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[quote=Anonymous]He really won't have trouble getting into a top 50 school, particularly if he has some extracurricular interests and achievements as well. It helps to be a boy, it helps to be on an upward trajectory, freshman year especially can be ignored, many high schools start at 10th in other parts of the country. My DD had a somewhat mediocre freshman year, a better sophmore but not perfect and excellent junior and senior years in terms of grades and she got into a top Ivy. And there are far far more academically challenging schools than there were 30 years ago. And the colleges understand that grading at Sidwell, NCS, St Alban's, Maret and GDS is not easy, and that kids very very rarely have perfect records.  Kids like this at my DD's big 3 seemed to get into places like University of Michigan or Wisconsin at worst, or LACs like Claremont-McKenna, Bates or Colby, Rice, Emory, McCallister, Tulane, even U Chicago.  Those SATs will help quite a bit, and if he can get his grades up this semester and in the fall semester (while he should apply early action somewhere that is a reach, he could get deferred to look at his senior fall grades). Anyway, really don't despair![/quote]

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