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[quote=Anonymous]for a high performing kid like this, assuming he took the very highest rigor available in STEM and gets 5s on those APs, AND that weighted GPA puts him in the top 3-4 kids in his high school, aim high. 
We know schools where that GPA is the top and others where it is borderline for T10% rank. You need to find out. Look on Scoir for the high school and see how many GPAs are higher for every T20, cut the duplicate dots. and divide by years shown.

Target Engineering schools for our private all boys school as well as the STEM magnet public for a kid with max rigor, all 5s, 1570 and a GPA that puts them near the very top of the class are as follows:

Target (25-60% of true top kids admitted) WashU, Michigan, Rice, Vanderbilt if ED, Cornell if ED, Hopkins if ED and not BME, CMU.

Reach (less than 25%) all the other ivies with true Engineering (Penn, Princeton, Columbia), Stanford, MIT, Duke, Northwestern, Hopkins if RD,  Cornell if RD.

But this is only for very top rigor and very high rank. Most seem to have real research and some have Stem awards too. 
DS is at Penn as is one classmate from the same year. A lot of the local kids do robotics and similar ECs so we know many parents and students as well as details from sharing each other's high school Scoir data. [/quote]

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