Selective college + how many Bs
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Anonymous
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OP, you need to check Naviance for data from your high school.
Any top 15 school is a crapshoot nowadays. Harvard gets 8000+ perfect GPA students for 2000 spots, for example. But that doesn't mean they don't take kids with a B or two. As other example, the person posting here about the absolutes top 6% for things like UVA is being too exact. We have over 110 kids from our mediocre FCPS get into UVA every year based on scattergram and it certainly isn't all over 4.51 GPA. And they reject some over 4.4 because they didn't take the most rigorous or 4 years or science or whatever reason. There is no absolute formula for any school. For uva, you can follow Dean J on instagram weekly she updates followers with live videos and answers questions. Most rigorous curriculum is very important nowadays for some schools, and so is intended major. Follow her blog, and also look at data from your school. |
Anonymous
| Two B's: One in Spanish freshman/Covid year and the other in first semester AP Spanish at a good-not-remarkable public high school. DD got into three T20s (two Ivies) and two WASP LACs. She had a 35 ACT, 12 APs, strong ECs, and a generally strong application. FWIW, she has received straight A's so far at her WASP LAC. |
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