Where did your UW 4.0 kid go to college?

[Anonymous]

4.0 UW, 1520 SAT, Vanderbilt

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:4.0 UW GPA and 1600 SAT

Berkeley OOS w/ Regents.

This is impressive and makes me wondering if my high stats DC should consider UC schools (I really don't want to pay OOS tuition for a state school and we are not in Calif). What does the Regents cover? All of the OOS tuition or just part of it? What other schools did your DC consider?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:4.0 UWGPA, 1560 SAT, 16 APs
Attends Stanford; Berkeley Regents & USC Presidential Scholar

Child spent very little time on academics (1.5-2 hrs of schoolwork/night, did not prep for SAT exam, anything above 1550+ is excellent so don't waste time on the 1600). Bulk of time was spent on extracurricular activities.

Congrats! What type of extracurriculars? Did your DC apply early anywhere? what were the safety schools (not that they needed it)?

[Anonymous]

4.0uw 36ACT Brown

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS 4.0/4.5, 1560 UMD (CS)

you must have money to waste, would have been better for vtech, UVA or even gmu

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:4.0 UW GPA and 1600 SAT

Berkeley OOS w/ Regents.

1600 doesn’t matter since they are test blind, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:4.0 UW, 1550 SAT

Stanford

He had incredible extracurriculars and we curated his application starting from freshman year. I had a relative that was a former admissions officer at Penn, Vanderbilt, and Duke. We knew what we were doing.

Sounds stress-free

[Anonymous]

4.0 UW, 1550, UMD CS

[Anonymous]

4.0, 1580 Amherst

[Anonymous]

3.1, 1250 UVA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:4.0 UW, 1550 SAT

Stanford

He had incredible extracurriculars and we curated his application starting from freshman year. I had a relative that was a former admissions officer at Penn, Vanderbilt, and Duke. We knew what we were doing.

That’s what memories are made of!
Rosebud indeed.

[Anonymous]

4.0, 35 ACT, 13 AP (majority 5s). University of Maryland

[Anonymous]

Genuine question: with school districts like FCPS not showing anywhere what the UW GPA is and showing only the lettered grade on their report card, how do you calculate your DCs UW GPA?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:4.0 UW, 1550 SAT

Stanford

He had incredible extracurriculars and we curated his application starting from freshman year. I had a relative that was a former admissions officer at Penn, Vanderbilt, and Duke. We knew what we were doing.

Sounds stress-free

At least the poor kid managed to get as far away as he could.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS 4.0/4.5, 1560 UMD (CS)

you must have money to waste, would have been better for vtech, UVA or even gmu

NP. You do realize it's possible the kid didn't apply to those schools--or did apply to one or more and didn't get in. Why not hold off on judgy comments when you really don't know just about anything about this family?