What Colleges Can I Get Into With a 3.58 GPA???

Arizona State...90% acceptance rate

University of Oregon, anyone with a pulse can get in.

RockyRococo wrote:

It's clear that you've never actually hired someone.

Please. In the high-end tech world - startups, Facebook, etc. - you hire the best talent. Period. Any moron can dick around and get a 3.5 at Wisconsin; that's nowhere near as impressive as a 3.0 at MIT.

If you'd really hire the 3.5 from Wisconsin, you're Microsoft and you lose the arms race for talent. Badly. Facebook, Google, and whomever else hire the kids with much more natural ability and those kids come up with the revolutionary ideas.

High school grades don't mean much. I had a 3.58 in high school as well, majored in math with a 3.8 in college, then got fellowships to a number of top phd programs. Just go to the best school where you can get in and excel. For me college was must easier to get good grades since there was less BS (petty teachers, homework checks, pointless essays).

Your SAT is very good, but not great--about the 85th percentile. Along with your GPA there are many good schools open to you. You need to consider the following: What geographical areas interest you? Assuming you get some merit aid, how will you pay for the remaining costs? Are you interested in an urban or rural school? Large or small? Once you answer these questions, then start looking within your accepting parameters of what schools have good biology programs. Here what you want to look for are: How up to date are the labs? How large is the department? What are the opportunities for doing research as an undergraduate? All those on the thread who say the choice of school doesn't matter are shortsighted at best. You'll have four years ahead of you to develop intellectually, socially, emotionally, an opportunity to stretch yourself and meet wonderful people--and the importance of these things can scarcely be overestimated. Some places will provide a better fit for you then others will. If you continue the thread and fill in some of the questions above I'd be glad to make suggestions (yes, I'm a university professor for over twenty years). In any case, good luck.

Nervous Highschooler wrote:

Hello all, I am a junior currently and am wondering what colleges I can get into with a 3.5 GPA. I am looking to major in biology. SAT score is 1850. Cool thanks.

as a matter of fact wrote:

The reason anyone gets a good job is 90% networking and 10% qualifications.

Yep.

Also, where you go to grad school matters a lot more than where you go for undergrad. If you want to spend big money on your education, spend the money in grad school. Much better to attend a middle of the road school and then be able to pay for a master's at a top ten school than to go to some $30K/yr school for undergrad and accumulate so much debt that your grad school options are limited.

kartelite wrote:

For me college was must easier to get good grades

Also, I can be a bit careless about things that high school teachers like to nitpick on.

"I beg to differ. It's child's play to get into college, but a absolute bitch to graduate. At UO, though, anyone with a pulse can graduate ;-)"

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I beg to differ, anyone who majors in liberal arts can graduate. If you go for a real program of education, pre-med, biology, architecture, accounting, Physics... you may not find it quite so easy to graduate. Of course, you might actually find a job if you go for a real degree.

UT-San Antonio Roadrunners Great campus with a lazy river

Nervous Highschooler wrote:

Hello all, I am a junior currently and am wondering what colleges I can get into with a 3.5 GPA. I am looking to major in biology. SAT score is 1850. Cool thanks.

I know a lot of kids at Tufts who had similar backgrounds, I'd look there if that's your bag

3.5 and 1850 at what sort of high school ? high school aged children do not have fully developed brains and teach to the test scores are not a good indicator of future academic success.

lollercoaster wrote:

Wow! Wisconsin! Colgate!

You'd have gotten chewed up and spit out by someone from MIT, CMU, or Stanford. Mostly because they're real schools.

I don't believe this guy either. Everyone knows all Colgate alums go to work for Goldman or JP Morgan...Definite;y not somewhere that would hire a Bowler Green student.