White male in large NYC public school.
34 Act 90 Weighted GPA
8 AP’s
Few Extracurricular
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Which ones do you like? Also, what does a weighted 90 mean in unweighted terms?
Baruch, SUNY-Buffalo, URichmond, Bucknell . . .
^ Good choices. Also look at Fordham, GWU, UMiami and Northeastern. For some reach schools you might want to look at Georgetown, Boston U, Boston College or Villanova (although I am unclear how these schools would view a 90 weighted average?)
^^^^Agree with above choices (in fact Fordham came to mind immediately). If you would consider an all-business schools look at Bentley and Babson, Not sure what size/locations you would consider but some other ideas offhand are: Fairfield, Pitt, BU, Bucknell, SUNY Binghamton, Lehigh, UMD, UDelaware, IU-Kelly, Muhlenberg. Maybe NYU as a reach.
If you give more specifics as to what you want in a college, finanical restrictions etc. then you would get better suggestions.
I have about an 87 UW GPA and am just outside of the top 25% at a large NYC public school.
What I am looking for is to attend the best highly regarded university I can possibly attend. Other factors about the school are not very important to me.
So far I have been looking at Boston College, Boston University, Fordham, NYU, Northeastern, and University of Michigan but I don’t know if these are realistic schools for me. SUNY Bing and Baruch are my safeties… especially Baruch.
If you like and can afford your safeties – and you can afford the following schools without too much debt, too – go ahead and shoot for aforementioned schools like Georgetown, Michigan, BC, Stern, Bucknell, URichmond, Lehigh, BU, Northeastern, IU-Kelley and Fordham. While the unweighted GPA under 3.6 and being outside the top 10% of your class aren’t going to impress the more selective of those schools, the 34 ACT is impressive.
Read about the schools recommended in this thread – evaluate them based on factors like academics, cost, location/environment, and social vibe – and apply to some of your favorites.
Doesn’t CUNY Baruch have a 28ish percent acceptance rate? I think I ultimately wrote it off for my own search because I didn’t need another reach. Unless they prioritize local students like CA state schools do it seems like a poor safety.
@philbegas Acceptance rate is only one part of the equation because it is a factor of what type of students apply – you also need to look at the class profile. http://www2.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/page-assets/admissions/undergraduate/counselor/Admission-Profile-Freshmen.pdf
@Ezekiel17 Be careful with UM – unless you get a pre-admit for Ross you’d have to apply to the b-school after freshman year and acceptance into Ross via an internal transfer is very competitive. Also I’m not sure SUNY Binghamton is a true safety with an 87 HS average – maybe also apply to SUNY Buffalo and SUNY New Paltz. I think Fairfield is worth looking into as well.
I wasn’t saying it was a reach for him necessarily, just that in my research I wrote it off as a reach for me. I don’t know how a 90 weighted translates into a 4.0 scale GPA. For the record though, the factsheet you’ve provided says “Current as of Fall 2010” so perhaps it’s not the most up-to-date class profile.
CUNY Baruch regularly accepts people with an 85 average and an sat around 1200 from my school and nobody with at least a 90 gpa got rejected unless they had poor test scores.
Ohio University, Temple?
Also U Alabama would give you free tuition with 3.5 GPA and 32 ACT. Lots of OOS students.
http://scholarships.ua.edu/types/out-of-state.php
^have to apply soon, before Dec 15