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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Having such a high SAT score with a relatively low GPA makes him look low effort. [/quote]

Agree this was the issue.

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My kid had a GPA/score mismatch (only 3.3uw, 34 ACT) and didn’t apply to CRWU specifically because of his GPA, even though I think it would have been a good fit. Our SCOIR indicated he’d never get in with his GPA, which CWRU seemed to be focused on even more than some other schools.

It can be tough to figure out targets bc these kids (always boys, btw) are sitting in that upper left quadrant as an outlier in SCOIR/Naviance. My DS had better luck with smaller schools which maybe looked more holistically at his app.[/quote]

Another thought is he could take a gap year and reapply next year to a more balanced list. I concur with smaller schools that look more holistically. I too have a kid - also a boy - with much higher test scores than GPA. It was very hard to put together a list and know where he might fall because those dots in Naviance usually have aligned GPAs and test scores, but he did not. His test score was as high as you can get. His GPA was not.

He did very well in the end getting into a reach LAC. [/quote]

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