Where do low A- students from highly selective, rigorous, elite high schools get in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid sounds like yours and is at a T25 but not an Ivy...I would look at those T25 as "reaches" as well, places like Michigan, Wisconsin if she wants big, or others have suggested good smaller schools.

Can you say which T25?
Emory? Michigan? UVA?wash U?

[Anonymous]

If she doesn’t want a small liberal arts school, she should aim for her state flagship or apply early decision to a school she wants to go to. That’s the best option if you are concerned with price. She is competing with thousands of kids with similar stats from similarly competitive high schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ED Chicago or Cornell or Tulane, BC, Wake, UVA, Wisc, Colby, Bowdoin, Richmond, Sewanee

Unless legacy, Chicago and Cornell seem risky. Maybe Tulane, Wake, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A- GPA at a rigorous private is different from A- at a public with grade inflation. Plus 1500 SAT is good and she might get it up.

Let her apply to the reaches.

Make sure she has several safeties and targets.

Agree with this.

But be mindful of who her school’s direct competitors are, and how she differs from them. Play up those differences in major, essays and focus on her pointedness.

Try to have 3 good safeties and many good targets. After that unlimited reaches.

[Anonymous]

GC thinks it is too early? What her grade?

[Anonymous]

Lehigh
Bucknell
Colgate
Hamilton
Villanova
Northeastern
Boston U.

[Anonymous]

If this is for the purpose of visiting schools, for every reach you are picking to visit, pick a match so that you are seeing a variety of schools.
If this is a current junior and you are looking at touring over spring break (assuming you are greater DC area?) drive south and visit Richmond, William and Mary, Elon, Davidson

[Anonymous]

This describes my child to a T (more As than Bs, but has a glaring C+ in APUSH from junior year.) No ADHD; just early onset senioritis. Counselors (school counselor and private counselor) advised him to cast a wide net because they believe that C+ may automatically take him out of the running at some schools. White male unhooked business major. Amazing ECs and a 1540 SAT.

So, his list (while we await results):

ED1: Villanova - denied

EA: Kelley/IU (accepted as direct admit); Providence (accepted); Fordham (accepted); Richmond (waiting to hear)

Regular Decision (we understand many are reaches):
Lehigh
Lafayette
Bucknell
Wake
Holy Cross
W&M
BC
BU

[Anonymous]

They go to every school there is. There are kids like that at every school in the country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This describes my child to a T (more As than Bs, but has a glaring C+ in APUSH from junior year.) No ADHD; just early onset senioritis. Counselors (school counselor and private counselor) advised him to cast a wide net because they believe that C+ may automatically take him out of the running at some schools. White male unhooked business major. Amazing ECs and a 1540 SAT.

So, his list (while we await results):

ED1: Villanova - denied

EA: Kelley/IU (accepted as direct admit); Providence (accepted); Fordham (accepted); Richmond (waiting to hear)

Regular Decision (we understand many are reaches):
Lehigh
Lafayette
Bucknell
Wake
Holy Cross
W&M
BC
BU

Nova denied is crazy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This describes my child to a T (more As than Bs, but has a glaring C+ in APUSH from junior year.) No ADHD; just early onset senioritis. Counselors (school counselor and private counselor) advised him to cast a wide net because they believe that C+ may automatically take him out of the running at some schools. White male unhooked business major. Amazing ECs and a 1540 SAT.

So, his list (while we await results):

ED1: Villanova - denied

EA: Kelley/IU (accepted as direct admit); Providence (accepted); Fordham (accepted); Richmond (waiting to hear)

Regular Decision (we understand many are reaches):
Lehigh
Lafayette
Bucknell
Wake
Holy Cross
W&M
BC
BU

Too bad about Villanova, but I like all those EA schools. I think he'll do well with the rest. Would love to know how it turns out!

[Anonymous]

Reaches might be Vassar and swathmore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reaches might be Vassar and swathmore.

Swarthmore would be a waste of an app, Vassar a maybe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This describes my child to a T (more As than Bs, but has a glaring C+ in APUSH from junior year.) No ADHD; just early onset senioritis. Counselors (school counselor and private counselor) advised him to cast a wide net because they believe that C+ may automatically take him out of the running at some schools. White male unhooked business major. Amazing ECs and a 1540 SAT.

So, his list (while we await results):

ED1: Villanova - denied

EA: Kelley/IU (accepted as direct admit); Providence (accepted); Fordham (accepted); Richmond (waiting to hear)

Regular Decision (we understand many are reaches):
Lehigh
Lafayette
Bucknell
Wake
Holy Cross
W&M
BC
BU

Nova denied is crazy

We were all surprised that he was not deferred. It stung a bit because a legacy kid from our school with much lower stats did get in ED. Oh well! Onward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This describes my child to a T (more As than Bs, but has a glaring C+ in APUSH from junior year.) No ADHD; just early onset senioritis. Counselors (school counselor and private counselor) advised him to cast a wide net because they believe that C+ may automatically take him out of the running at some schools. White male unhooked business major. Amazing ECs and a 1540 SAT.

So, his list (while we await results):

ED1: Villanova - denied

EA: Kelley/IU (accepted as direct admit); Providence (accepted); Fordham (accepted); Richmond (waiting to hear)

Regular Decision (we understand many are reaches):
Lehigh
Lafayette
Bucknell
Wake
Holy Cross
W&M
BC
BU

Nova denied is crazy

We were all surprised that he was not deferred. It stung a bit because a legacy kid from our school with much lower stats did get in ED. Oh well! Onward.

Sorry that sucks.

Look, it's always a risk when there is a peer who is legacy in the applicant pool. Even when schools may be trying to deemphasize legacy, that legacy may be one that they are not going to ignore.