Target schools with 35 ACT and 3.7 GPA unweighted

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Anonymous wrote:Agree with PP. My DD had same ACT and a 3.7 from a Big 3 and got into Carnegie Mellon for Engineering among others. (And that was with a C in an AP science class senior year). I do think people are being a bit pessimistic depending on ECs, recommendations, etc. Assuming money is not a major factor, I would recommend figuring out what type of school DC wants and then putting together a list of schools with those attributes across a range of difficulty. For example, my DD wanted a small/medium school with engineering preferably in a city and her list included Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, Rice, WashU, Lafayette, Tulane and Rennsalear. Got into several of these and was able to choose. On the other hand, for kids who want big state school, the list might include UCLA, Michigan, UVA, but also UWisc.

So is the consensus that 3.7 unweighted from private will get you into CMU but not if you're coming from public HS? We visited CMU recently and loved it. DC has similar stats but we're at public HS, although DC is not interested in CS or engineering.

I wouldn't go that far. So many other factors involved... Also, PP's kid was a girl applying to eng school which is a big factor too. If you DC is not interested in CS or engineering, why would you look at CMU?

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Arts/Theater, Business/ Econ, Psych

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Anonymous wrote:Arts/Theater, Business/ Econ, Psych

NP. Can you still get into Michigan with those stats?

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PP here with DD accepted at CMU. Was just this year and she is going elsewhere next year. On the private/public question, the GPAs are where you see the biggest difference. In DDs class, there is not a single student who has a 4.0 unweighted GPA and my understanding is that only one or two have above 3.9. So the GPAs that are in the 3.8 range are very very strong at her school. It is a big contrast to some of the publics around here where a 3.7 unweighted would put you well down in the class.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Arts/Theater, Business/ Econ, Psych

NP. Can you still get into Michigan with those stats?

Don't know. At DC's school Michigan functioned more as a safety for kids who usually ended up at Ivies or as an academically-strong music or arts school (where, IIRC, kids audition/submit portfolios as part of the admissions process).

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In general, I'd say highly selective flagship publics place more weight on GPA than on standardized testing (and than some prestigious private colleges do). But I can't tell how much that same logic governs OOS admissions (where full pay, geographic diversity, establishing/extending networks kick in and change the equity issues/objectives that frame in-state admissions.

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RE grades and Carnegie Mellon. Here's a link to the most recent data (class of 2016/2020):

https://www.cmu.edu/ira/CDS/pdf/cds_2016-17/c-first-time-first-year-admission.pdf

95% who enrolled had GPAs in the top quarter of their HS class. 61% had GPAs greater than or equal to 3.75. Average HS GPA was 3.76.

This is from the Common Data Set (cds), which most schools post online each year. Supplement it with Naviance, if you can, to get a better idea of how things play out at your DC's HS.

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This year 56000 applied to USC and only 3000 got it.
We applied and did not get in (low 9th and 10th grade GPA from a charter, very high GPA in 11th grade and 4.3 12th grade mid term, 35 ACT)
Got into UCLA

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Anonymous wrote:This year 56000 applied to USC and only 3000 got it.
We applied and did not get in (low 9th and 10th grade GPA from a charter, very high GPA in 11th grade and 4.3 12th grade mid term, 35 ACT)
Got into UCLA

"We" applied?

Also, no. USC does not have a 5% acceptance rate. 56000 applied and the CLASS has 3000. But that doesn't mean only 3000 got accepted...

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http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1944094-college-admissions-statistics-class-of-2021-early-and-regular-decision-acceptance-rates.html#latest


Looks like USC admitted 16% of its applicants this year.

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Op is the UW GPA from a magnet high school program like Blair or RMIB or TJ? Very few kids with UW 4.0 gaps in these programs and you would hope the top schools would make allowances for this as they would for a to private

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Not enough to guarantee admission to one of the top state schools like UVA, Michigan, etc., but you'll stand a chance. Look into state schools a tier or two down for significant merit aid.