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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]C'mon people.  These are SEC schools, not the Ivies, not the little Ivies, not even any in the US News top 50. UNC and Duke are in a whole different league than the SEC schools, though.

What matters is not so much the exact GPA number, but what your school profile looks like and where you fit into it. The colleges will know this.  I'd say OP's DC has a great shot at any SEC school, if that DC is from a strong public or private in this area.

Last year we had many of these same schools offering big, and I mean, big financial aid packages to the top students at DD's private.  They were the top students, though.  Maybe the top 10% or so.  A couple students took the bait and went, surprising many because they had been looking mostly at top 25 schools.  Everyone has a price, though.[/quote]

Keep telling yourself that -  [i]For the Fall of 2011, admitted freshman applicants had an average grade-point average (GPA) of 4.3, a 1963 SAT score, and a 30 ACT score.[/i]  I'm not sure what is is now.  But when my daughter applied, you were not safe even with a 4.0 or better.  My daughter's best friend was accepted to to Brown and turned down at Florida.  Hard to believe, but it happened the same year my daughter got in.

The SEC schools do not automatically consider your student somehow "better" just because they graduated from a strong school in the D.C. area.  I have a child that graduated from a very well respected Fairfax County High School.  None of the admissions offices seemed to even give that consideration.  I was hoping they would.  But they didn't.  They looked at GPA, test scores, essays, and extra-curricular.   Believe it or not, there are fantastic schools outside of the "D.C. area".  T.J. is the only D.C. area school that even breaks the top 10 best public schools.

I should add that I am not a fan of UF.  I think Gainsville is a filthy, dangerous town.  Plus, I've been conditioned to hate the Gators since birth.  But to suggest that UF is not very, very difficult to get into is ridiculous.  There is a reason it is one of the Public Ivys.[/quote]

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