School Suggestions

[Anonymous]

PP here with the ?s. My son was an upward trend student too, with straight As junior year but it did not help him much in the top 50. What is the rigor of her classwork like? AP/Honors?IB? What is her WGPA?

[Anonymous]

Give her a deadline of July 1 to provide a list of 10 schools. She researches. She chooses (doesn't mean she has to keep these schools .. just force the issue) SHE needs to confront her true, inner-most feelings (and not just avoid, and find fault) This is on her. The list of 10 is a starting point, a starting point of discussion. She owes this to you.

[Anonymous]

My DD is in the same boat - same sort of stats, some general interests, and same aversion to giant publics and tiny liberal arts. I'll be following this thread. She's also a junior.

[Anonymous]

William and Mary might be worth a look. I think Vanderbilt would be a real long shot of the ones mentioned earlier. Their admit rate this year was 9% and average SAT was like a 1530 or something like that. Ice Emory and Georgetown are reaches, then Vanderbilt definitely is.

BC, Fordham and Wake are good suggestions.Tufts, too, although that might be a reach, as well. University of Richmond, Villanova might be other options, too. Lehigh? Bucknell?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Will you be full pay? Do you have a target budget all-in? Is 3.8 W or UW? Coming from public or private and in which state or DC?

OP here. Full pay. MCPS. Unweighted.

Also GPA is on “upward trend.” Straight As junior year (unless second semester is pass fail which is looking increasingly likely).

3.8 UW is good. What’s the weighted GPA?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Will you be full pay? Do you have a target budget all-in? Is 3.8 W or UW? Coming from public or private and in which state or DC?

OP here. Full pay. MCPS. Unweighted.

Also GPA is on “upward trend.” Straight As junior year (unless second semester is pass fail which is looking increasingly likely).

3.8 UW is good. What’s the weighted GPA?

4.6 w/ second semester junior year but 4.5 without. Expected to have 10 APs by graduation (six completed so far).

[Anonymous]

Rice

[Anonymous]

That was my ds. He had a 3.8 and a 33 and ended up liking the mid size research universities best. His tops were Wake Forest, University of Rochester, and Lehigh. He was accepted at all 3 and chose Lehigh. He’s a rising junior and loves it.

[Anonymous]

Tulane
College of Charleston
Elon
Pitt
Fordham
University of San Diego

What about Canada? University of Toronto, McGill, UBC could fit the bill maybe

On second thought, how would the student feel about a public that isn’t in a college town? I was thinking along the lines of University of Washington or Minnesota.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:William and Mary might be worth a look. I think Vanderbilt would be a real long shot of the ones mentioned earlier. Their admit rate this year was 9% and average SAT was like a 1530 or something like that. Ice Emory and Georgetown are reaches, then Vanderbilt definitely is.

BC, Fordham and Wake are good suggestions.Tufts, too, although that might be a reach, as well. University of Richmond, Villanova might be other options, too. Lehigh? Bucknell?

I was also going to suggest Villanova. Also maybe Miami of Florida.

[Anonymous]

Second Tufts as a suggestion.

She needs some safeties and match schools. The five (soon to be 4) college consortium in MA (Smith, Amherst, Mt. Holyoke, and UMASS) might work.

Rochester, Boston College, and Villanova might be good matches.

The New School, Christopher Newport, and the College of New Jersey might be possible safeties.