3.8 uw private school gpa/odds

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Anonymous wrote:How were results for Emory ED2?

Emory is a notch below. Only very few ED Emory. Most accepted in RD.

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Anonymous wrote:How were results for Emory ED2?

Emory is a notch below. Only very few ED Emory. Most accepted in RD.

Liar.
Emory = vandy= tufts, maybe below Rice

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Anonymous wrote:Rice is difficult ED, ED2, or RD no matter what.

WashU ED2 is reasonable. Often a student rejected by an ivy in ED would get in WashU in ED2.

Similar with Vandy.

What private school is having an easy time with Vanderbilt in ED2?

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Anonymous wrote:How were results for Emory ED2?

Emory is a notch below. Only very few ED Emory. Most accepted in RD.

Notch below what, WashU? Not a chance. Maybe Rice, sure.

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Anonymous wrote:How were results for Emory ED2?

Emory is a notch below. Only very few ED Emory. Most accepted in RD.

I find this hard to beileve because more students apply ED to Emory than WashU or Rice.

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Anonymous wrote:How were results for Emory ED2?

Emory is a notch below. Only very few ED Emory. Most accepted in RD.

Liar.
Emory = vandy= tufts, maybe below Rice

They're not DMV, that might be why. Private in Bethesda. WashU is very predictable, Emory and Vandy unpredictable. And Rice no admits.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How were results for Emory ED2?

Emory is a notch below. Only very few ED Emory. Most accepted in RD.

Liar.
Emory = vandy= tufts, maybe below Rice

They're not DMV, that might be why. Private in Bethesda. WashU is very predictable, Emory and Vandy unpredictable. And Rice no admits.

Rice admitted less than 200 students ED2 world wide. That's why we didn't hear of many/any.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the most highly ranked school you’ve seen:
a 3.8uw private/high rigor get into? Humanities major
34 ACT

Curious.

Boston College

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those stats work well at Northwestern

Not at all

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Anonymous wrote:My 3.8UW with a 1430 SAT is going to Case Western. Private school, one big time consuming EC, work experience and strong recs. School was steering him much lower.

Do you mind sharing the names of the schools they were steering him toward?

School pushing a lot of the smaller liberal arts schools in the NE -- Union, Hamilton, Dickenson. Also Kenyon. (More that I don't remember because he was NOT interested.) They were good with Rochester. We added Davidson, W&M, Villanova. He did not like Wake Forest. Kid did NOT want a big/state school, but did want to be in a city. He liked Hopkins, but it was too close to home. STEM major & pre-med.

Tufts would be good.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How were results for Emory ED2?

Emory is a notch below. Only very few ED Emory. Most accepted in RD.

Liar.
Emory = vandy= tufts, maybe below Rice

They're not DMV, that might be why. Private in Bethesda. WashU is very predictable, Emory and Vandy unpredictable. And Rice no admits.

Rice admitted less than 200 students ED2 world wide. That's why we didn't hear of many/any.

The others are less than 300. Rice is just a small school it's not realistically more selective than it's peers.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How were results for Emory ED2?

Emory is a notch below. Only very few ED Emory. Most accepted in RD.

Liar.
Emory = vandy= tufts, maybe below Rice

They're not DMV, that might be why. Private in Bethesda. WashU is very predictable, Emory and Vandy unpredictable. And Rice no admits.

Rice admitted less than 200 students ED2 world wide. That's why we didn't hear of many/any.

The others are less than 300. Rice is just a small school it's not realistically more selective than it's peers.

Rice reported ED2 acceptance rate of 6%. What was the rate for the others?

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Anonymous wrote:Private school doesn't mean your kid has better odds for admission... it can work the other way. Grades can be inflated to appease the parents shelling out tuition money, and colleges want kids that aren't privileged in every way. Good luck to your kid, I just find the private school call out annoying.

Above quote is correct. A lot of private school parents delude themselves into thinking the private gives a college admissions advantage, but this is no longer the case, even for a Big 3.

What is Big 3?

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is polluted with a bunch of wildly over-optimistic people. A 3.8 does not look good when 3.9 and 4.0 GPAs are a dime-a-dozen. Anybody that thinks those stats are a lock for fVanderbilt or Chicago or Dartmouth is nuts.

Comparing publics to privates is apples to oranges. Totally different ecosystem, totally different level of access to the top colleges.

Do big name private college counselors like Ivywise have good data on private school gpa thresholds for T20? I would imagine someone does and it’s pretty valuable.

There’s a bit of private HS reputational variation but here’s the general overview:
3.9+ = competitive for T10+
3.8+ = competitive for T11-20/25+
3.7+ = competitive for T25/30+

I think this is overly optimistic. It is rare for an UNHOOKED kid with a 3.8 to get into a T20. A kid with a 3.7 is unlikely to get in a T20-T25.

My unhooked kid w a 3.7 got into a T15

[Anonymous]

This post is from last year. Why are we still discussing this? OP already got in her dream college, this is not going to help her.