2026 Success Stories with B-average?

[Anonymous]

What about ranking? A 3.6 at a school where no one gets above 3.9 is very different from a 3.6 at a school where 20% are straight A students.

[Anonymous]

OP - we can't advise without meaningful data. What is the GPA on a 4.0 scale? Is that weighted or not? SAT score? Otherwise: garbage in = garbage out!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your kid has a B-range average, I would love to hear where they have gotten in this year and what merit, if any. Also test optional or no?

If it's an unweighted B+ (3.6 or just under an A-) and is at a private school that doesn't have people have unweighted averages above 3.9, the student (coupled with strong scores/ECs/recs and strong rigor) could get into BU, NYU, WashU and UChicago at our private.

B+ is not B- and I find Wash U and Uchicago unlikely for both.

PP here, my apologies, I read this thread as B+ (not B-) and commented accordingly. I need new reading glasses, sigh!