Where are your kids Getting in?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:3.7 GPA and 1390 SAT.
Denied from UMD, Clemson and Tulane.
It's not easy out there.

Also, deferred at JMU, Elon and U of Miami.
3.7 GPA is weighted.

Ooofff...this is 13:48.
Hate to ask, but can you tell us if you visited any or all of the campuses? No need for specifics...I know you don’t want to put your kid. Also can you tell if your kid is in public, private, or Catholic/Jewish school?

How are the school guidance counselors reacting? Are you getting any decent advise? I hope so!

We visited all except Miami. Public HS in MD. Counselors are used to it - they advise spreading a wide net.

[Anonymous]

Yikes. Did everything look reasonable on Naviance before applying? Are you waiting on notifications from safeties?

[Anonymous]

3.5 unweighted 4.2 weighted 1310 SAT.

In at WPI, Pitt, Frostburg, Clarkson. RIT offered a spot but not in desired major (will not accept). Merit aid at all. Most merit aid at Clarkson.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:3.5 unweighted 4.2 weighted 1310 SAT.

In at WPI, Pitt, Frostburg, Clarkson. RIT offered a spot but not in desired major (will not accept). Merit aid at all. Most merit aid at Clarkson.

Correction RIT said they would reconsider application if the desired major was changed. He declined.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yikes. Did everything look reasonable on Naviance before applying? Are you waiting on notifications from safeties?

She has gotten into a few nice schools: Pitt, Miami-Ohio, Towson, Delaware, Alabama, South Carolina. She has options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yikes. Did everything look reasonable on Naviance before applying? Are you waiting on notifications from safeties?

She has gotten into a few nice schools: Pitt, Miami-Ohio, Towson, Delaware, Alabama, South Carolina. She has options.

Good for her! So is applying to 12 schools the new norm that the counselors encourage when they say “apply widely?”

[Anonymous]

Our HS counselor recommended 8-10 applications. DD submitted 15 in total. Many were easy with no supplemental essays.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yikes. Did everything look reasonable on Naviance before applying? Are you waiting on notifications from safeties?

She has gotten into a few nice schools: Pitt, Miami-Ohio, Towson, Delaware, Alabama, South Carolina. She has options.

Good for her! So is applying to 12 schools the new norm that the counselors encourage when they say “apply widely?”

Our school counselor recommended everyone apply to a minimum of 8, and that at least 3-4 of those should have admissions rates above 50% + be schools you would happily attend. Finding those takes more work because kids fixate on the ‘dream’ schools which tend to be more selective.

[Anonymous]

In at UMD-CP Honors College, Pitt, U Rochester, UVA, Miami-Ohio.

4.7 weighted GPA, 1560 SAT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In at UMD-CP Honors College, Pitt, U Rochester, UVA, Miami-Ohio.

4.7 weighted GPA, 1560 SAT.

Congrats to your kid.
Great stats btw

[Anonymous]

Please realize to those that aren’t getting into UMD, they only look at weighted GPA’s. This clearly benefits high schools with massive AP offerings, or counties like MCPS that give full whole points increases to honors courses and AP courses. Not to mention their inflated grading scale. For schools that don’t offer a lot of AP’s or don’t curve an A and a B into an automatic A, it is very tough to compete. Don’t take it personally. Every college shows what they are looking for when you look on college confidential. You can see exactly where large schools took the first cuts. What matters to them. It pays to skim thru the forum for sure.

You just REALLY need to do your HW and find the schools that benefit your school’s grading, how much they truly look at all aspects of your application, and rank standardized test scores. Where your kid shines and the school appreciates that, is the schools you apply to.

Same with scholarships, merit, and honors colleges. Look at ALL the details. Is it holistic, is it a scale, do they look at leadership, rigor, etc... Ohio State’s only full tuition scholarships for OOS is the Morell. It has nothing to do with GPA or testing. Only leadership and diversity. So do your HW early. Finding the right matches, not the right names. Time really slips away senior year.

OH and any rolling admissions. Apply in the summer. More likely to get accepted and with a high merit package.

[Anonymous]

So if your HE doesn’t weight AP and honors courses, you are screwed for UMD? Most private schools don’t weight these classes.

[Anonymous]

HS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please realize to those that aren’t getting into UMD, they only look at weighted GPA’s. This clearly benefits high schools with massive AP offerings, or counties like MCPS that give full whole points increases to honors courses and AP courses. Not to mention their inflated grading scale. For schools that don’t offer a lot of AP’s or don’t curve an A and a B into an automatic A, it is very tough to compete. Don’t take it personally. Every college shows what they are looking for when you look on college confidential. You can see exactly where large schools took the first cuts. What matters to them. It pays to skim thru the forum for sure.

You just REALLY need to do your HW and find the schools that benefit your school’s grading, how much they truly look at all aspects of your application, and rank standardized test scores. Where your kid shines and the school appreciates that, is the schools you apply to.

Same with scholarships, merit, and honors colleges. Look at ALL the details. Is it holistic, is it a scale, do they look at leadership, rigor, etc... Ohio State’s only full tuition scholarships for OOS is the Morell. It has nothing to do with GPA or testing. Only leadership and diversity. So do your HW early. Finding the right matches, not the right names. Time really slips away senior year.

OH and any rolling admissions. Apply in the summer. More likely to get accepted and with a high merit package.

MD does not just look at weighted GPA's. That's just not true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So if your HE doesn’t weight AP and honors courses, you are screwed for UMD? Most private schools don’t weight these classes.

Yes. We’re at a Catholic HS and admissions to UMCP are terrible.