What schools should I look at? NJ Resident, 92 UW GPA, 1280 SA, undecided major, maybe public health or political science

[thumper1]

I’m going to suggest that you read the following thread. It is very very important that you have sure things for admission that you like on your application list. This story is older, and college acceptances have only become MORE competitive. The student in this story was a NMF, class Val, excellent ECs, excellent LORs, excellent GPA and SAT scores. No one expected that he would NOT get accepted anywhere…but that is what happened his senior year of high school

You don’t want this to be what happens to you.

Read the whole thread.

No Acceptances: One Kid's Story - A year later...

Part I of III Sorry this is long but some posters have pm’d me about our story and I thought it would be of help to re-tell it. One year ago I posted a question here on CC – “We’re Picking up the Pieces …but what went wrong?” My son had applied to eight schools, been rejected at five and waitlisted at three. I expected to get a few responses and see the thread disappear deep into the archives of CC. Little did I imagine that one year later, not only would I still be posting about the progress, but an entire cyber family on College Confidential would still be going through it with me. For the benefit of those of you starting out on college applications, or – hopefully not-- for those of you who may find yourselves in our position, this is the story of one kid’s worst case scenario and how he made the best of it. I’m re-telling it here by way of my own original posts and those of other CC posters whose advice was so vital to the journey. Thanks to all of you! My original post o…