Where do "B" average Big-3 students go to college?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So where are the B students going to go this year? Are the college advisors at Sidwell, STA, etc having kids scramble to send last minute apple to the next tier down? Places like Towson and West Va? What's actually happening?

Do your kids go to any of these schools? If, so , you would know.

My kids do but they're not seniors. I have a junior and sophomore.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So where are the B students going to go this year? Are the college advisors at Sidwell, STA, etc having kids scramble to send last minute apple to the next tier down? Places like Towson and West Va? What's actually happening?

Do your kids go to any of these schools? If, so , you would know.

My kids do but they're not seniors. I have a junior and sophomore.

Your CCO should be able to give you a much better picture than the anonymous posters here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So where are the B students going to go this year? Are the college advisors at Sidwell, STA, etc having kids scramble to send last minute apple to the next tier down? Places like Towson and West Va? What's actually happening?

Do your kids go to any of these schools? If, so , you would know.

My kids do but they're not seniors. I have a junior and sophomore.

Your CCO should be able to give you a much better picture than the anonymous posters here.

So far, college counseling at our Big-3 has been very disappointing. DC is a junior, and the list of colleges we received of 20 or so schools with which to begin our research seemed haphazard. Not divided into safety/target/reach, missing some obvious schools, etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My big3 B student with a 32 ACT rejected from Auburn this year.

Because Auburn knew your kid wouldn't go there. See these lists - Big 3 kids don't go to Auburn.[/quote

Yield protection is not real.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, there may be a big difference in results between a 3.0 and a 3.4. Can you be more specific?

GPA is around 3.4, all inclusive (meaning, school includes grades for music, art, PE, etc., in GPA).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My big3 B student with a 32 ACT rejected from Auburn this year.

That is interesting Auburn accepted 20,000 applicants under EA, average ACT was 28.2. Acceptance rate was 44 percent.

https://ocm.auburn.edu/newsroom/news_articles/2023/02/081400-record-number-of-applicants.php

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A good sized group of STA seniors who likely have mostly As and a few Bs (think 3.7-3.8 gpa) are all going to Boston College. Good school, but 10+ years ago this group would have expected to be accepted to top 20 schools. Times have changed.

If they already got in, they applied ED, which I'm sure helped their chances a lot.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:From our Big 3 many of the B students went to UMiami, Tulane, Northeastern, Colgate, Colby.

Not anymore. A solid B student would be lucky to get into CU Boulder these days.

Did things change this year (2023?)
Because they were getting in last year (2022).

How do you even know since decisions aren't all out yet?

NP. This is true. My B student at a big3 with a 33 ACT was rejected from Boulder this year (2023).

That’s weird, our private school had a student accepted with B average and lower test scores, also 2023. What was major?

It’s not weird. No school can accept everyone. As much as people here love to think in a linear fashion, it’s not like the school ranks kids by numbers and takes everyone above a mark. Of course they accepted kids with higher and lower scores.

[Anonymous]

A straight B is a 3.0. This means you likely either got nothing in the a range ever or had a mix of grades, including B- and some Cs. This is solidly bottom quarter of the class, especially if it is straight Bs in the lower level course - I am aware the big 3 schools mostly don’t level, but did your kid get to honors level calculus? Take the harder science classes etc.

If your kid is an honors level B student then maybe you could use ED to get into a Lehigh, Washington and lee, bucknell, trinity or conn college level school. Otherwise more realistic options would be elon, st Lawrence, Dickinson, JMU.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A good sized group of STA seniors who likely have mostly As and a few Bs (think 3.7-3.8 gpa) are all going to Boston College. Good school, but 10+ years ago this group would have expected to be accepted to top 20 schools. Times have changed.

If they already got in, they applied ED, which I'm sure helped their chances a lot.

Yes, they likely applied ED because they may not have gotten in if they didn't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, there may be a big difference in results between a 3.0 and a 3.4. Can you be more specific?

GPA is around 3.4, all inclusive (meaning, school includes grades for music, art, PE, etc., in GPA).

That's a B+ average, not B.

Consult the college counselors at your Big-3. Look at Naviance. (I don't love Naviance, but it may provide some clues.)

From the west coast, check out acceptances for various GPAs at Harvard Westlake in this document https://students.hw.com/Portals/44/completehandbook2023.pdf

[Anonymous]

I'm in my third cycle of getting a 3.0 to 3.2 kid from Big 3 to college. This year is absolutely nothing like the other years. I really believe the increasing grade inflation from publics, along with the 50% plus increase in applications to so many schools, has made all schools except the LACS out of reach for the 50th percentile and lower kids this year. My 3.2 kid has been deferred from everywhere and I think is about to get rejected from Tennessee tomorrow, then later Boulder--his top two choices. I do think he'll get into some PA LACs, which is not what he wants. But this cycle is even worse than 2021. I really wish I had sent my kids to public. They would have had fun and had better oppotunities.

[Anonymous]

If your kid is an honors level B student then maybe you could use ED to get into a Lehigh, Washington and lee, bucknell, trinity or conn college level school. Otherwise more realistic options would be elon, st Lawrence, Dickinson, JMU.

Honors classes and Bs is not getting a kid into W&L.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My big3 B student with a 32 ACT rejected from Auburn this year.

That is interesting Auburn accepted 20,000 applicants under EA, average ACT was 28.2. Acceptance rate was 44 percent.

https://ocm.auburn.edu/newsroom/news_articles/2023/02/081400-record-number-of-applicants.php

But average gpa was 4.2. This would be a case where not having APs and weighted honors classes, plus grade deflation would hurt a private school student. Big state universities don’t make the private/public distinction.

It would also be interesting to see the stats for OOS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm in my third cycle of getting a 3.0 to 3.2 kid from Big 3 to college. This year is absolutely nothing like the other years. I really believe the increasing grade inflation from publics, along with the 50% plus increase in applications to so many schools, has made all schools except the LACS out of reach for the 50th percentile and lower kids this year. My 3.2 kid has been deferred from everywhere and I think is about to get rejected from Tennessee tomorrow, then later Boulder--his top two choices. I do think he'll get into some PA LACs, which is not what he wants. But this cycle is even worse than 2021. I really wish I had sent my kids to public. They would have had fun and had better oppotunities.

They would have had fun but I'm not sure the public kids are doing all that great either. I have many friends at Jackson Reed and their kids are waitlisted and deferred too. There are just way too many kids with top grades for colleges to even sort them out. The only kids getting in are hooked.