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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At our private, without Calculus it would be:

Tulane (ED)
Wake (ED) - non stem or business major 
SMU - non business 
U-Miami (ED)
Santa Clara 
Lehigh (ED)[/quote]

This is a good list. I’d add Bucknell and Syracuse, maybe ED at both. And Clemson. [/quote]

My kid from a non-elite private, close the the middle of the class, no calc (precalc).  No APs (school does not offer them), a few honors classes (you have to test into honors at the school) was waitlisted at Clemson.[/quote]

+1 Our kid from non-elite HS w 3.9 uw, APs, strong ECs and 1430 SAT waitlisted from Clemson but got into top 10 business school so that’s where they are headed. One advice I would give is to remove “safety” schools from the vocabulary and replace with “likely”. A lot of the safeties from years ago are tough to get in nowadays. The common app is the worst thing to happen to kids since colleges receive way too many applications making them more competitive and driving admissions rates down to ridiculous levels. Also at most test optional schools, unless your kids SAT/ACT is in the median range (higher for business/Cs/engineering) most don’t submit which pushes the reported SAT’s even higher. It’s ridiculous that UMD’s median is 1450 and just a few years ago was in the 1300’s. Our DS rejected from UMD.  I would look at Naviance and see what your schools scatterplot reveals for your students stats-ours was spot on for most schools. [/quote]

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