Where do A/B students go to college?

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Anonymous wrote:Where do straight A students go these days? My Senior has straight As and I don't think his list is much different than his friends that have some Bs.

My straight A student is at University of Maryland in the Honors College. Couldn’t get into any top schools. Didn’t apply early decision anywhere.

+1 my kid, too, from a magnet, cisgender male, not urm, and CS major. Got merit aid. Not a bad deal. There are a lot of A/B students at UMD, btw. It's a large school. But, it's harder if you are applying to an LEP.

Ah, CS major…makes it challenging

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Anonymous wrote:West Coaster here. In my day B/C students went to USC or NYU, C students went to Pepperdine.

Isn’t it crazy how it’s changed so much?!

DP - yes. No serious student went to USC when I went to college out there. You went to Cal, Stanford or UCLA

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Anonymous wrote:Plenty of schools for everyone. Look at schools outside the top 50 and state schools like Indiana and West Virginia with high acceptance rates.

+1 my A/B students are at Virginia Tech (not engineering) and a <50 ranked LAC

Do they felt like they don't belong at Virginia Tech? Just curious.

No, very happy there. And a better student than in HS, partly greater maturity, partly being able to focus on what he likes. He's a data analytics major/math minor and TAs for a math professor. HS Bs were generally in humanities classes and he takes the bare minimum of those for general ed requirements.

He has a bunch of HS friends at VT and none of them were the very top students in HS, good students but not stellar. Took some AP classes but not all of them.

Thanks for the thoughtful answer. I have a non-engineering kid interested in engineering schools, so this helps.

DP. My non-engineering kid is also at VT and absolutely loves it. Engineering is only about 20% of the school/majors. Lots of other things to choose from. Tons of very smart kids there.

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Anonymous wrote:Where do A/B students go? That’s funny. Given that they are the majority of students in college I’d say they’re attending thousands of colleges.

Exactly. Such a weird question.

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Anonymous wrote:Plenty of schools for everyone. Look at schools outside the top 50 and state schools like Indiana and West Virginia with high acceptance rates.

+1 my A/B students are at Virginia Tech (not engineering) and a <50 ranked LAC

Do they felt like they don't belong at Virginia Tech? Just curious.

No, very happy there. And a better student than in HS, partly greater maturity, partly being able to focus on what he likes. He's a data analytics major/math minor and TAs for a math professor. HS Bs were generally in humanities classes and he takes the bare minimum of those for general ed requirements.

He has a bunch of HS friends at VT and none of them were the very top students in HS, good students but not stellar. Took some AP classes but not all of them.

Thanks for the thoughtful answer. I have a non-engineering kid interested in engineering schools, so this helps.

I think you need to look at the balance of students at the particular school. At VT about 1/3 of students are in the College of Engineering so there are a whole lot of students who are not.

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I think a lot of people assume it’s majority engineering. It’s not.

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Anonymous wrote:Plenty of schools for everyone. Look at schools outside the top 50 and state schools like Indiana and West Virginia with high acceptance rates.

+1 my A/B students are at Virginia Tech (not engineering) and a <50 ranked LAC

Do they felt like they don't belong at Virginia Tech? Just curious.

No, very happy there. And a better student than in HS, partly greater maturity, partly being able to focus on what he likes. He's a data analytics major/math minor and TAs for a math professor. HS Bs were generally in humanities classes and he takes the bare minimum of those for general ed requirements.

He has a bunch of HS friends at VT and none of them were the very top students in HS, good students but not stellar. Took some AP classes but not all of them.

Thanks for the thoughtful answer. I have a non-engineering kid interested in engineering schools, so this helps.

I think you need to look at the balance of students at the particular school. At VT about 1/3 of students are in the College of Engineering so there are a whole lot of students who are not.

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I think a lot of people assume it’s majority engineering. It’s not.

+1. It draws the top 10% of our HS’s class (into engineering/CS). And the nothing until top 25%-30%.

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Anonymous wrote:West Coaster here. In my day B/C students went to USC or NYU, C students went to Pepperdine.

We are not interested in your day whatever dat that was.

We are interested in today.

UPenn, Vanderbilt, UChicago, etc had 70% acceptance rate back in the days but totally not relevant

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Anonymous wrote:Schools like

UMBC
VCU
Marymount University
CU Boulder
Georgia Tech
University of Alabama
University of Iowa
Lewis & Clark
Middlebury College
University of New Hampshire
Ohio State
University of Tulsa
University of Nebraska
Arizona State
Chicago Kent
University of Illinois
Michigan State
University of Indiana
North Carolina State
Wake Forest

not Georgia tech, middlebury or wake forest.