Suggest schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looking for Target schools for a child with a 33 ACT, 3.8 (school does not weight), good ECs. SLACs or medium sized in the northeast, humanities. Suggestions welcome.

Sounds like my kid last year. You don't mention class rank and how many others from that school are applying to each SLAC. Anyway, turned down at Bowdoin among other SLACs not in the northeast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looking for Target schools for a child with a 33 ACT, 3.8 (school does not weight), good ECs. SLACs or medium sized in the northeast, humanities. Suggestions welcome.

I haven’t ever seen most of the following schools but am hoping they’re good, serious schools for the kinds of bright, serious kids who might have gone to
Tufts in the 1980s but might be shut out of those now:

University of Rochester.

Syracuse University.

The New England state public flagships.

College of the Holy Cross.

The College of New Jersey

Hobart and William Smith

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looking for Target schools for a child with a 33 ACT, 3.8 (school does not weight), good ECs. SLACs or medium sized in the northeast, humanities. Suggestions welcome.

Sounds like my kid last year. You don't mention class rank and how many others from that school are applying to each SLAC. Anyway, turned down at Bowdoin among other SLACs not in the northeast.

So where was your similar kid accepted?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looking for Target schools for a child with a 33 ACT, 3.8 (school does not weight), good ECs. SLACs or medium sized in the northeast, humanities. Suggestions welcome.

I haven’t ever seen most of the following schools but am hoping they’re good, serious schools for the kinds of bright, serious kids who might have gone to
Tufts in the 1980s but might be shut out of those now:

University of Rochester.

Syracuse University.

The New England state public flagships.

College of the Holy Cross.

The College of New Jersey



Hobart and William Smith

Norwich University (I think this is like a Citadel of the North)

These colleges seem like safeties for a kid with these stats. The 3.8 is UW so in MCPS or elsewhere would be higher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looking for Target schools for a child with a 33 ACT, 3.8 (school does not weight), good ECs. SLACs or medium sized in the northeast, humanities. Suggestions welcome.

Sounds like my kid last year. You don't mention class rank and how many others from that school are applying to each SLAC. Anyway, turned down at Bowdoin among other SLACs not in the northeast.

So where was your similar kid accepted?

A certain top 10 LAC, but would rather not mention the name. Specifics can get you a bit of abuse around here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is where the person comes in in college admissions. My sense is that a kid with those numbers could end up at a US news top 30 school if the 3.8 is from a rigorous high school and they have strong recs, ECs and essay. For safeties I would look at US news 55 - 75 range.

This poster is wildly optimistic. This was good advice several years back.

Why is this so wildly optimistic? A 33 is at the high end of test scores for many top schools and certainly the top 55-75. I wouldn't count a Top 20 school as a safety for anyone and consider those reaches for most kids, but why couldn't a kid like this get into schools between 25-75 on the rankings? Not definite but not high reaches. A kid with an A minus average and a 33 ACT should have a lot of options.

[Anonymous]

Dickinson, LaFayette, University of Pittsburgh, and Gettysburg

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is where the person comes in in college admissions. My sense is that a kid with those numbers could end up at a US news top 30 school if the 3.8 is from a rigorous high school and they have strong recs, ECs and essay. For safeties I would look at US news 55 - 75 range.

This poster is wildly optimistic. This was good advice several years back.

Why is this so wildly optimistic? A 33 is at the high end of test scores for many top schools and certainly the top 55-75. I wouldn't count a Top 20 school as a safety for anyone and consider those reaches for most kids, but why couldn't a kid like this get into schools between 25-75 on the rankings? Not definite but not high reaches. A kid with an A minus average and a 33 ACT should have a lot of options.

I would say those are good not great stats. Might not be enough to get him into a Top 30. Top 40-45 likely but the pyramid gets steep.