B/c student-college ideas

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kid graduated with 3.0 from one of the big 3 private schools, and got rejected by UVA. He spent a year at NVCC, got a 4.0 there. He transferred to UVA after his freshman year via the Guaranteed Admission Program. He is now a junior at UVA with a 3.9 GPA there.

He said that classes at the big 3 private schools are much harder than UVA. Classes at NVCC are ten times easier than classes at the big 3.

I have been debating sending my kid to NVCC partly just to see his "Big 3" go apoplectic. In the years we have been at this school, not once have I seen community college on the matriculation list. We are so disappointed with the our kid's results so far (no acceptances yet), that I am about to say forget it and do CC for a year then figure it out. I think the school will not even know what to do with themselves. How did they react when your kid did that?

PP with the kid at one of the big 3 private schools. I told the school nothing because they don’t need to know.

[Anonymous]

^^^ I also would like to add that my kid got a first class education at one of the big 3 private schools. No regrets. Every kid is different with a different path to success.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid graduated with 3.0 from one of the big 3 private schools, and got rejected by UVA. He spent a year at NVCC, got a 4.0 there. He transferred to UVA after his freshman year via the Guaranteed Admission Program. He is now a junior at UVA with a 3.9 GPA there.

He said that classes at the big 3 private schools are much harder than UVA. Classes at NVCC are ten times easier than classes at the big 3.

I have been debating sending my kid to NVCC partly just to see his "Big 3" go apoplectic. In the years we have been at this school, not once have I seen community college on the matriculation list. We are so disappointed with the our kid's results so far (no acceptances yet), that I am about to say forget it and do CC for a year then figure it out. I think the school will not even know what to do with themselves. How did they react when your kid did that?

PP with the kid at one of the big 3 private schools. I told the school nothing because they don’t need to know.

At our Big 3, lots of kids go to a lower ranked school for their first year of college and then transfer to UVA, Vanderbilt, etc. for second year. Very hard for kids with a 3.4 at a big 3 to get into these schools directly, but a ton transfer for year 2. I personally know of 3 kids that transferred into UVA year 2, 1 moved to Yale, 1 to Vandy, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid graduated with 3.0 from one of the big 3 private schools, and got rejected by UVA. He spent a year at NVCC, got a 4.0 there. He transferred to UVA after his freshman year via the Guaranteed Admission Program. He is now a junior at UVA with a 3.9 GPA there.

He said that classes at the big 3 private schools are much harder than UVA. Classes at NVCC are ten times easier than classes at the big 3.

Perhaps this happened under an older set of rules, but this is not how guaranteed admissions at uva currently works. The kids need 54 credits, 45 earned at the community college-- they must earn an AA degree, and then they only have 4 semesters to finish at UVA. Other guaranteed admissions schools don't have such strict rules, but UVA makes it difficult.

You could, of course, transfer in after 1 or 2 semesters, but it wouldn't be via the GA route.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid graduated with 3.0 from one of the big 3 private schools, and got rejected by UVA. He spent a year at NVCC, got a 4.0 there. He transferred to UVA after his freshman year via the Guaranteed Admission Program. He is now a junior at UVA with a 3.9 GPA there.

He said that classes at the big 3 private schools are much harder than UVA. Classes at NVCC are ten times easier than classes at the big 3.

I have been debating sending my kid to NVCC partly just to see his "Big 3" go apoplectic. In the years we have been at this school, not once have I seen community college on the matriculation list. We are so disappointed with the our kid's results so far (no acceptances yet), that I am about to say forget it and do CC for a year then figure it out. I think the school will not even know what to do with themselves. How did they react when your kid did that?

Parent of a Big 3 junior and this very well may be our plan.

[Anonymous]

Op first ignore all public school GPAs. Work with your schools college counselor. Some schools I would recommend trying are Bard, Sarah Lawrence, Goucher, Bennington, Emerson, maybe Dickinson. There are actually many schools that will work. My kid with only slightly better grades is doing better in college than high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid graduated with 3.0 from one of the big 3 private schools, and got rejected by UVA. He spent a year at NVCC, got a 4.0 there. He transferred to UVA after his freshman year via the Guaranteed Admission Program. He is now a junior at UVA with a 3.9 GPA there.

He said that classes at the big 3 private schools are much harder than UVA. Classes at NVCC are ten times easier than classes at the big 3.

I have been debating sending my kid to NVCC partly just to see his "Big 3" go apoplectic. In the years we have been at this school, not once have I seen community college on the matriculation list. We are so disappointed with the our kid's results so far (no acceptances yet), that I am about to say forget it and do CC for a year then figure it out. I think the school will not even know what to do with themselves. How did they react when your kid did that?

PP with the kid at one of the big 3 private schools. I told the school nothing because they don’t need to know.

At our Big 3, lots of kids go to a lower ranked school for their first year of college and then transfer to UVA, Vanderbilt, etc. for second year. Very hard for kids with a 3.4 at a big 3 to get into these schools directly, but a ton transfer for year 2. I personally know of 3 kids that transferred into UVA year 2, 1 moved to Yale, 1 to Vandy, etc.

This is a win win situation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There are a few good options in the Mid Atlantic and even more good options in the Midwest. Check CTCL.org.

Goucher, Washington, Allegheny, Juniata, Knox, Earlham, Beloit, Kalamazoo, Lawrence, Denison and Ohio Wesleyan come to mind.

Some of those may be too selective or too hard once you're there. But you may be able to find a decent fit at some of them.

The average GPA of Juniata admits if 3.76

Common data sets have a number just below that average GPA that shows you the percentage of admitted students included in the average. Juniata is 87%. They also don't tell you how it is calculated. On our school's Naviance, the average GPA for that school is much, much lower.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Providence
Dayton
Ohio Wesleyan

You need higher grades for Providence.

Not true from our school's naviance (zero rejections, even kids with below a 3.0).

OP, a private school with very tough grading and no weighting, where really smart students get Bs/Cs, will have different GPA admissions statistics than the local public schools. (For example, some prep schools' median GPA for HYPS admitted kids is 3.8). You cannot get your information from random sources like this. You have to talk to your college counselor and look at your school's scattergrams on Naviance. GPAs are not apple to apple comparisons because schools grade so differently. The same GPA can be "likely admit" from HS A, but "no shot" from HS B.

If you want that excuse what about SAT and AP results?

OP didn't give that data, which is why she is being told that GPA alone is not enough to make a recommendation.

[Anonymous]

Op here ... she is taking her first test in May.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op first ignore all public school GPAs. Work with your schools college counselor. Some schools I would recommend trying are Bard, Sarah Lawrence, Goucher, Bennington, Emerson, maybe Dickinson. There are actually many schools that will work. My kid with only slightly better grades is doing better in college than high school.

Thank you!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are a few good options in the Mid Atlantic and even more good options in the Midwest. Check CTCL.org.

Goucher, Washington, Allegheny, Juniata, Knox, Earlham, Beloit, Kalamazoo, Lawrence, Denison and Ohio Wesleyan come to mind.

Some of those may be too selective or too hard once you're there. But you may be able to find a decent fit at some of them.

The average GPA of Juniata admits if 3.76

Common data sets have a number just below that average GPA that shows you the percentage of admitted students included in the average. Juniata is 87%. They also don't tell you how it is calculated. On our school's Naviance, the average GPA for that school is much, much lower.

But isn't that because Naviance just shows you data from your own HS's applicants to each college?

[Anonymous]

Mine has a 3.5w and a 1250. He is applying to...

VCU
CNU
ODU
Radford
East Carolina
Coastal Carolina
UNC Charlotte

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op first ignore all public school GPAs. Work with your schools college counselor. Some schools I would recommend trying are Bard, Sarah Lawrence, Goucher, Bennington, Emerson, maybe Dickinson. There are actually many schools that will work. My kid with only slightly better grades is doing better in college than high school.

Also: Hollies, Mount Holyoke and other women’s colleges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are a few good options in the Mid Atlantic and even more good options in the Midwest. Check CTCL.org.

Goucher, Washington, Allegheny, Juniata, Knox, Earlham, Beloit, Kalamazoo, Lawrence, Denison and Ohio Wesleyan come to mind.

Some of those may be too selective or too hard once you're there. But you may be able to find a decent fit at some of them.

The average GPA of Juniata admits if 3.76

Common data sets have a number just below that average GPA that shows you the percentage of admitted students included in the average. Juniata is 87%. They also don't tell you how it is calculated. On our school's Naviance, the average GPA for that school is much, much lower.

But isn't that because Naviance just shows you data from your own HS's applicants to each college?

It does. That's the point: the college's overall average doesn't matter -- the stats for kids they take from your own school does.