Where is your kid applying ?

[Anonymous]

My child has no idea where friends are applying. None. His friends (mostly boys) don't talk about college at all. They share their SAT scores, but that's it.

I'm assuming your kid is a girl, OP, if pressure from friends is bothering her.

[Anonymous]

I would think there are a lot of schools you could consider between UMBC and Carnegie Mellon. Maybe U Richmond, UNC, Villanova, Penn State. My kid is a lower tier student but has several of your listed schools as matches.

[Anonymous]

Lafayette, Lehigh, Bucknell, Wake Forest, Elon, Richmond, VA Tech, JMU

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:High point, Miami university, Clemson

yikes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would think there are a lot of schools you could consider between UMBC and Carnegie Mellon. Maybe U Richmond, UNC, Villanova, Penn State. My kid is a lower tier student but has several of your listed schools as matches.

Only if the kid gets the legacy bump, since OOS. Unless PP meant a campus besides Chapel Hill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:High point, Miami university, Clemson

yikes

Elaborate?

[Anonymous]

Not enough info. Where does DC see themselves? GPA and test score are only a part of acceptance. ECs, leadership, job, internship? Do they write well. How's the essays? Math/science strengths or history/humanites strengths? Region?

[Anonymous]

SAT: 1490, 7 APs, ~3.7 UWGPA, ~4.4 WGPA
American, Boston College, Elon, Emory, Fordham, George Washington, University of Miami, Syracuse, and Villanova.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC stats
1450
4.67 wgpa
8 AP classes

Applying to
Pitt
VA tech
UMD
UMBC
Rutgers

Friends telling my kid the list is ‘meh’ and to aim higher.

Where is your kid with similar stats applying to?

more power to your kid for finding some realistic safeties and matches

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child with slightly higher stats is applying to several of the schools on your child's list. My kid is also applying to some Ivy type reaches and a few other schools we can't afford, but are closer matches like Clark, Case Western, WPI, Oberlin, Lafayette. My kid's interests are STEM and music. Cost is an issue for us.

Why are you applying to ivys and schools you can’t afford, What is the plan if accepted?

[Anonymous]

SAT 1520, WGPA 4.4, 8 APs (mostly 5’s one 4) applying to UVA, W&M, GMU, OSU, UNC (now wondering if this is realistic) U of Richmond, interested in Gov and Int Relations, Statistics

[Anonymous]

Don't bother with UNC OOS unless you are a legacy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't bother with UNC OOS unless you are a legacy.[/

PP here. Kid likes Emory. Ideas if the scores make the cut?

[Anonymous]

Emory would be easier to get into than UNC OOS. If your kid likes the south, then Davison, Vanderbilt, and U-Miami in Florida.

[Anonymous]

Davidson (not Davison ) is a great school, but it is very much a SLAC.