<p>So I got rejected from Baruch College and Queens College. I got accepted to York College which I only applied to fill in the last slot of the application. The only other college I got accepted is City Tech College. The other schools I applied to are Queens College and Hunter College and City College. Waiting on Hunter College which I think is highly unlikely since I couldn’t get into Queens College but not sure about City College. </p>
<p>I have a total SAT score of 1370 and my average is 87.
I didn’t pass the trig regents but passed the class.
Same goes with geometry, earth science but have passed algebra, chemistry, earth science, us history regents.</p>
<p>What are my chances of getting into City College or even Hunter College? Why wasn’t I accepted to Queens College? I understand Baruch is much harder to get in but I should have at least gotten into Queens College.</p>
<p>EDIT: I forget to mention that I was accepted to St. Johns as well.</p>
<p>Your SAT score is the main reason. 1370 is well below the national average, without even mentioning the average of the admits to the schools you applied to.</p>
<p>The national average SAT score is roughly 1500. Ideally, a guidance counselor would have advised you to retake the test and get a tutor. </p>
<p>That said, if you work hard, succeed with good grades where accepted, you should be able to transfer to your number 1 choice. Another option that saves money is to go to community college for a year or two. The caveat is you have to get As and Bs to prove that you are college ready. Maybe you don’t test well. A solid GPA can overcome that.</p>
<p>I always been a bad tester hence why I was able to pass courses in regents exam that I failed in. </p>
<p>What should I do now? How does transferring work? </p>
<p>What college would be better for me among the 2 that I have gotten accepted to?</p>
<p>I won’t go to a community college but now seems like I’m going have to go the transfer route unfortunately. When I have to transfer, what do they look at besides gpa and credits?</p>
<p>The best thing to do would be to go to a community college or one that will accept you and then get good grades. If you get good grades, you’ll likely be able to transfer to a mid-tier college in the area pretty easily.</p>
<p>As for what they look for, they’ll see how you did in high school, but if you give a strong showing at a collegiate level, that will over-ride a lot of other stuff.</p>
<p>You need to walk in to your guidance office, and ask them to set up formal screening for you for dyslexia-like processing issues. You may have an undiagnosed learning disability, and if so, you have the right to ask for accommodations in class and in testing situations. Good class grades, and bad test scores, are a big bright waving red flag for learning disabilities.</p>
<p>I agree. The student who can somehow do well on “in the classroom tests” and get good grades, but somehow does very poorly on standardized tests, may not have an LD. He may just go to an easy school with grade inflation. </p>
<p>Obviously, some kids do have LDs, but the “big red flag” that a school is easy is when a student has good classroom grades, and low/below average standardized test scores.</p>
<p>Not only your SAT score but your regents. If you failed all of those regents exams they probably already put you into the auto-deny pile, and then the SAT score only made it worse. Not trying to be mean, just honest. If you really want to go to a CUNY, then go to a CC for two years and transfer. And btw, CUNY’s and SUNY’s place a lot more emphasis on regents exams because they are state schools and know how regents work.</p>
<p>When you say “total score”, are you only counting CR +Math (or all 3 parts)? </p>
<p>What do your CR and Math scores break out to? </p>
<p>What did you put down for your major (your grades and scores could be a little low for a particular major.)</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>Did you receive at least an 80 on one math regents, a 65 on a second math regents and passed the year of Al2/Trig ? These are minimally part of the CUNY skills requirement (and what constitutes college readiness by the NYC DOE). Different schools have different SAT math cut-offs (See link) If you d not have 2 passed math regents ; one with an 80 and the other with a 65, this will be the main reason you were not admitted to Queens, Baruch (you will probably get a no from Hunter and City College)</p>
<p>Did you submit recommendation letters and an essay (you can now do that, even though Baruch is the only CUNY school that now requires it).</p>
<p>Were you SEEK/CD eligible?</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>The tribal counsel has spoken. At the end of the day you attend York or City Tech, accumulate 24 credits with a high GPA and then you can transfer.</p>
<p>The SAT score I included is the total including all 3 sections.
I was told at first that you need a 75 for math regents which just got changed to a 80 now. I re took the algebra regents and got a 77. I passed the course of Trig and now am taking Calc AB. </p>
<p>The teacher that I was going to go for recommendation letter unfortunately passed away so no. I have a essay but CUNY schools never asked for one so I didn’t submit it. I never even saw a option to do so because if there was one, I would submit it. </p>
<p>I know for a fact that I am SEEK/CD eligible but however I did not get any email or letter about it being accepted. </p>
<p>Why are the SEEK/CD scores lower than general admission? If I was to get accepted to SEEK, would they have checked my grades and compared to the general admission or the SEEK one?</p>
<p>the regents score for the 4 year CUNY has been an 80 for at least the past 2 years (last year they added the 2nd regents and the passing of AL2/Trig). Eventually is is going to be all 3 math regents.</p>
<p>Did you check the box stating that you were applying for SEEK/CD?<br>
If you do not check the box and fill out the information, although you may be financially eligible, they will not consider you. </p>
<p>Most students from seek/CD are financially both financially and academically disadvantaged. If you would have been SEEK eligible, they would have used the SAT scores/Grades for seek.</p>
<p>The Essays and recommendations are still optional for Baruch and all of the other CUNYs (for gen admission). </p>
<p>If your application could have benefitted from the recommendations and essay (since you said that you were not good at standardized tests an you definitely wanted to be considered for SEEK, you could have benefitted) then I advise students to submit the information.</p>
<p>You can contact the schools where you have been accepted to see if you have been admitted under SEEK. If they say no, then there is nothing left to do. Keep in mind that there are more people qualified for SEEK/EOP/HEOP than there are spots available. Just because you are qualified, does not necessarily mean that you are accepted (and no one “owes” you an admission).</p>
<p>I feel like even if you did apply to SEEK, there might be more qualified people for that? because maybe SEEK pool was just as competitive and was financially eligible? I know I got selected for SEEK at Hunter and I thought I was academically overqualified for that (or maybe not since I applied to nursing) (high GPA, on target SAT range)& now need to send in financial documents to verify. CUNYs (even with SEEK?) are getting more competitive each year like what my guidance counselor said. I got into most CUNYS for now and still waiting for that engineering program at city college(competitive). I remember my friend with a high GPA got selected for Baruch SEEK… I guess SEEK still has some kind of cut off? I don’t think you can contact anyone about it other than going to a community college and transfer?</p>