3.8 uw private school gpa/odds

[Anonymous]

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 Vanderbilt or Chicago or Dartmouth is nuts.

Beyond hard to get 4.0 at many privates. You are compared to your school….

[Anonymous]

Public school candidates with these 3.95+ grades are a dime a dozen.

Not so in privates at all…lots of 3.8/3.82/3.84 popping up for these schools.

You can see that in the naviance/Scoir Data…

[Anonymous]

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 Vanderbilt 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.

[Anonymous]

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 Vanderbilt or Chicago or Dartmouth is nuts.

Two students have a 4.0 at our school. A 3.8 is amazing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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 Vanderbilt or Chicago or Dartmouth is nuts.

Two students have a 4.0 at our school. A 3.8 is amazing.

+1

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, the T20 schools generally have a single digit admit rate, so rather than ask about odds for one of those schools, your kid should think through the qualities of the schools do they favor and then develop a list of schools that share those qualities.

Big versus Small
Urban versus rural
What part of the country
Semester versus quarter system
specific majors or programs

IOW, there is no planet where someone applies to Dartmouth, Columbia and Brown unless they are nae shopping. All different settings, different types of curriculum etc.

OTOH, a kid who is primarily interested in a strong education (as opposed to location, semester/quarter sytem, etc) in a field available at many schools (physics, economics) may apply to all of them. Different strokes for different folks.

[Anonymous]

Has there always been this discrepancy btw public school and private school GPA? What accounts for it?

Grade inflation?
Size of class?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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 Vanderbilt or Chicago or Dartmouth is nuts.

The thing is that does happen at our private.
ED for Vanderbilt though.

The 3.9+ going to Yale/stanford/Princeton/harvard/duke

+1

[Anonymous]

Does the 3.8 kid have a good shot at Northwestern?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does the 3.8 kid have a good shot at Northwestern?

ED w appropriate major choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does the 3.8 kid have a good shot at Northwestern?

ED w appropriate major choice.

Plus legacy/urm

[Anonymous]

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?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has there always been this discrepancy btw public school and private school GPA? What accounts for it?

Grade inflation?
Size of class?

It started about twenty years ago or more and really accelerated during Covid.

[Anonymous]

“Does the 3.8 kid have a good shot at Northwestern?”

Unlikely. This is why many private school kids ED to privates the next tier down - think Bates, Colby, Tulane. Much more likely admit going full pay ED at one of these types of schools than roll the dice with northwestern.