Where do A students from top local privates go?

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Anonymous wrote:The kid will get into UVA in state and that's likely the best option

Yep OP here and tend to agree. Got large merit from EA.

Large merit from UVA? I don't think so. UVA doesn't give merit aid except for the Jefferson, which is super competitive

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The kid will get into UVA in state and that's likely the best option

Yep OP here and tend to agree. Got large merit from EA.

Large merit from UVA? I don't think so. UVA doesn't give merit aid except for the Jefferson, which is super competitive

No. UVA is not out yet with UVA. Can easily afford UVA. Merit from another EA. Private.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The kid will get into UVA in state and that's likely the best option

Yep OP here and tend to agree. Got large merit from EA.

Large merit from UVA? I don't think so. UVA doesn't give merit aid except for the Jefferson, which is super competitive

No. UVA is not out yet with UVA. Can easily afford UVA. Merit from another EA. Private.

what school and how much

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The kid will get into UVA in state and that's likely the best option

Yep OP here and tend to agree. Got large merit from EA.

Large merit from UVA? I don't think so. UVA doesn't give merit aid except for the Jefferson, which is super competitive

+1. We received no merit. 36 ACT. Only merit is Jefferson.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seiously, got a kid with 3.8 UW in a challenging schedule, 33 ACT, and good academic ECs that was rejected from ivy ED. Accepted EA to a private. Aiming higher but RD round is brutal so little nervous. Full pay…do they really care? Not legacy, URM, or athlete. Diverse in terms of middle eastern but had to check white.

While Naviance is your best source since the 3.8 is UW, SCHEV indicates that UVA might be a bit of a stretch. The entering had a 75% median percentile WGPA of 4.49, median was 4.35 and bottom 25% was 4.21. Your kid's ACT is middle of the pack. Top 75 percentile median was a 34; median a 33; and bottom 25% a 30. Next year will be higher stats. Also RD is much more difficult. https://research.schev.edu//enrollment/B10_FreshmenProfile.asp

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Seiously, got a kid with 3.8 UW in a challenging schedule, 33 ACT, and good academic ECs that was rejected from ivy ED. Accepted EA to a private. Aiming higher but RD round is brutal so little nervous. Full pay…do they really care? Not legacy, URM, or athlete. Diverse in terms of middle eastern but had to check white.

While Naviance is your best source since the 3.8 is UW, SCHEV indicates that UVA might be a bit of a stretch. The entering had a 75% median percentile WGPA of 4.49, median was 4.35 and bottom 25% was 4.21. Your kid's ACT is middle of the pack. Top 75 percentile median was a 34; median a 33; and bottom 25% a 30. Next year will be higher stats. Also RD is much more difficult. https://research.schev.edu//enrollment/B10_FreshmenProfile.asp

UVA warns applicants again and again to take the SCHEV numbers with a grain of salt. Not all schools, especially privates, weigh grades. A kid with a 3.8 UW with a "challenging schedule" would have well over a 4.0 weighted. And a 33 ACT is a very competitive score for an in state applicanr. I do not consider the OP's kid to be a stretch admit. The kid has a good chance of admission.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seiously, got a kid with 3.8 UW in a challenging schedule, 33 ACT, and good academic ECs that was rejected from ivy ED. Accepted EA to a private. Aiming higher but RD round is brutal so little nervous. Full pay…do they really care? Not legacy, URM, or athlete. Diverse in terms of middle eastern but had to check white.

While Naviance is your best source since the 3.8 is UW, SCHEV indicates that UVA might be a bit of a stretch. The entering had a 75% median percentile WGPA of 4.49, median was 4.35 and bottom 25% was 4.21. Your kid's ACT is middle of the pack. Top 75 percentile median was a 34; median a 33; and bottom 25% a 30. Next year will be higher stats. Also RD is much more difficult. https://research.schev.edu//enrollment/B10_FreshmenProfile.asp

UVA warns applicants again and again to take the SCHEV numbers with a grain of salt. Not all schools, especially privates, weigh grades. A kid with a 3.8 UW with a "challenging schedule" would have well over a 4.0 weighted. And a 33 ACT is a very competitive score for an in state applicanr. I do not consider the OP's kid to be a stretch admit. The kid has a good chance of admission.

33 ACT is low for all of the schools OP posted. Might have a chance at UVA, but I would still call it a stretch with a 33 ACT, even in state. 3.8 GPA isn't bad, but hey, my 3.9 student with a 36 ACT did not get in the UVA engineering school...but he is from MD and applied from a private school with many VA residents. Odds were against him. He's fine though...got into a reach which was his first choice.

Bottom line, I hope the OPs kid had some safeties on his list. Assuming OP only listed reach schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The kid will get into UVA in state and that's likely the best option

Yep OP here and tend to agree. Got large merit from EA.

Large merit from UVA? I don't think so. UVA doesn't give merit aid except for the Jefferson, which is super competitive

No. UVA is not out yet with UVA. Can easily afford UVA. Merit from another EA. Private.

Good luck--I would be over the moon for UVA.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seiously, got a kid with 3.8 UW in a challenging schedule, 33 ACT, and good academic ECs that was rejected from ivy ED. Accepted EA to a private. Aiming higher but RD round is brutal so little nervous. Full pay…do they really care? Not legacy, URM, or athlete. Diverse in terms of middle eastern but had to check white.

While Naviance is your best source since the 3.8 is UW, SCHEV indicates that UVA might be a bit of a stretch. The entering had a 75% median percentile WGPA of 4.49, median was 4.35 and bottom 25% was 4.21. Your kid's ACT is middle of the pack. Top 75 percentile median was a 34; median a 33; and bottom 25% a 30. Next year will be higher stats. Also RD is much more difficult. https://research.schev.edu//enrollment/B10_FreshmenProfile.asp

UVA warns applicants again and again to take the SCHEV numbers with a grain of salt. Not all schools, especially privates, weigh grades. A kid with a 3.8 UW with a "challenging schedule" would have well over a 4.0 weighted. And a 33 ACT is a very competitive score for an in state applicanr. I do not consider the OP's kid to be a stretch admit. The kid has a good chance of admission.

33 ACT is low for all of the schools OP posted. Might have a chance at UVA, but I would still call it a stretch with a 33 ACT, even in state. 3.8 GPA isn't bad, but hey, my 3.9 student with a 36 ACT did not get in the UVA engineering school...but he is from MD and applied from a private school with many VA residents. Odds were against him. He's fine though...got into a reach which was his first choice.

Bottom line, I hope the OPs kid had some safeties on his list. Assuming OP only listed reach schools.

OP already said kid is in somewhere with large merit aid. No need for more safeties if they like that one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seiously, got a kid with 3.8 UW in a challenging schedule, 33 ACT, and good academic ECs that was rejected from ivy ED. Accepted EA to a private. Aiming higher but RD round is brutal so little nervous. Full pay…do they really care? Not legacy, URM, or athlete. Diverse in terms of middle eastern but had to check white.

While Naviance is your best source since the 3.8 is UW, SCHEV indicates that UVA might be a bit of a stretch. The entering had a 75% median percentile WGPA of 4.49, median was 4.35 and bottom 25% was 4.21. Your kid's ACT is middle of the pack. Top 75 percentile median was a 34; median a 33; and bottom 25% a 30. Next year will be higher stats. Also RD is much more difficult. https://research.schev.edu//enrollment/B10_FreshmenProfile.asp

UVA warns applicants again and again to take the SCHEV numbers with a grain of salt. Not all schools, especially privates, weigh grades. A kid with a 3.8 UW with a "challenging schedule" would have well over a 4.0 weighted. And a 33 ACT is a very competitive score for an in state applicanr. I do not consider the OP's kid to be a stretch admit. The kid has a good chance of admission.

33 ACT is low for all of the schools OP posted. Might have a chance at UVA, but I would still call it a stretch with a 33 ACT, even in state. 3.8 GPA isn't bad, but hey, my 3.9 student with a 36 ACT did not get in the UVA engineering school...but he is from MD and applied from a private school with many VA residents. Odds were against him. He's fine though...got into a reach which was his first choice.

Bottom line, I hope the OPs kid had some safeties on his list. Assuming OP only listed reach schools.

OP already said kid is in somewhere with large merit aid. No need for more safeties if they like that one.

Yep thanks. OP here. Got hefty tuition merit aid from a private. Naviance looks good for Tufts, UVA, Georgetown. No shot at Penn, Yale, or Brown. Hard but not impossible at Cornell. Wake looks good. Hoping for merit there. Likely, if she gets UVA will take UVA. EA but agree very hard this year. Though Naviance looks decent with stats. Northwestern and Vandy looks tough. Hopkins actually doesn’t look horrible and non pre med so they may like that. Hoping full pay makes a difference at some.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Seiously, got a kid with 3.8 UW in a challenging schedule, 33 ACT, and good academic ECs that was rejected from ivy ED. Accepted EA to a private. Aiming higher but RD round is brutal so little nervous. Full pay…do they really care? Not legacy, URM, or athlete. Diverse in terms of middle eastern but had to check white.

Your kid isn't an A student with a 3.8 and a 33 is not gonna cut it for the Ivy League. Your kid is average at a top private at best.

First, you are wrong that Ivy won't take a kids with a 3.8 (even lower). This is why GPA's are pointless.

Glad the UK doesn't use them. If you get 5 on all the APS and ace the standardized test, why should anyone care if your gym teacher gave you a B in 10th grade or if you bombed one semester of history in 9th grade? If you know it all, it really doesn't matter that you made mistakes while learning the material along the way.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seiously, got a kid with 3.8 UW in a challenging schedule, 33 ACT, and good academic ECs that was rejected from ivy ED. Accepted EA to a private. Aiming higher but RD round is brutal so little nervous. Full pay…do they really care? Not legacy, URM, or athlete. Diverse in terms of middle eastern but had to check white.

While Naviance is your best source since the 3.8 is UW, SCHEV indicates that UVA might be a bit of a stretch. The entering had a 75% median percentile WGPA of 4.49, median was 4.35 and bottom 25% was 4.21. Your kid's ACT is middle of the pack. Top 75 percentile median was a 34; median a 33; and bottom 25% a 30. Next year will be higher stats. Also RD is much more difficult. https://research.schev.edu//enrollment/B10_FreshmenProfile.asp

UVA warns applicants again and again to take the SCHEV numbers with a grain of salt. Not all schools, especially privates, weigh grades. A kid with a 3.8 UW with a "challenging schedule" would have well over a 4.0 weighted. And a 33 ACT is a very competitive score for an in state applicanr. I do not consider the OP's kid to be a stretch admit. The kid has a good chance of admission.

33 ACT is low for all of the schools OP posted. Might have a chance at UVA, but I would still call it a stretch with a 33 ACT, even in state. 3.8 GPA isn't bad, but hey, my 3.9 student with a 36 ACT did not get in the UVA engineering school...but he is from MD and applied from a private school with many VA residents. Odds were against him. He's fine though...got into a reach which was his first choice.

Bottom line, I hope the OPs kid had some safeties on his list. Assuming OP only listed reach schools.

OP already said kid is in somewhere with large merit aid. No need for more safeties if they like that one.

Yep thanks. OP here. Got hefty tuition merit aid from a private. Naviance looks good for Tufts, UVA, Georgetown. No shot at Penn, Yale, or Brown. Hard but not impossible at Cornell. Wake looks good. Hoping for merit there. Likely, if she gets UVA will take UVA. EA but agree very hard this year. Though Naviance looks decent with stats. Northwestern and Vandy looks tough. Hopkins actually doesn’t look horrible and non pre med so they may like that. Hoping full pay makes a difference at some.

Be careful with Naviance. I posted earlier about my son who had a 36 and didn't get into UVA. UVA was a target based on the Naviance in his school. But again, I mentioned we were out of state and many in his school were VA residents. But Naviance can be misleading.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seiously, got a kid with 3.8 UW in a challenging schedule, 33 ACT, and good academic ECs that was rejected from ivy ED. Accepted EA to a private. Aiming higher but RD round is brutal so little nervous. Full pay…do they really care? Not legacy, URM, or athlete. Diverse in terms of middle eastern but had to check white.

Your kid isn't an A student with a 3.8 and a 33 is not gonna cut it for the Ivy League. Your kid is average at a top private at best.

First, you are wrong that Ivy won't take a kids with a 3.8 (even lower). This is why GPA's are pointless.

Glad the UK doesn't use them. If you get 5 on all the APS and ace the standardized test, why should anyone care if your gym teacher gave you a B in 10th grade or if you bombed one semester of history in 9th grade? If you know it all, it really doesn't matter that you made mistakes while learning the material along the way.

The statement “GPAs are pointless” is incredibly untrue and dangerous to believe.

Every admission officer on the planet will tell you your 4-year performance, in the context of your course rigor and HS quality is the primary academic principle on which you are judged.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seiously, got a kid with 3.8 UW in a challenging schedule, 33 ACT, and good academic ECs that was rejected from ivy ED. Accepted EA to a private. Aiming higher but RD round is brutal so little nervous. Full pay…do they really care? Not legacy, URM, or athlete. Diverse in terms of middle eastern but had to check white.

Have the same kid too, OP. Unless you’re from South Dakota, they’re a dime a dozen. (and I’m from a state like South Dakota). So it’s a lottery for these unhooked kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Seiously, got a kid with 3.8 UW in a challenging schedule, 33 ACT, and good academic ECs that was rejected from ivy ED. Accepted EA to a private. Aiming higher but RD round is brutal so little nervous. Full pay…do they really care? Not legacy, URM, or athlete. Diverse in terms of middle eastern but had to check white.

Your kid isn't an A student with a 3.8 and a 33 is not gonna cut it for the Ivy League. Your kid is average at a top private at best.

This depends on the courseload (which, I agree, posters rarely specify).