Where do b students from big 3 schools go?

[Anonymous]

Similar stats. Tad better GPA for DD and 32 ACT with 33 superstore. Top private. Try Tulane, NYU, Boston Univ, and Northeastern. Good chance at a top 40 but not top 20. NYU is top 30. Learn to love it. If in state try W&M. But they grade hard. I am more worried about my other kid who is top GPA and 33 that he will end up lower than where he deserves. We aimed high ED and didn’t make it so stuck with EAs and RDs. They do have one EA u dear the belt so little less reassure.

[Anonymous]

Oh and look at Naviance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Michigan.

Nope.

Yes, Michigan.

[Anonymous]

I apologise for an earlier typo. I should have written:

At Wisconsin, 25 percent get ACT of 27 or below and 25 percent get 32 (not 33) or above. 27-32 is the "middle half."

[Anonymous]

Penn State
Pitt
Michigan
Wisconsin (reach)
UNC (No)
Indiana
Delaware
University SC
NC State
Clemson

[Anonymous]

Forget about the Rose Bowl! The Badgers' ACT stats crush the Ducks'.

Oregon's middle 50 percent on the ACT is only 22-28!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Penn State
Pitt
Michigan
Wisconsin (reach)
UNC (No)
Indiana
Delaware
University SC
NC State
Clemson

This is completely inaccurate. Let me guess, your kid is at public school? Big 3 gpas are much, much lower. No classes are weighted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I apologise for an earlier typo. I should have written:

At Wisconsin, 25 percent get ACT of 27 or below and 25 percent get 32 (not 33) or above. 27-32 is the "middle half."

Not for OOS students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Michigan.

Nope.

Yes, Michigan.

Michigan isn't going to take a 3.0 OOS student unless they are a recruited athlete.

[Anonymous]

OP, what public school posters are saying is irrelevant.
Grades are weird at the Big3 schools.
At ours about the lowest tier colleges anyone attends are schools like Colorado, Northeastern, Vermont etc.
I have the list from last year and these are some of the lowest tier schools on it.
And yet most students have a B average.
Very, very few kids graduate with all As--really just a small handful.

I'm not saying the school is better than or harder than public schools (I have kids in both) but the grading scales are very, very different.
Colleges know this.
It's not uncommon for kids to get Bs or even Cs in the big3.

[Anonymous]

Do the private schools send a class profile which helps colleges to put the GPA into context?
MCPS for instance does not rank students but individual high schools send colleges a class profile for their students which breaks down how many students got straight As for instance. At my kid’s magnet school only 14 of 102 students had straight As.

[Anonymous]

At our Big 3 (which has excellent college counseling), each family receives a sheet of paper which places their child into a grade cohort. The sheet then provides a list of schools where kids in that grade cohort have been accepted during the last three years.

OP - trust your school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do you imbeciles constantly post how many applicants a college receives? The quality of those applicants is the relevant statistic.

Okay. Let’s talk quality in the DMV. My TJ kid with a mix of As and Bs in core classes (4.05W). Nothing below a B, except a B- in Chemistry (not a strong suit) and C+ in a semester math class freshman year. Upward trend in grades. Also male. Also a nice kid. Also strong (nonacademic) ECs. 1520 (749/780) SAT, 3 subject tests in Math 2, physics and Lit, all 740 or over (Math is an 800j.

My kid was deferred by Case Western and we expect a deferral by Northeastern in a couple weeks. Probably stands a 50/50 shot at both in the RD pool. Stronger for Case because they have a great program in his area of senior research that he want to continue and good demonstrated interest so he’s an actual good fit. In at Pitt with some merit and a 25-50 SLACs with great merit. Is most interested in RD schools, so we are waiting. One is WM where he stands a great chance with demonstrated interest and the “boy bump”. Is not competitive for UNC.

But big 3 B students still go every year to UNC. You picked the TJ pressure cooker that kills smart kids chances that are not in the top 10%. Choices.

[Anonymous]

Michigan. Full pay OOS, elite prep = guarantee admission

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Michigan.

Nope.

Yes, Michigan.

Michigan isn't going to take a 3.0 OOS student unless they are a recruited athlete.

Stop exaggerating. “B” is anything below 3.6.