Schools im thinking of using for safeties are :
Ohio University
Western Michigan University
Northern Michigan University
My major is psychology (bs)
What one would be the best to go to, if I ended up having to go to a safety?
The first question I always ask is what can your family afford? What is your home state? A safety has to be affordable.
Second, based upon another of your posts:
I’m not sure any of those are admission safeties. You’re well under the ACT 25%ile for OU and that is rated very important for admission. https://www.ohio.edu/instres/commondataset.pdf
W Mich is closer but still not there: http://wmich.edu/ir/reports/cds/cds/201400cds.pdf
Same with N Mich. https://www.nmu.edu/institutionalresearch/internal-sources
In that general area you could consider the University of Toledo. They have a very high acceptance rate and while the scores that Erin’s Dad posted would put you near the 25% range you would likely be accepted. It is really a pretty school in a slightly Gothic architecture kind of way.
You’re OOS for at least one school.
What are your parents saying about how much they’ll pay? And, at least 2 of those schools would require that you “sleep away.”
You have a low ACT (below 20), so you’re not likely going to get any scholarships. I know you plan on retaking, but even a 20-24 isn’t likely going to result in much/any merit.
Which school can you commute to? That will likely be your safety.
@lvvcsf We need to know what the family can afford. A safety must be affordable.
@mom2coIIegekids my dad is paying and cost isn’t an issue, he’d pay for anything below 40k (anything above id make up the cost by half ie ; 50k I would pay 5k and he would pay 45k)
@ErinsDad my home state is Michigan (metro Detroit area) and the tuition we can offered is 40k and below and then I’d make up the half cost of anything above that.
Sounds like UToledo is a possibility.
^^ I looked closer and U of Toledo only offers a BA in Psychology. I assume it would be less math and science intensive than a BS. It wouldn’t make a great terminal degree but it might work as a stepping stone to a graduate degree.
For someone with a sub 20 ACT, “less math” is the way to go.
With a BS or BA in psych, neither is a great terminal degree. Either way, the student is going to need a grad degree, or simply go into a job that just requires any ole BA degree.
Look into Muskingum, perhaps Capital (OH), Wittenberg, Hiram?
A safety is a place where you are absolutely guaranteed admissions because of your stats, that you can pay for without any aid other than guarantee federal aid and/or guaranteed state aid and/or guaranteed institutional aid, that offers your likely major, and that you would be happy to attend.
None of the places you have suggested would qualify as safeties unless you can find right on their websites that a student with your current ACT score and GPA is guaranteed admissions. If you can’t find a statement to that effect, you have to keep looking for a real safety.
If your own HS guidance counselor can tell you that every single student with grades and test scores like yours who applied to a particular college/university in the past few years has been accepted by that place, then that institution is reasonably safe for you too. So start with your guidance counselor. Where have students like you been admitted recently?
Unless I’ve missed it, nobody’s mentioned the community college route. It seems to me that this is part of what community colleges were made for, so they ought to at least get a nod.
Alternatively the OP could look at schools that don’t require tests. http://www.fairtest.org/schools-do-not-use-sat-or-act-scores-admitting-substantial-numbers-students-bachelor-degree-programs The unfortunate thing there is without tests then tend be holistic which means not a safety (unless Naviance or the GC has enough info to suggest otherwise).