Post-Varsity Blues, where do the UC send their kids if they end up being average academically?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Elon
Colorado College
Elon

Tulane
Sewanee
Rhodes
Furman

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I’m saying what if a UC kid gets a 1100 SAT and is a C student. What do they do in 2021?

There are 4000 colleges and universities in this country. There is a place for everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I’m saying what if a UC kid gets a 1100 SAT and is a C student. What do they do in 2021?

I have an average student. He got mainly B and C grades. He only received an A in PE and some other electives he was able to pick. Core classes, the ones he was required to take for graduation that he had zero interest in, he received a C. Those he had a bit of interest in, like history, he'd get a B.

Anyway, his SAT was just slightly higher than that at 1240. He hates taking long standardized tests. His GPA when applying was 2.3 and his end of the year GPA was 2.4.

Here are the colleges he applied to and the results:

JMU (waitlisted - he didn't want to go here, but his girlfriend wanted him to apply b/c she's going there)
GMU (waitlisted then accepted)
WVU - accepted
CNU - accepted
ODU - accepted
LSU - accepted
Pitt - accepted
Univ. of Kansas - accepted
Co. State Univ. - accepted
FSU (his reach) - rejected

So, as you can see, there are still some decent universities for average students.

Wow, Pitt is really unexpected, the middle SAT has him below the 25%ile and GPA is far below the weighted 25%ile of 3.75. And that's not even factoring OOS. Is the 2.3 weighted? It's below what some of the listed schools say is the minimum required GPA.

That's the power of a "full pay" kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Elon
Colorado College

Colorado College has a sub 15% admissions rate and stats to get in are very competive. Certainly not for a student with "average" stats. Elon may be out of range these days too.

[Anonymous]

Oxy
Hobart and William Smith
Franklin & Marshall
Lewis & Clark
Colorado St
Montana St
SMU
TCU
Forman
Sewanee
Elon
American

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I’m saying what if a UC kid gets a 1100 SAT and is a C student. What do they do in 2021?

I have an average student. He got mainly B and C grades. He only received an A in PE and some other electives he was able to pick. Core classes, the ones he was required to take for graduation that he had zero interest in, he received a C. Those he had a bit of interest in, like history, he'd get a B.

Anyway, his SAT was just slightly higher than that at 1240. He hates taking long standardized tests. His GPA when applying was 2.3 and his end of the year GPA was 2.4.

Here are the colleges he applied to and the results:

JMU (waitlisted - he didn't want to go here, but his girlfriend wanted him to apply b/c she's going there)
GMU (waitlisted then accepted)
WVU - accepted
CNU - accepted
ODU - accepted
LSU - accepted
Pitt - accepted
Univ. of Kansas - accepted
Co. State Univ. - accepted
FSU (his reach) - rejected

So, as you can see, there are still some decent universities for average students.

OP - very helpful - TY for sharing.

What? I’m the actual OP. Lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I’m saying what if a UC kid gets a 1100 SAT and is a C student. What do they do in 2021?

There are 4000 colleges and universities in this country. There is a place for everyone.

I know but I’m talking about the very wealthy who aren’t going to mesh with the riff raff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oxy
Hobart and William Smith
Franklin & Marshall
Lewis & Clark
Colorado St
Montana St
SMU
TCU
Forman
Sewanee
Elon
American

Franklin and Marshall: highly doubtful

[Anonymous]

Conn College?
Oxy?
Elon
Ursinus
UMBC?
SMCM

[Anonymous]

Probably outdated here on some of these but here’s some wild guesses:

UMiami
Tulane
GWU
Syracuse
Hobart and William Smith
Connecticut College
U of Vermont
Trinity College
Penn State
Hampden-Sydney
Mount Holyoke

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I’m saying what if a UC kid gets a 1100 SAT and is a C student. What do they do in 2021?

Most colleges and universities accept most kids who have some chance of succeeding in college. They just charge the really weak students, by not providing merit aid.

So, any peaceful student who has a GPA over 2.5 and can actually pay $80,000 per year all in for school can probably get in to just about all but 200 U.S. private colleges and universities.

[Anonymous]

I know a lot of kids of the UC who attended unremarkable schools I hadn’t heard of. The idea that they’re all buying prestige admissions is wrong and actually reflects your UMC view of the world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I’m saying what if a UC kid gets a 1100 SAT and is a C student. What do they do in 2021?

There are 4000 colleges and universities in this country. There is a place for everyone.

I know but I’m talking about the very wealthy who aren’t going to mesh with the riff raff.

Truly wealthy people can send their so so kids to alternative private schools without grades. They either maneuver them into easy programs at fun state schools or classy but broke private schools, or they get them into programs aimed at kids with learning disabilities.

[Anonymous]

And a kid like this does not need the pressure of being shoehorned into some school where he is in the bottom quarter. That is not in his best interest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I’m saying what if a UC kid gets a 1100 SAT and is a C student. What do they do in 2021?

There are 4000 colleges and universities in this country. There is a place for everyone.

I know but I’m talking about the very wealthy who aren’t going to mesh with the riff raff.

Truly wealthy people can send their so so kids to alternative private schools without grades. They either maneuver them into easy programs at fun state schools or classy but broke private schools, or they get them into programs aimed at kids with learning disabilities.

I see you’ve posted multiple times in a row here.