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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I need to know where the bottom unhooked kids are going, not the top.  :-([/quote]

Elon, smu, tcu, sewanee, muhlenburgh, American, trinity, Syracuse.   Not bad schools at all!  These are full pay.  Kids who need aide or instate are doing JMU, UMBC, CNU, or small liberal arts colleges like Juanita, Wooster etc.  [/quote]

Interesting. I guess my 11th grader must be at the bottom of the class at their Big3 because the college counselor recently recommended almost every school on this list: Elon, SMU, TCU, Syracuse, Sewanee, Muhlenburg, Trinity. Unfortunately, my DC isn’t really thrilled about any of these schools. Really wishing we sent DC to public. 34 ACT and 3.1 GPA. [/quote]

I think if your child does an ED to Tulane or Wake Forest or Colby or Bates they would have a good shot with that GPA and ACT score.  We know Big 3 kids with similar stats that have gotten in ED to those schools.  [/quote]Bate’s with a 3.1 seems like a stretch.[/quote]

Any of those with a 3.1 is a stretch… ACT is excellent - kudos to her.   A 3.1 GPA is a straight B, not even close to a B+.   This means there are those three Cs from freshman year and probably some B- in other years which honestly isn’t great.  It’s better than dropping but a 3.1 isn’t in the highly selective college range and Tulane, bates and wake are all highly selective.   If you are full pay use your ED wisely.  With that great ACT she would have a real shot at good colleges but highly selective won’t take 3.1 regardless.  Depending on what your DD wants I would say ED for GW, Fordham, Syracuse, bucknell, conn coll, college of Charleston, Rhodes etc.   3.1 is bottom 25% at big 3…or at least at STA/NCS.   It’s a bell curve and 50th percentile kids are in the B+ Range generally.  Also since big 3 schools don’t weight you also need to realistically say is the 3.1 from honors math or regular track etc and really evaluate her work load compared to peer applicants.  That’s why you need to be really smart about ED.  She’ll be more competitive there since all the kids who don’t get in ED to top 20 schools are then flooding those schools as their targets/safeties when they are likely your DD reach.   College admissions sucks!!!   Also maybe she can spin the 3 Cs from freshman year as covid related, but also, how on earth did she get three Cs with remote learning?  Most school graded so gently that year.  [/quote]

Yes, several B-s and Bs in 10th and all B+ and a few As in 11th. Not making excuses, but DD has inattentive ADHD which made remote learning a disaster. We are full pay. Thanks to everyone for the suggestions! [/quote]

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