Where are the parents of average kids at?

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Anonymous wrote:I’d send them as far south as they’re willing to go. Getting away from the crowd here, and their spawn, should be priority numero uno.

Why would I send my dc far south?

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Anonymous wrote:They are enjoying the start of senior year and planning to apply to great colleges like University of Denver and University of Colorado Boulder!

Those are good. Other popular choices with the A/B maybe a C crowd are University of Oregon, Gonzaga, University of San Diego (private one not UCSD), Pitt, Arizona State.

If they are choosing a non impacted major then their local Cal state or ones other than SJSU, Cal Poly SLO or SDSU (unless they are choosing an easy major and live within the service area). Community college and scrambling for internships, gig code work, start ups for engineering kids that don’t have perfect GPAs.

Are you talking about kids who don’t have much rigor?

Yes. As long as they aren’t a white or Asian male applying to CS or engineering, those are all good targets. If you are OOS and have a 3.5 then you are very competitive for UCSC, Cal Poly etc. If you are in state, you get a bump if you apply to a school in your service area. Cal Poly, SJSU and SDSU will have B students from its service area and 4.0 students from Nor Cal.

Thanks I have a 3.5 kid in So Cal with not much rigor, so was curious.
Appreciate the response.

CA state Long Beach and CA state Fullerton are good options. It’s really going to depend on her desired major. Try to see if there is a less impacted major in the school with her desired major and what the process is for switching. Some schools make it harder. For example Cal Poly SLO and Cal Poly Pomona make it difficult to change schools within the university. It’s way easier to be accepted in agriculture business or hospitality than engineering. Going north Cal State Monterey is good for environmental science. Cal Poly Humboldt is another option.

Santa Clara University as long as you apply ED, choose a less competitive major, and show demonstrated interest is another possible one.

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Anonymous wrote:The college search process is much nicer for the so-called average kids. They’re not hung up on a small handful of schools and there’s a broader or wider sense of good options for them.

And there are a lot of genuinely great schools they go to with good outcomes.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents of such children are most likely devoid of the skills necessary to access and comment on DCUM.

Is there really a student that gets more than 1 or 2 Bs in high school, outside of private schools? Serious question, since more than half the students in my kid’s high school graduation class had GPAs of over 4.0

Are you a troll or just naive? The "other half" populates the schools you wouldn't think of applying or joins the military or goes straight to FT work.

Either a troll or someone who’s not well read. Colleges are filled with students who got mostly Bs, some As, some Cs with an SAT score in the middle of the pack at around 1200. Most graduate and have success in their lives.

This is America. We are a capitalist society and we have top prestigious colleges, we have state schools that are subsidized by the government, we have community colleges where you come out with a license or certificate with a large variety of well paid jobs.

And the private universities see needs and fills them. There are universities that cater to the top students with perfect SATs, all APs, great skills. There are even more colleges that cater to the average good student. Students with grades of Bs, As, Cs. SATs that average 1250.

Some kids hate school, gets poor grades and never wants to step foot in a classroom again. But most kids who love learning but are slower learners and don’t want a fast pace will find one tailored to the.

And your child’s school should be the poster school for inflated grades.

The AVERAGE SAT score is 1030.
A score of 1250 is 81st percentile!

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Anonymous wrote:We have a couple of average kids. Older one just started college this week. Got in everywhere he applied. Got money from most. He even got into a couple of schools that others with much higher grades didn't from his school didn't. But he had a good essay, and he toured his schools that were harder admits. He was also reasonable about where he applied and was strategic about his choice major at some schools.

Kid two is a now a senior. His path is a little trickier because he isn't sure about a major.

Would you be willing to share the names of the schools where he got in? And highlight the ones where he got merit? Would be so helpful for the rest of us.

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Anonymous wrote:My average '25er (gpa 3.5, several Cs, no APs or test scores) fell in love with a school with 70% acceptance rate that had the exact right academic program. Applied ED and was accepted with generous merit.

Same question as above. Would you be willing to share the name of the school? Would be so helpful for the rest of us.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m here. One kid was a super achiever and went to a reachy reach school, other kid had a solid HS experience with lots of time for fun and sports etc and leaves for his first year at UVM tomorrow. The family joke is the super academic kid is probably going to be coming to the kid with more conventional path for a loan some day. In any case both kids have given me all the range of parent feels - pride, worry, frustration, excitement etc

Same for my kids. My first, a senior, is a super achiever because she is super motivated. My second is the average kid who is averagely motivated! But does fine in school and has a great group of friends. And yes both kids give me the range of parent emotions. Some threads on here are useful for my super achiever and some are useful for my average kid. I save threads from here on a google spreadsheet and some will be useful when my second is ready to apply.

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Anonymous wrote:The college search process is much nicer for the so-called average kids. They’re not hung up on a small handful of schools and there’s a broader or wider sense of good options for them.

And there are a lot of genuinely great schools they go to with good outcomes.

And another plus is the ease of applying to schools that they know they will get in. . There enough schools to go around and the student doesn’t feel the pressure of everyone thinking they’re going to Harvard because they have been labeled gifted their whole lives.

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