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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Son taking about 12 APs by end of senior year. Has taken or is taking the ones that are deemed most difficult by his counselor, including : AP Chem, AP physics c, AP Calc bc, AP comp gov, AP us history, both AP English options, etc, doubled up on sciences and math courses for 11th and 12th, took no typical electives except the 1 art and 1 PE required for graduation.
He has been a peer tutor in science, is a president of an academic club at school, and has other ECs that are positive and give a strong sense of his personality and drive. His weighted GPA is high above 4.0, but unweighted is Projected to be 3.65
He has a 34 ACT.

***Question:
Given the rigor of his courses can not be doubted (this is the wording of his counselor) will this give more forgiveness for his “lower” unweighted GPA.

***If he takes the ACT again to try to get higher than a 34 do you think that would help in a significant way?

Not trying for Ivy type schools, more like the Maine schools, Carleton, Haverford, Wesleyan?, Brown (as a high reach), and then Pitt as a likely? 
Interested in humanities and sciences.
Need more to add as targets and likely.

Full pay male applicant.

Please be kind. And don’t say that everyone takes these classes because they don’t at his school (according to a counselor at his school )which is a close-in MD well regarded public.

***If you child had very high rigor illustrated by their transcript but a unweighted gpa that was  3.6/ 3.7 do you think that the intensity and difficulty of coursework was taken into account when they applied to selective LAC? [/quote]

Only if your FC is not Asian.[/quote]

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