Where did your 3.6 GPA child get in?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Unweighted, Private and plays two sports, but only one at a high level/year round.

Please share weighted GPA, test scores, and level of rigor (number of APs. how many are rigorous (AP BC Calc) vs. not (AP capstone).

Privates don’t have weighted gpa ppl

Some do, some don’t. You can estimate by adding .5 for honors course grades and adding 1 for AP, then recalculate the GPA.

Not so much at our private where there are no "AP classes....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Unweighted, Private and plays two sports, but only one at a high level/year round.

Please share weighted GPA, test scores, and level of rigor (number of APs. how many are rigorous (AP BC Calc) vs. not (AP capstone).

Privates don’t have weighted gpa ppl

Some do, some don’t. You can estimate by adding .5 for honors course grades and adding 1 for AP, then recalculate the GPA.

Not so much at our private where there are no "AP classes....

Sure, but that wasn’t what I was answering.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Unweighted, Private and plays two sports, but only one at a high level/year round.

Please share weighted GPA, test scores, and level of rigor (number of APs. how many are rigorous (AP BC Calc) vs. not (AP capstone).

Privates don’t have weighted gpa ppl

Some do, some don’t. You can estimate by adding .5 for honors course grades and adding 1 for AP, then recalculate the GPA.

Not so much at our private where there are no "AP classes....

advanced =AP. You need to ask the school how they will handle this compared to students who do not take these classes if there is no weighted GPA. It is up to parents to discuss.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Try:
Case Western
NYU
Tufts (ED?)
Lehigh
Wake
Santa Clara

Not getting in any of these schools with a 3.6 even ED, except maybe Santa Clara.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Try:
Case Western
NYU
Tufts (ED?)
Lehigh
Wake
Santa Clara

Not getting in any of these schools with a 3.6 even ED, except maybe Santa Clara.

I’m adding I have two kids who either attend or attended an an academically rigorous private, one of whom just finished their freshman year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC has a 3.6 and very high aspirations. I think he needs to look at Top 50 as his reaches but I'm told I don't know what I'm talking about. So just checking here out of curiosity to see if I'm really that off base. Can he get into a Top 20 with a 3.6?

T20 - No.
T50 - Absolutely!

[Anonymous]

Did you see this 3.6 ED from private - in an Emory.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/135/1193637.page

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC has a 3.6 and very high aspirations. I think he needs to look at Top 50 as his reaches but I'm told I don't know what I'm talking about. So just checking here out of curiosity to see if I'm really that off base. Can he get into a Top 20 with a 3.6?

T20 - No.
T50 - Absolutely!

3.6 from our private gets in to Wake ED; NYU ED2; Case (EA - lots of interest); and possibly
Lehigh
Bucknell
(depending on who else is applying)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did you see this 3.6 ED from private - in an Emory.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/135/1193637.page

Compelling personal history? This kid has a hook, a normal 3.6 would not be admitted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC has a 3.6 and very high aspirations. I think he needs to look at Top 50 as his reaches but I'm told I don't know what I'm talking about. So just checking here out of curiosity to see if I'm really that off base. Can he get into a Top 20 with a 3.6?

T20 - No.
T50 - Absolutely!

3.6 from our private gets in to Wake ED; NYU ED2; Case (EA - lots of interest); and possibly
Lehigh
Bucknell
(depending on who else is applying)

As I said, not high enough GPA at ours and we send a ton of kids to T20. Perhaps op should check naviance/scoir for her son’s school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC has a 3.6 and very high aspirations. I think he needs to look at Top 50 as his reaches but I'm told I don't know what I'm talking about. So just checking here out of curiosity to see if I'm really that off base. Can he get into a Top 20 with a 3.6?

T20 - No.
T50 - Absolutely!

3.6 from our private gets in to Wake ED; NYU ED2; Case (EA - lots of interest); and possibly
Lehigh
Bucknell
(depending on who else is applying)

WF is a 3.8 at our private's SCOIR/Naviance data. No 3.6 have been admitted in at least 5 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC has a 3.6 and very high aspirations. I think he needs to look at Top 50 as his reaches but I'm told I don't know what I'm talking about. So just checking here out of curiosity to see if I'm really that off base. Can he get into a Top 20 with a 3.6?

T20 - No.
T50 - Absolutely!

3.6 from our private gets in to Wake ED; NYU ED2; Case (EA - lots of interest); and possibly
Lehigh
Bucknell
(depending on who else is applying)

WF is a 3.8 at our private's SCOIR/Naviance data. No 3.6 have been admitted in at least 5 years.

I can add that Lehigh and Bucknell are definitely possible. Bucknell goes down to a 3.3-3.4 with ED (in the past 2 years). Lehigh similar.

Wake is not. Emory is not. Those are 3.75+ schools, even with ED (from our private school.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC has a 3.6 and very high aspirations. I think he needs to look at Top 50 as his reaches but I'm told I don't know what I'm talking about. So just checking here out of curiosity to see if I'm really that off base. Can he get into a Top 20 with a 3.6?

T20 - No.
T50 - Absolutely!

3.6 from our private gets in to Wake ED; NYU ED2; Case (EA - lots of interest); and possibly
Lehigh
Bucknell
(depending on who else is applying)

WF is a 3.8 at our private's SCOIR/Naviance data. No 3.6 have been admitted in at least 5 years.

I can add that Lehigh and Bucknell are definitely possible. Bucknell goes down to a 3.3-3.4 with ED (in the past 2 years). Lehigh similar.

Wake is not. Emory is not. Those are 3.75+ schools, even with ED (from our private school.)

Private is not worth it if you can't even get into Wake Forest with a 3.8 that you had to work for. That said there is nothing wrong with Bucknell or Lehigh and those are good schools for engineering, but still feel for a kid who had to work his but off and parents who paid 200 K to say their kid is going to Bucknell.

[Anonymous]

Focusing on GPA is misplaced. Focus on where you are within your class. A 3.6 GPA could be great at one school and not at another. My kid got into two Ivys with a 3.6 from a top private. I don't think that would have been the case coming out of a DC public.

[Anonymous]

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