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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are there T50 schools that are highly likely to accept a high stats FCPS kid? If your kid is high stats what safety schools did you apply to?[/quote]

If you’re talking about a kid with an unweighted GPA over 3.8, plenty of AP classes, weak activities and SATs of about 1450 or higher classes and you have plenty of money:

- Your state flagship, for arts and sciences.

- A respectable out-of-state state flagship that’s easy to get into, for arts and sciences. (Example: the University of Delaware.)

- A school equivalent to George Mason or a Cal State something of other if you’re in a state with ultra selective top-tier state schools.

- A mid-tier liberal arts school. (Examples: Denison; Juniata. But make sure schools like that don’t reject a lot of high-stats kids who seem to be using them as safeties.)

If you’re the parent of a kid like that and in the donut hole, and your budget is something like $10,000 to $20,000 per year:

- Add a couple of weak but solvent liberal arts colleges where your kid would be one of the best students and very likely get a lot of merit aid;

- Add a community college that has a good program for funneling good students into good state flagships or other good four-year colleges; and/or

- Consider adding a cheap English-language bachelor’s program in some place like Southern Europe, if you have an extremely brave, independent kid who’s desperate to go to a challenging, interesting program out of state and horrified by going to a weak liberal college or a community college.

If you’re fairly high-income but your budget is under, $10,000, community college or treating weak liberal arts colleges as if they were Harvard and begging them for merit aid might be the only options.

If you’re low-income, see if lower-tier public universities in your state have good merit aid for kids like your kid.

If you can afford to pay $20,000 to $30,000 per year, and your kid has good scores on three or more AP tests, maybe you can use English-language bachelor’s programs in France, Spain or the Netherlands for daredevil kids who are horrified by the idea of going to community college.

If other people now say there’s no guarantee the European bachelor’s will be worth much in the United States: This could be true. Your kid should think about that. But, on the other hand, if I were a National Merit Semifinalist with straight A’s and being told to go to community college, in a state where that’s not common, I’d rather run away to university in Bulgaria than go to community college with the illiterate stoners from my high school.

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