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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]STA?

Trinity College, Carleton, Colby, Colgate, UMich, Boston College, Boston U, Harverford, Tufts, Tulane, maybe Bowdoin

Reaches:  Wesleyan, Middlebury, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, maybe Cornell and maybe UMD [/quote]

B students (even from STA) don't get into Haverford, Tufts or Bowdoin unless he scores 2100+ on the SATs.

Forget Cornell even with 2100+ SATs, he will never get in with those grades.

With a B avg, it'll depend a lot on what he scores on the SATs.[/quote]

A critical point here is:  where is the B average from?   What school?  Why?  Simply put a "B" at some schools without grade inflation is not the same "B" as it is from a school WITH grade inflation.  The top New England baoding schools...as an example.....just do NOT give out "A"s..  So, a student there with a B average will not be assessed in the same manner as someone from a local school where there is significant grade inflation.  In other words, "A"a are given out like candy.  YES, the other points noted on this thread will matter as well.  No question about it.  [/quote]

Even "B" students from Andover and similar will not get into an Ivy, Stanford, etc. even with top SATs all in the 700s for all three parts.  So you can talk about how some schools have grade inflation or not but for the very top universities, a student will not get in with a "b" avg without a compelling hook like for example an underrepresented minority with perfect SATs.[/quote]

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