Rejections
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Anonymous
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op again
sorry about the typos on my previous post. |
Anonymous
Which OOS public did he apply to? All high reaches? |
Anonymous
Case Western, Ga Tech UMd |
Anonymous
| He was rejected from JMU with those stats? |
Anonymous
Actually he didn’t apply to JMU. |
Anonymous
I don’t know anything about Case Western, but Ga Teach and UMD are reaches with a 3.6uw/4.1w. What schools were targets for him? |
Anonymous
CWRU is private, no? What was his unweighted GPA? |
Anonymous
What were his grades in these 2 APs? These are hard. If scored a 5 in each then you didn't apply to enough colleges. Sometimes (may not apply to your child) people try to take these hard APs for the sake of taking them. if you do well they won't hurt you, but if you bombed them they hurt you. |
Anonymous
| 3.8uw is kind of the minimum……rigor isn’t as important as everyone thinks |
Anonymous
This is not correct. GPA in relation to your school IS very important but at the level your kid was gunning for, so are: impact, ECs, leadership, etc. I am guessing a 4.45 was not the top of the HS (our FCPS this year had a top of a 4.6+). Were the ECs amazing? When you have good stats, though, at the level of ivies, there is a baseline and if you cross that, they ask what else do ya got? So even if the 4.45 crossed that baseline, I suspect the ECs were not at the expected level for these schools. |
Anonymous
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3.58 is not awful, but it likely raises questions about the disparity between the SAT and GPA. What was his class rank (roughly)?
As PP mentioned, not sure why you thought GA Tech, for example, was anything other than a reach. UIUC and UMD are competitive for specific majors and CWRU is no slouch either. Sounds like you were missing the middle of the college list. The 4-5 schools where both GPA and SAT were in range where he almost certainly would have gotten into one or two at least. |
Anonymous
That was a mistake, he would have had a good safety option. |
Anonymous
Which schools were these? Thanks. |
Anonymous
Minimum for what? Many kids get into college with lower GPAs than a 3.8uw. The problem seems to be that OP’s kid applied to 2 safeties and bunch of reaches. Why would he apply to VCU and GMU but not JMU? Is OP trolling? |
Anonymous
| Having such a high SAT score with a relatively low GPA makes him look low effort. |