Medium to Large Southern Schools

[Anonymous]

Here's your strategy OP:

MANDATORY: go test optional. UGA, UNC, UF don't want that 28 pulling down their mean. Same for Vandy, Duke.

Play up the Congressional internship and service and Eagle Scout and service and more service. If you are indigenous/Central American, play that up. (If you are from Buenos Aires and wealthy, do not play that up.)

Every single school is on the table with a Hispanic Eagle Scout and a 4.0W. Especially Duke and Vanderbilt.

Georgia is a little tougher because that 4.0w is not killer. Same for UF and UT-Austin. Florida and Texas will have a lot of Hispanic kids with 4.5W.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:U of FLA
Georgia
Clemson
Wake Forest
UNC

Smaller

College of Charleston
Vanderbilt (reach with 28 ACT)
Davidson

The ACT. Is a little low

Maybe South Carolina, auburn, nc state,

UNC, Vanderbilt and Wake are way out of reach.

If Wake Forest University is test optional, then it is well within reach for the OP's student.

Do we know which state the OP's student lives ?

OP. Virginia. And UVA out of reach but DS loved it. DS was lukewarm to JMU. We as parents liked W&M but also would be a big reach and not big school enough feel for DS.

Depending on what it was that he loved about UVA, Ole Miss could offer substantial similarities (and pretty much guaranteed admission).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's your strategy OP:

MANDATORY: go test optional. UGA, UNC, UF don't want that 28 pulling down their mean. Same for Vandy, Duke.

Play up the Congressional internship and service and Eagle Scout and service and more service. If you are indigenous/Central American, play that up. (If you are from Buenos Aires and wealthy, do not play that up.)

Every single school is on the table with a Hispanic Eagle Scout and a 4.0W. Especially Duke and Vanderbilt.

Georgia is a little tougher because that 4.0w is not killer. Same for UF and UT-Austin. Florida and Texas will have a lot of Hispanic kids with 4.5W.

It'd be tougher to get into Georgia OOS than Duke or Vanderbilt? Really?

[Anonymous]

Tennessee. They give merit aid OOS as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Elon

Except it's not medium and definitely not large.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:U of FLA
Georgia
Clemson
Wake Forest
UNC

Smaller

College of Charleston
Vanderbilt (reach with 28 ACT)
Davidson

The ACT. Is a little low

Maybe South Carolina, auburn, nc state,

UNC, Vanderbilt and Wake are way out of reach.

If Wake Forest University is test optional, then it is well within reach for the OP's student.

Do we know which state the OP's student lives ?

With those stats Wake is a reach.

4.0 URM with 8APs. WFU is not a reach since WFU is test optional.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's your strategy OP:

MANDATORY: go test optional. UGA, UNC, UF don't want that 28 pulling down their mean. Same for Vandy, Duke.

Play up the Congressional internship and service and Eagle Scout and service and more service. If you are indigenous/Central American, play that up. (If you are from Buenos Aires and wealthy, do not play that up.)

Every single school is on the table with a Hispanic Eagle Scout and a 4.0W. Especially Duke and Vanderbilt.

Georgia is a little tougher because that 4.0w is not killer. Same for UF and UT-Austin. Florida and Texas will have a lot of Hispanic kids with 4.5W.

OP. Ok, thank you. DS is Central American but not first gen. Also father is successful small businessman so likely not to get financial aid. We are MC/UMC.

[Anonymous]

The University of Georgia does NOT consider state of residence; however, Georgia Tech does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:U of FLA
Georgia
Clemson
Wake Forest
UNC

Smaller

College of Charleston
Vanderbilt (reach with 28 ACT)
Davidson

The ACT. Is a little low

Maybe South Carolina, auburn, nc state,

UNC, Vanderbilt and Wake are way out of reach.

If Wake Forest University is test optional, then it is well within reach for the OP's student.

Do we know which state the OP's student lives ?

With those stats Wake is a reach.

4.0 URM with 8APs. WFU is not a reach since WFU is test optional.

if he has 4.0 weighted with 8 aps the unweighted must be 3.5 or below, no? Most students at Wake Forest, if they are at a HS that weights grades, will have a weighted well above 4.0 and if unweighted then you would want 3.8 or above. OP, what is his unweighted GPA?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:U of FLA
Georgia
Clemson
Wake Forest
UNC

Smaller

College of Charleston
Vanderbilt (reach with 28 ACT)
Davidson

The ACT. Is a little low

Maybe South Carolina, auburn, nc state,

UNC, Vanderbilt and Wake are way out of reach.

If Wake Forest University is test optional, then it is well within reach for the OP's student.

Do we know which state the OP's student lives ?

With those stats Wake is a reach.

4.0 URM with 8APs. WFU is not a reach since WFU is test optional.

if he has 4.0 weighted with 8 aps the unweighted must be 3.5 or below, no? Most students at Wake Forest, if they are at a HS that weights grades, will have a weighted well above 4.0 and if unweighted then you would want 3.8 or above. OP, what is his unweighted GPA?

Exactly, PP is clueless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:U of FLA
Georgia
Clemson
Wake Forest
UNC

Smaller

College of Charleston
Vanderbilt (reach with 28 ACT)
Davidson

The ACT. Is a little low

Maybe South Carolina, auburn, nc state,

UNC, Vanderbilt and Wake are way out of reach.

And UF and Davidson. UF and FSU are not test optional and a 28 will probably not get you into either now days-- OOS acceptance rates for this past year at UF was in the teens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's your strategy OP:

MANDATORY: go test optional. UGA, UNC, UF don't want that 28 pulling down their mean. Same for Vandy, Duke.

Play up the Congressional internship and service and Eagle Scout and service and more service. If you are indigenous/Central American, play that up. (If you are from Buenos Aires and wealthy, do not play that up.)

Every single school is on the table with a Hispanic Eagle Scout and a 4.0W. Especially Duke and Vanderbilt.

Georgia is a little tougher because that 4.0w is not killer. Same for UF and UT-Austin. Florida and Texas will have a lot of Hispanic kids with 4.5W.

UGA is NOT test optional. ACT or SAT is required for all applicants beginning fall 2022 and beyond.

Forget UGA. Middle 50% ACT was 31-34 and 80% of admits had a GPA of 4.0 or above.

UF is not test optional either. Middle 50% ACT is 29-33. GPA 50% was 4.3-4.6.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:U of FLA
Georgia
Clemson
Wake Forest
UNC

Smaller

College of Charleston
Vanderbilt (reach with 28 ACT)
Davidson

The ACT. Is a little low

Maybe South Carolina, auburn, nc state,

UNC, Vanderbilt and Wake are way out of reach.

Eh, probably not for URM.

[Anonymous]

Wake is not a reach, thy will defer them then they have to play the game Wake plays with those on their deferred list to show how interested they are.

they will definitely get in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's your strategy OP:

MANDATORY: go test optional. UGA, UNC, UF don't want that 28 pulling down their mean. Same for Vandy, Duke.

Play up the Congressional internship and service and Eagle Scout and service and more service. If you are indigenous/Central American, play that up. (If you are from Buenos Aires and wealthy, do not play that up.)

Every single school is on the table with a Hispanic Eagle Scout and a 4.0W. Especially Duke and Vanderbilt.

Georgia is a little tougher because that 4.0w is not killer. Same for UF and UT-Austin. Florida and Texas will have a lot of Hispanic kids with 4.5W.

It'd be tougher to get into Georgia OOS than Duke or Vanderbilt? Really?

Yes because all Georgia cares about these days is actual stats. GPA and SAT/ACT. Your ECs aren't "stats" and the giant state schools don't have time to ponder 40,000 letters of recommendation from the scout leader.

DC was deferred EA OOS from UGA with far better stats than OP and was admitted to a top 10 private school ED -- with killer ECs.