy hopes, but I really think you are wasting your time applying because of the combination of having both low SAT scores a AND low UW GPA compared to most ACCEPTED students at those colleges. Since college applications ARE so competitive, especially this year, I think that the rejection from NYU should be used as a wakeup call for you, to help you focus on finding schools you would be happy at AND where your stats are in the 75th% of accepted students.</p>
<p>“a no for most UCs (maybe not Davis and Irvine)”</p>
<p>hmmm i don’t agree. berkeley and ucla have accepted quite a few people with 1800 sats. davis, san diego, santa barbara, and irvine have definitely accepted quite a few people with 1800 sats too. but besides those, you are pretty much a shoo-in for uc riverside, uc santa cruz, and you’re basically guaranteed into uc merced, if any of those interested you/if you applied to any of those. so i’d say you have at least some shot at all of the uc’s and you’re almost definitely going to get into at least one uc if you applied to them all. good luck!</p>
<p>…gosh, I guess I’d better tell my kids (one grad and one attending) that because they didn’t break 2000 SATs and one of their gpas didn’t pass muster that they aren’t (or graduate from) USC. (One did have a high gpa.) My husband interviews for one of the Ivies…probably not…BUT he has recommended kids that he thought were outstanding who’s stats stank by current standards. To be fair they did go to VERY competitive prep schools but they had special qualities. Husband has dinged one kid with PERFECT stats because he was clueless as to where he was applying. Kid thought Penn and Harvard were in the country. (And no, he didn’t mean USA)</p>
<p>The wonderful thing about USC’s admission process is that they look at each candidate and what they bring to the table.</p>
<p>To add to whitecadillac’s post, it is useful to look at the “middle group” of UCs detailed admit charts. Because of the ease of applying to multiple campuses and the selectivity of UCB, UCLA and even UCSD, the middle three UCs are used as backups to those top three by the state’s top students. This tends to skew the “stats” for those middle UCs artificially high.</p>
<p>UCI is a perfectly acceptable “match” school for you. If things don’t go your way and you are not admitted to any of the UCs to which you applied, as a UC-eligible California student you are guaranteed a place at a UC. You would then be placed in the referral pool and offered a place at a UC that still has room - most often that turns out to be UCM, and sometimes UCSC or UCR - even if you did not apply to the referral pool campus. <a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/compreview/studygroup/Tab6.pdf[/url]”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/compreview/studygroup/Tab6.pdf</a> So you have an automatic safety even if you did not apply to one!</p>
<p>Try very hard not to identify any school as your “dream.” Put in your applications and when the results come, choose from the schools that accept you and forget about the ones that didn’t. Best of luck.</p>
<p>I’d say definitely apply to Occidental. I’m applying there this year as well and from what I’ve heard it’s a real up-and-coming school thats got great academics in a good location.</p>
<p>At least, thats what my research has lead me to believe!</p>
<p>Why the SAT score hate? USC DOES accept people with SAT scores in the 1800s - like a previous poster said, there’s that bottom 25% - 1/4th of students! - whose scores are below the middle 50%. You have a solid GPA, so be thankful for that. USC will be a reach but it’s certainly NOT impossible to get in, especially if you produce an awesome essay, and good EC’s. The Ivy Leagues will be incredibly tough to get into. I refuse to use the word impossible.</p>