Where do "B" average Big-3 students go to college?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know someone who graduated at the bottom of their class at Potomac and attended IU Bloomington. Graduated in four years and got an internship/job through his dad’s friend in the DC area.

Indiana is a wonderful school, although not selective. Certainly a great choice.

Kelly is very selective. No dog in tbis fight but it is a hard b school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DS is an OK student at a Big-3 (Sidwell/GDS/StA)--B average, with a good number of AP/honors/"upper level" courses. SATs average for the school (1400s). Let's assume no hook, or small hook. Full pay (no FA or scholarship needed.) Will probably write a strong essay, but not astonishingly good. What are typical target schools for this kind of student? Thank you!

Good number ie mostly AP? There is a difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DS is an OK student at a Big-3 (Sidwell/GDS/StA)--B average, with a good number of AP/honors/"upper level" courses. SATs average for the school (1400s). Let's assume no hook, or small hook. Full pay (no FA or scholarship needed.) Will probably write a strong essay, but not astonishingly good. What are typical target schools for this kind of student? Thank you!

Good number ie mostly AP? There is a difference.

The big 3's no longer offer most Ap's so either you are a troll or your kid too upper level classes and self-studied....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Use CollegeVine to create a list of schools that are targets in your child’s preferred geographic area.

Do they want big or small?

What do they want to study?

WVU
ASU
U of SC

SUNY —Buffalo not Binghamton

Ursinus
Utica
Clark — maybe
Susquehanna
Muhlenberg
Juniata
Kalamazoo—maybe
NEU—full pay will help and your kid could be accepted to a side program where the GPA doesn’t affect the school’s rankings

Eckerd, if marine biology desired
Hollins, if female

If female: Mount Holyoke or Bryan Mawr—full pay will help

Others: UNH, U Maine, U Rhode Island, U Mass Amherst


I included a mix of large and small.

These are all below where B students from a Big3 attend.

Agreed I am a big 3 parent of a senior and that list is a joke. That list is for the bottom of the class. B students at B 3's do better than that- ever now. My kid's B student friends are going to Colorado, Vassar, Tulane, Even one to a UC school and one connected one is going to a top 20 school. A lower B average without rigor maybe to Alabama or U of SC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Use CollegeVine to create a list of schools that are targets in your child’s preferred geographic area.

Do they want big or small?

What do they want to study?

WVU
ASU
U of SC

SUNY —Buffalo not Binghamton

Ursinus
Utica
Clark — maybe
Susquehanna
Muhlenberg
Juniata
Kalamazoo—maybe
NEU—full pay will help and your kid could be accepted to a side program where the GPA doesn’t affect the school’s rankings

Eckerd, if marine biology desired
Hollins, if female

If female: Mount Holyoke or Bryan Mawr—full pay will help

Others: UNH, U Maine, U Rhode Island, U Mass Amherst


I included a mix of large and small.

These are all below where B students from a Big3 attend.

Agreed I am a big 3 parent of a senior and that list is a joke. That list is for the bottom of the class. B students at B 3's do better than that- ever now. My kid's B student friends are going to Colorado, Vassar, Tulane, Even one to a UC school and one connected one is going to a top 20 school. A lower B average without rigor maybe to Alabama or U of SC.

Or parents Alma Mater if they donated sufficient funds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:B students from STA getting rejected from schools like Wake, Tulane, UVM, etc. Things have changed. If you are a B student you have to look lower on the list or hope your school has a good connection with an admissions office at SLAC. Colleges are overwhelmed with applications and often (especially at the larger popular schools) eliminate first round based on GPA. Kids are competing against public school kids with straight As.

This shows a basic misunderstanding of how admissions works. Admissions officers are generally very familiar with each school’s particular profile, which they use to evaluate students. A student from a top 3 private isn’t going to be compared at face value to a student from a large public school. It’s not all about GPA and rigor. It’s about whether and how the student used the resources available to them. I think we all know that grade inflation is a major trend at public schools; that’s just not true at elite private schools. Sorry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You chose private school for college admissions? Really? I am a private school grad and parent and I can't imagine paying 60k/ year for a vague promise of college admissions. I chose private for the education quality and overall experience. I think the college admissions are just related to the caliber of students in the school + wealth + connected parents.

Agree. We pay for private school bc our kids will spend almost half of their lives at school and we want to choose a nurturing, supportive community to helps us raise them. Regardless of where our kids end up at college, private school has been a worthwhile investment.

Anonymous wrote:Thinking ahead, I am wondering how long it will take for private high schools that grade harder to change their ways. While there certainly can be reasons to choose private high schools, it sounds like college admissions isn't one of them anymore. That's got to affect recruiting at these high schools eventually. Why pay when you can do as well or better in college admissions from a public high school, and do those reasons weigh heavily enough? The answer will differ by kid and family, but those living in an area with decent-but-not-even-stellar publics may find themselves leaning toward the public to the extent they heavily weigh college admissions outcomes.

We've been down this road with a private high school (not in the DC area), with older kid 3.4/1500, during the first admission season of test optional. A bit rough. Naviance was all wrong, as far as attempting to predict results. Our next kid attends a public with much easier grading but much weaker variety of EC options. Hard to guess on teaching quality, probably similar. Also similar average test scores between the schools. The private wasn't really worth it. Last kid will attend the private for other reasons (friends and activities), but we are wary of the grading situation - kid will have to tend to the GPA carefully.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Use CollegeVine to create a list of schools that are targets in your child’s preferred geographic area.

Do they want big or small?

What do they want to study?

WVU
ASU
U of SC

SUNY —Buffalo not Binghamton

Ursinus
Utica
Clark — maybe
Susquehanna
Muhlenberg
Juniata
Kalamazoo—maybe
NEU—full pay will help and your kid could be accepted to a side program where the GPA doesn’t affect the school’s rankings

Eckerd, if marine biology desired
Hollins, if female

If female: Mount Holyoke or Bryan Mawr—full pay will help

Others: UNH, U Maine, U Rhode Island, U Mass Amherst


I included a mix of large and small.

These are all below where B students from a Big3 attend.

Agreed I am a big 3 parent of a senior and that list is a joke. That list is for the bottom of the class. B students at B 3's do better than that- ever now. My kid's B student friends are going to Colorado, Vassar, Tulane, Even one to a UC school and one connected one is going to a top 20 school. A lower B average without rigor maybe to Alabama or U of SC.

Or parents Alma Mater if they donated sufficient funds.

About right. For Tulane, ED.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Use CollegeVine to create a list of schools that are targets in your child’s preferred geographic area.

Do they want big or small?

What do they want to study?

WVU
ASU
U of SC

SUNY —Buffalo not Binghamton

Ursinus
Utica
Clark — maybe
Susquehanna
Muhlenberg
Juniata
Kalamazoo—maybe
NEU—full pay will help and your kid could be accepted to a side program where the GPA doesn’t affect the school’s rankings

Eckerd, if marine biology desired
Hollins, if female

If female: Mount Holyoke or Bryan Mawr—full pay will help

Others: UNH, U Maine, U Rhode Island, U Mass Amherst


I included a mix of large and small.

These are all below where B students from a Big3 attend.

Agreed I am a big 3 parent of a senior and that list is a joke. That list is for the bottom of the class. B students at B 3's do better than that- ever now. My kid's B student friends are going to Colorado, Vassar, Tulane, Even one to a UC school and one connected one is going to a top 20 school. A lower B average without rigor maybe to Alabama or U of SC.

About right. For Tulane, ED.

[Anonymous]

Radford

[Texanviadelco]

Tossing in several private research universities that are in the same D3 athletic conference as UChicago, WashU, NYU and Emory including Brandeis U, Case Western and URochester. All three have acceptance rates close to 40% but high median SATs. Meh weather in the winter for Case and URochester with lake effect snow and gray. But the academics are outstanding. And Case is in the vibrant University Circle section of Cleveland. I attended both Carnegie Mellon and UChicago before they got blazingly hot for admissions so look beyond the usual suspects for gems. Case Western and URochester are peers or better than Tulane regarding student outcomes but much less difficult to gain entry.

[Anonymous]

Texanviadelco wrote:Tossing in several private research universities that are in the same D3 athletic conference as UChicago, WashU, NYU and Emory including Brandeis U, Case Western and URochester. All three have acceptance rates close to 40% but high median SATs. Meh weather in the winter for Case and URochester with lake effect snow and gray. But the academics are outstanding. And Case is in the vibrant University Circle section of Cleveland. I attended both Carnegie Mellon and UChicago before they got blazingly hot for admissions so look beyond the usual suspects for gems. Case Western and URochester are peers or better than Tulane regarding student outcomes but much less difficult to gain entry.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DS is an OK student at a Big-3 (Sidwell/GDS/StA)--B average, with a good number of AP/honors/"upper level" courses. SATs average for the school (1400s). Let's assume no hook, or small hook. Full pay (no FA or scholarship needed.) Will probably write a strong essay, but not astonishingly good. What are typical target schools for this kind of student? Thank you!

B avg is tough. Even for Big-3.


But ED at Tulane, Miami.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Use CollegeVine to create a list of schools that are targets in your child’s preferred geographic area.

Do they want big or small?

What do they want to study?

WVU
ASU
U of SC

SUNY —Buffalo not Binghamton

Ursinus
Utica
Clark — maybe
Susquehanna
Muhlenberg
Juniata
Kalamazoo—maybe
NEU—full pay will help and your kid could be accepted to a side program where the GPA doesn’t affect the school’s rankings

Eckerd, if marine biology desired
Hollins, if female

If female: Mount Holyoke or Bryan Mawr—full pay will help

Others: UNH, U Maine, U Rhode Island, U Mass Amherst


I included a mix of large and small.

These are all below where B students from a Big3 attend.

Agreed I am a big 3 parent of a senior and that list is a joke. That list is for the bottom of the class. B students at B 3's do better than that- ever now. My kid's B student friends are going to Colorado, Vassar, Tulane, Even one to a UC school and one connected one is going to a top 20 school. A lower B average without rigor maybe to Alabama or U of SC.

UofSC is much better than Alabama, idiot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know someone who graduated at the bottom of their class at Potomac and attended IU Bloomington. Graduated in four years and got an internship/job through his dad’s friend in the DC area.

Indiana is a wonderful school, although not selective. Certainly a great choice.

Kelly is very selective. No dog in tbis fight but it is a hard b school.

. With today’s GPA grade inflation, all you need is a 30 ACT to be an auto admit….that is NOT VERY SELECTIVE.