B Students at St Albans and NCS - where end up?

[Anonymous]

Or Whitman?

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Anonymous wrote:Or Whitman?

Whitman is still the MCPS curriculum. To stand out in the public schools I think you need RMIB or SMAC which has their own separate curriculum...especially SMAC which does not even follow the AP.

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Anonymous wrote:College admissions officers know that a B at these schools is not the same as a B from the average high school. I wouldn't worry for a second.

+100

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Straight B student here at UVA (second year). Yes it really does happen. No offense but many of you sound ridiculous and overly paranoid...trust the process and mostly trust in your kid.

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Wake or Tulane

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Davidson

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Cornell

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Anonymous wrote:My sense is that once one gets beyond the top 1/3 or so of the class, you see more kids attending SLAC and fewer going to large universities.

At the point it seems to depend on whether the kid has a mix of As and Bs or closer to straight Bs.

The A/B kids seem to attend many of the mid-range NEAC colleges (e.g., not Williams and Amherst or Trinity or Conn. Coll.) or Kenyon or Oberlin. If they attend a university it may be Michigan, Tulane, Boston College, Wake Forest, etc.

The straight B kids seem to attend well-regarded, but not top SLACs. Think Dickinson, Gettysburg, Trinity Connecticut College. If they attend a university, it might be BU, Wisconsin, or Northeastern. I.e., sold B students with decent scores get into solid schools.

Do your homework.... You can not get into Tulane University with a B average! 30 ACT, 3.6 GPA plus to be looked at.

Both kids who went to Tulane from my school in my year had B averages. You cannot make broad statements about GPA without taking the quality of the school into account. Yes, from a standard suburban public, you're not getting into Tulane with a 3.6; from St A/NCS? You definitely have a shot.

According to CollegeData - the average GPA at Tulane is a 3.5. And it's safe to assume the vast majority of those are kids from public schools. So yes, many public school kids are getting into Tulane with B averages.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My sense is that once one gets beyond the top 1/3 or so of the class, you see more kids attending SLAC and fewer going to large universities.

At the point it seems to depend on whether the kid has a mix of As and Bs or closer to straight Bs.

The A/B kids seem to attend many of the mid-range NEAC colleges (e.g., not Williams and Amherst or Trinity or Conn. Coll.) or Kenyon or Oberlin. If they attend a university it may be Michigan, Tulane, Boston College, Wake Forest, etc.

The straight B kids seem to attend well-regarded, but not top SLACs. Think Dickinson, Gettysburg, Trinity Connecticut College. If they attend a university, it might be BU, Wisconsin, or Northeastern. I.e., sold B students with decent scores get into solid schools.

Do your homework.... You can not get into Tulane University with a B average! 30 ACT, 3.6 GPA plus to be looked at.

Both kids who went to Tulane from my school in my year had B averages. You cannot make broad statements about GPA without taking the quality of the school into account. Yes, from a standard suburban public, you're not getting into Tulane with a 3.6; from St A/NCS? You definitely have a shot.

According to CollegeData - the average GPA at Tulane is a 3.5. And it's safe to assume the vast majority of those are kids from public schools. So yes, many public school kids are getting into Tulane with B averages.


And keep in mind that many kids at public schools have GPAs well above a 4.0 due to weighted courses. So a 3.5 coming from a public isn't all that.

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Anonymous wrote:A 3.7 from my HS was an A- average. Is that what we're talking about? If so, I was unhooked, but with a perfect 2400 SAT, and got into one of HYP early with that GPA (which put me at just below the top 1/3rd of my class, for context). I had other good things on my resume, obviously, but nothing that would remotely qualify as a "hook." (White female with lawyer parents from NYC.)

You were a legacy at Harvard right?

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Anonymous wrote:College admissions officers know that a B at these schools is not the same as a B from the average high school. I wouldn't worry for a second.

+100

LOL

[Anonymous]

Tulane, SMU, Miami, NYU.

[Anonymous]

And it's safe to assume the vast majority of those are kids from public schools. So yes, many public school kids are getting into Tulane with B averages.

Whatever gave you this idea? Baseless.

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And it's safe to assume the vast majority of those are kids from public schools. So yes, many public school kids are getting into Tulane with B averages.

Whatever gave you this idea? Baseless.

I can't vouch for Tulane. But I know,people,who have attended Ivy's (including Harvard) who say the majority of their peers,were from public schools.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

And it's safe to assume the vast majority of those are kids from public schools. So yes, many public school kids are getting into Tulane with B averages.

Whatever gave you this idea? Baseless.

I can't vouch for Tulane. But I know,people,who have attended Ivy's (including Harvard) who say the majority of their peers,were from public schools.

Harvard is roughly 2/3 public 1/3 private. Majority of kids at every college are from public.....this shouldn't be news to anybody.