Help DC Identify Realistic Target and Safety Schools

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Anonymous wrote:Are there any schools with high level sports and 5k-8k undergrads?

SMU

SMU is the closest fit for what OP described. Leafy campus in a very nice residential enclave in the middle of Dallas, ACC sports, @ 7,000 undergrads, 50% acceptance rate.

The neighborhood around it is such a luxurious place. I'd never want to move to Texas, but the homes made me envious. Dallas is also a great place for jobs.

SMU is very much a hot school right now. Reasonably good, beautiful campus, great sports, nice vibe.

Agree. It’s also benefitting from the fact that, if a student wants to go to college in a city and doesn’t want to live in a “gritty” neighborhood, there are remarkably few options.

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Anonymous wrote:Lehigh alumna here. Also thought of Lehigh, Bucknell, Tulane, Wake and Lafayette. He will need to visit and show a lot of interest for Lehigh and Wake or they may decline because his stats are so high. What about UVA and UNC-CH?

His stats aren’t high for Wake, particularly coming from a public school. Right around median.

DP: Not according to their data set. Only 26% submit SAT scores (22% submit ACT, the rest go test optional) and the median score is 1450. OP's kid has 1530, which is well above the 75%ile. Only 67% of students are in the top 10% of their class.

Ok, so approximately 70 percent of kids are in the top 10 percent of the class according to your data.Name a local public school where a 3.8 is in the top 10 percent? At our private known for rigor, it takes a 3.7 minimum for Wake.

Wake doesn’t care much about test scores, they were test optional long before Covid. They care much more about gpa and leadership. Lots of kids who were all school or class presidents.

OP’s kid has a 3.98.

I agree 3.8 would be different.

OP has a 3.98 *unweighted* which is likely top 1% at any school. With number of APs this would be a weighted 4.5. Their scores and GPA are high for Wake, but I don't think so high they would be yield protected. A lot of public schools only report weighted (because there is more variability in course rigor at a public and someone could take very easy gen-ed courses and get As in them and have achieved far less than someone who took APs and got Bs).

That is simply untrue, it is not uncommon to see 10 to20 percent of kids with a unweighted 4.0 at some local public schools.

Evidence? People are always saying that everyone gets all As at my kid's high school, but it's nowhere near accurate when I look at the actual Naviance. My kid who is at a middle of the road FCPS school, has taken a rigorous courseload and has a weighted 4.25 with well below an UW 4.0--not sure what it is because FCPS doesn't report, but he's had a few Bs and one B- and is still within the top 10%.

Also, all the unweighted 4.0s don't matter for percentiles, because in public schools the percentiles are based on weighted grades so those with 4.0 who took less rigorous courseloads and won't have the same weighted grade and thus won't be in the top percentiles.

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4.0s for everyone is a myth.