Based on experience - has anyone had DC admitted to a top 20 school with a 3.5 - 3.6 GPA NO HOOKS?
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Anonymous
NP. This seems about right for our Big 3. |
Anonymous
Yes |
Anonymous
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I did not get into top 20. But by far people still ask me many years later how I got into StonyBrook
I had a 76 GPA in HS with a 990 SAT. My Guidance Counselor told me some schools including Harvard at time need a handful of lazy students like me to graduate at bottom of class. Seems the straight A students and Tiger Moms would all kill them selves if were at the bottom of the graduating class so that is why schools needed folks like me. I am proud to report I graduated near bottom of class and I graduated bottom of class grad school. |
Anonymous
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Yes. 1530 GPA and a 3.6 UW/4.3 W GPA.
Got into 2 top 10 SLACs (USNews). White male, non athlete, receives financial aid. |
Anonymous
| Full pay? Willing to apply ED? Might have more luck if so, but all of the top schools are still a reach no matter what. |
Anonymous
Is full pay really going to help a student stand out at a top 20 school? I can't imagine that's the case. I'd think there'd be loads of unhooked kids with better stats than OP's to choose from. |
Anonymous
| Goes without saying that OP's DC should keep OP away from his/her application. |
Anonymous
Isn't it sad that this is the standard we've reached? I heard a mom at a game the other night stressing because her DS "only" had a 3.9 and just "barely" scored over the 1500 mark. |
Anonymous
| Top schools don't look at stand-alone GPA. They break it down according to their own criteria. So GPA may look higher when looked at from that perspective. |
Anonymous
Yep, dependent on school and college counselor. |
Anonymous
I am poster w that DC - it was the school and their rigorous curriculum and the college counselor. In the end DC didn’t pick any of those schools but chose a engineering school instead for the strength of the program rather than the rating of school. A mistake? Time will tell. We are also full pay which gives a little nudge. |
Anonymous
| I think the yeses all attended private schools where there is less grade inflation. |
Anonymous
| Not a chance unless ED full pay...and then only a small chance. |
Anonymous
Mine did as well UVA, Michigan, UNC. Did not apply to Tufts or Wash U. or Notre Dame Got into Pitt, UMD, University of Florida and University of Georgia Your comment is wrong, you don't understand admissions. |
Anonymous
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"I think the yeses all attended private schools where there is less grade inflation."
There are also some magnet kids who have self-driven research who could pull it off. Or is that a hook? |