Based on experience - has anyone had DC admitted to a top 20 school with a 3.5 - 3.6 GPA NO HOOKS?

[Anonymous]

What grade is your kid? If these are actual stats, you can look at Naviance for your school which will give you a better idea of what is possible. If your kid is only a freshman, you likely don’t have access to Naviance yet which is a good thing. I’m going through the admissions process now with 2 kids and there are excellent schools outside of the top 20. We know people applying to top 20 schools and really hope they are successful so it isn’t sour grapes. But most of those kids are also realistic about their chances despite excellent stats.

[Anonymous]

Top 20 no - top 50 possibly but think Tulane, Wash U, Boston U, Northeastern and none of those guaranteed. UVA and U Mich most likely a no unless you are phenomenally rich (boarding school or top 3 private). Hamilton, Emory also possibilities.

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Anonymous wrote:Is that GPA unweighted or weighted?

Unweighted GPA from a top public/private

You need to say whether it is public or private. Important.

Either your kid got in with theses stats or not. If your kid got in, answer the question. Otherwise stop the annoying garbage comments.

You are one of the rudest OPs I've seen in a while.
You're asking for free advice.
You're not motivating people to answer you, when you're ordering people around and demanding advice be given in the form you want, and ignoring other people's reasonable questions that would help them give better answers,

Not the OP. And the questions being asked are irrelevant. The question that was asked was if your kid got in with those stats... obviously yours did not so no need for your post or the other posts from those whose kids did not get in with those stats.

They are relevant if OP wants a remotely useful answer. A 3.6 can mean very different things from different schools, which would greatly impact admissions chances. A simple yes or no is devoid of any context to allow the answer to have value. In my HS, I would say no, but our formal GPAs were out of 6 (don't ask me why) so that 3.6 was a lot less impressive. That's an extreme example, but 3.6 could be top 10% at one school and much lower at another.

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Not Top 20, but my kid got into U. of Michigan and Carnegie Mellon with all the parameters you stated. Was accepted to class of 2023.

[Anonymous]

"Top 20 no - top 50 possibly but think Tulane, Wash U, Boston U, Northeastern and none of those guaranteed. UVA and U Mich most likely a no unless you are phenomenally rich (boarding school or top 3 private). Hamilton, Emory also possibilities."

Our DC was a 3.5UW and 1300 admit to a school ranked #60 in 2018.

Things really open up fast once you get to schools with 6000+ freshman admits like the UCs in the 30s.

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Anonymous wrote:Is that GPA unweighted or weighted?

Unweighted GPA from a top public/private

You need to say whether it is public or private. Important.

Either your kid got in with theses stats or not. If your kid got in, answer the question. Otherwise stop the annoying garbage comments.

You are one of the rudest OPs I've seen in a while.
You're asking for free advice.
You're not motivating people to answer you, when you're ordering people around and demanding advice be given in the form you want, and ignoring other people's reasonable questions that would help them give better answers,

Not the OP. And the questions being asked are irrelevant. The question that was asked was if your kid got in with those stats... obviously yours did not so no need for your post or the other posts from those whose kids did not get in with those stats.

Actually (same PP), mine did, but with different stats than that (higher GPA).
The reason people are asking public/private is that the GPA can be viewed differently depending on whether it's from a school with grade deflation (usually private). It's a relevant question from people trying to help you. And the relevance of my post was to point out that you're alienating people who might otherwise want to help.

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Anonymous wrote:"Top 20 no - top 50 possibly but think Tulane, Wash U, Boston U, Northeastern and none of those guaranteed. UVA and U Mich most likely a no unless you are phenomenally rich (boarding school or top 3 private). Hamilton, Emory also possibilities."

Our DC was a 3.5UW and 1300 admit to a school ranked #60 in 2018.

Things really open up fast once you get to schools with 6000+ freshman admits like the UCs in the 30s.

I said to assume 1500+ as test scores.

Please read. Dont need help thinking about Ohio State.

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"I said to assume 1500+ as test scores.

Please read. Dont need help thinking about Ohio State."

Can you explain why you want to repeat the mistake you made in choosing DC's HS?

You sent your 1500+ DC to a "top public/private" and so far they have refused to work up to their capacity.

The top-20 see you coming miles and miles away and aren't interested.

To create interest, the students who pull off what you are talking about with those stats have worked hard to develop school specific hooks.

Basically they have developed a relationship with someone on campus who will go to bat with admissions for them.

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Anonymous wrote:"Top 20 no - top 50 possibly but think Tulane, Wash U, Boston U, Northeastern and none of those guaranteed. UVA and U Mich most likely a no unless you are phenomenally rich (boarding school or top 3 private). Hamilton, Emory also possibilities."

Our DC was a 3.5UW and 1300 admit to a school ranked #60 in 2018.

Things really open up fast once you get to schools with 6000+ freshman admits like the UCs in the 30s.

I said to assume 1500+ as test scores.

Please read. Dont need help thinking about Ohio State.

WTF is wrong with you. Were you born nasty? What a jerk!

- np

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JMU is your goal with those stats OP.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone have any luck or is this a complete waste of time.

Please no hooks.
No First time to college.
No recruited athletes.
No alumni children.
No URM.

Normal good students.

Please assume top test scores. Think 1500+

Your kid won't have any luck, unless they have a personality different from yours, and that personality shows up in their essays, as well as in their recommendations.

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Anonymous wrote:"Top 20 no - top 50 possibly but think Tulane, Wash U, Boston U, Northeastern and none of those guaranteed. UVA and U Mich most likely a no unless you are phenomenally rich (boarding school or top 3 private). Hamilton, Emory also possibilities."

Our DC was a 3.5UW and 1300 admit to a school ranked #60 in 2018.

Things really open up fast once you get to schools with 6000+ freshman admits like the UCs in the 30s.

I said to assume 1500+ as test scores.

Please read. Dont need help thinking about Ohio State.

WTF is wrong with you. Were you born nasty? What a jerk!

- np

I wish we could launch a campaign for OP's kid to get into Stanford and get as far away as possible from his or her parent.

[Anonymous]

OP, you are clearly grasping at straws. Obviously your kid isn't in a highly competitive private school or TJ-like public where the GPA scale might look a little different, nor is this a case where your kid aced a bunch of really really hard classes but had Cs in PE and band or something.

The answer to your question is no, your kid is not going to get into a Top 20 so turn your energy to more productive enterprises and stop being a jackass to people in this thread just because they aren't giving you the answer you want to hear.

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Anonymous wrote:"Top 20 no - top 50 possibly but think Tulane, Wash U, Boston U, Northeastern and none of those guaranteed. UVA and U Mich most likely a no unless you are phenomenally rich (boarding school or top 3 private). Hamilton, Emory also possibilities."

Our DC was a 3.5UW and 1300 admit to a school ranked #60 in 2018.

Things really open up fast once you get to schools with 6000+ freshman admits like the UCs in the 30s.

I said to assume 1500+ as test scores.

Please read. Dont need help thinking about Ohio State.

WTF is wrong with you. Were you born nasty? What a jerk!

- np

I wish we could launch a campaign for OP's kid to get into Stanford and get as far away as possible from his or her parent.

University of Alaska Anchorage!

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Anonymous wrote:"Top 20 no - top 50 possibly but think Tulane, Wash U, Boston U, Northeastern and none of those guaranteed. UVA and U Mich most likely a no unless you are phenomenally rich (boarding school or top 3 private). Hamilton, Emory also possibilities."

Our DC was a 3.5UW and 1300 admit to a school ranked #60 in 2018.

Things really open up fast once you get to schools with 6000+ freshman admits like the UCs in the 30s.

I said to assume 1500+ as test scores.

Please read. Dont need help thinking about Ohio State.

WTF is wrong with you. Were you born nasty? What a jerk!

- np

I wish we could launch a campaign for OP's kid to get into Stanford and get as far away as possible from his or her parent.

OP's kid has no chance at Stanford. Maybe ASU. For the child's sake I hope he didn't inherit the parent's assholishness.