i only have a 3.4 GPA , 3.5ish weighted and a 1900 SATs with a 730, 700 on my SATIIs i have the school tv news, advertisement for our school's publications, president of a community service club and editor for the paper along with some other cameos do you guys have any suggestions? pref. near CALIF thx
2006-09-27 18:54:08 · 5 answers · asked by joey 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Standards & Testing
Any...colleges are a business and they take people with great GPA's and test scores and they take people with not so great gpa's and test scores. It is hit or miss. They will always take people they believe will not make it passed the first semester because they do not refund money...it's a strategic business decision.
2006-09-27 19:03:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can tell you what a lot of college admissions officers are going to pick up on... your GPA is only about average (nearly half of all USA HS students graduate with a 3.4 or better) but your SATs are pretty high. So how come a bright kid didnt do well in his courses -- could definitely be an underachiever, won't put out the effort.. That's bad news, watch out.
Still you are in pretty respectable shape. So I thinkyou should check out a couple ofthe college guides and look for a school that is selective, but not 'most' selective.
To be truthful, if I was in CA I would send my kids to UC. The campuses are great, the profs seem pretty good, and the price is right. Do you want to be in Santa Barbara or Davis?
2006-09-28 02:35:13 · answer #2 · answered by matt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could probably get into UC Irvine (I got in there with a similar background), UC Santa Cruz and UC Riverside. Any Cal State school, maybe USC ... you'd probably have a good chance at the colleges around the Pomona area like Occidental, there's Westmont if you're a Christian that's a good school. And if you only want to go to a school like UCLA and UC Berkeley you can always go to a community college, do well (it's easy) and then transfer ... I know a lot of people who did that.
2006-09-28 01:58:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look at some of the UCs, but probably not Berkeley. Apply to UCLA, UCSD, UCSB... some of those. Also check out Brigham Young in Utah, and in TX you can look at Texas A&M, Rice, Baylor... You probably want to look at the second tier schools.. if you're going eastward at all check out Ohio (Oberlin, Denison..), Pennsylvania (Penn State, Bryn Mawr, Carnegie Mellon, Bucknell), and NY (Ithaca, Colgate, Bard...)
Best of luck to you!!
2006-09-28 10:52:03 · answer #4 · answered by winifredbaker 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably any community college. Beyond that, not many.
2006-09-28 03:48:37 · answer #5 · answered by MrZ 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋