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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love the person who say schools 50-150.  Are you nuts?  Schools around 50 are not even remotely a chance.[/quote

Just to back up this comment with facts:

US News #51, National Liberal Arts Colleges
Bard College, 1330-1420 25th - 75th%ile SAT, 64% top 10% of high school graduating class

US News #50, National Universities
Tulane University, 1230-1400 25th - 75th%ile SAT, 60% top 10% of high school graduating class[/quote]

"Clueless" poster here.  Since my curiousity with piqued I looked up a couple of the schools I suggested.  Beloit, which is #60, has a 70.5% acceptance rate.  Wheaton, which is #62, has a 61.5% acceptance rate.  Those are pretty good odds.  Many schools in that group are test optional so SAT scores become less relevant.  My DC happened to have very good ACTs (less good SATS, but still in the zone cited by Tulane) so we submitted them but I think all but one or two of the schools DC applied to were test optional.  The admission rates for the schools DC was admitted to in the top 50 LAC group ranged from 39-45%.

One factor we found helpful is that the LACs tend to focus more on the whole application than just the stats.  That can be helpful for some LD kids.  Mine, for example, is smart (well above average intelligence) but despite hard work the grades do not reflect that.  The OP mentioned that her DD had trouble with testing.  My DC was similar - would be doing okay in a class and then do much worse on the final, thus bringing down the grade.  If DC had applied to a big state school that does a first cut on GPA it would have been the end.  But luckily the LACs look at extracurrics (very strong), interviews (very strong), essays (all but one had fairly lengthy supplements to the common app), recommendations (which we expect were strong).  That's why we focused on LACs and why I suggested that to the OP, combined with her DDs interest in living in dorms, etc, which is less common at big universities after the first year.

To the person who posted the stats above, what colleges did you focus on for your kid?  What was your experience?

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