Low GPA, decent SAT, What options

[Neo]

DD with low GPA ~3.5 and 1540 in SAT, what strategy, ED, RD options to consider?

[Anonymous]

If she has a lot of rigor in her transcript, she is likely going to have a lot of choices - Georgetown, Boston College, a lot of SLACs,
What is she looking to study?

[Anonymous]

Neo wrote:DD with low GPA ~3.5 and 1540 in SAT, what strategy, ED, RD options to consider?

Is that weighted or unweighted? Private school or public? If that’s unweighted from a rigorous private that’s completely different than weighted from a public.

[Anonymous]

This is my kid as well.
We are looking at schools that are smaller and can give a little more attention to see what he may offer. Make sure she has a solid personal statement and uses the optional place to talk about her GPA - not make excuses - but what she learned along the way to bring to the next step on her journey.
Using ED for a school that he loves and grades are lower end of Naviance scatterplot for his school acceptances - and showing a lot of demonstrated interest (multiple visits, connecting when on campus, interview)
My DS is doing everything reasonable to have a stellar report card for 1st Quarter to supplement his narrative of growth.
What is your DD interested in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If she has a lot of rigor in her transcript, she is likely going to have a lot of choices - Georgetown, Boston College

nope. nope.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Neo wrote:DD with low GPA ~3.5 and 1540 in SAT, what strategy, ED, RD options to consider?

Is that weighted or unweighted? Private school or public? If that’s unweighted from a rigorous private that’s completely different than weighted from a public.

My assumption is if this parent is posting - they are not coming from a rigorous private as they would be getting all the support they need from there at this point in time in the application process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If she has a lot of rigor in her transcript, she is likely going to have a lot of choices - Georgetown, Boston College, a lot of SLACs,
What is she looking to study?

Oh come on! LOL

[Anonymous]

From private, 3.5 is not a low gpa. She’ll be fine. Esp with good ECs. Don’t let the naysayers get you down here. Need more deets about her interests to know schoolmlist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From private, 3.5 is not a low gpa. She’ll be fine. Esp with good ECs. Don’t let the naysayers get you down here. Need more deets about her interests to know schoolmlist.

I’m sorry, but where did OP indicate her student is at a private school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From private, 3.5 is not a low gpa. She’ll be fine. Esp with good ECs. Don’t let the naysayers get you down here. Need more deets about her interests to know schoolmlist.

I’m sorry, but where did OP indicate her student is at a private school?

pp's kid is at a private with a 3.5; we don't know about OP's kid's school.

[Anonymous]

The other thing we’d need to know is whether the 3.5 is a consistent level or whether it reflects an average between a really tough 9th grade year and a much stronger 11th grade year. A student with an upward trajectory is in a stronger position than a student with the same overall GPA but at a consistent level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If she has a lot of rigor in her transcript, she is likely going to have a lot of choices - Georgetown, Boston College, a lot of SLACs,
What is she looking to study?

There is a lot of information missing in the OP's description, but I can't see how Georgetown or BC would be an option with that GPA - public or private.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If she has a lot of rigor in her transcript, she is likely going to have a lot of choices - Georgetown, Boston College, a lot of SLACs,
What is she looking to study?

There is a lot of information missing in the OP's description, but I can't see how Georgetown or BC would be an option with that GPA - public or private.

they don't, and they wouldn't absent some huge "other" thing going on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Neo wrote:DD with low GPA ~3.5 and 1540 in SAT, what strategy, ED, RD options to consider?

Is that weighted or unweighted? Private school or public? If that’s unweighted from a rigorous private that’s completely different than weighted from a public.

+1. A lot more information needed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boston College

This is DS's ED choice and I know the scattergram well - there's less than a 10% chance a kid with a 3.5 or lower GPA is accepted ED. I assume those accepted are recruited athletes or related to the pope or something special. I assume the chance is essentially zero at Georgetown.