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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I feel like the 34 ACT should be weighted more if the 3.1 is from NCS. After All, isn't a 34/36 PROOF that the kid is well educated and Mastered  Most of the material she was required to learn in HS.

OK&lt; maybe her writing wasn't as stellar as her classmates over the past 30 years ( average NCS teacher has been reading the papers of Rhodes Scholars to be... for decades

Perhaps go to Tulane for a year - Rock it with Straight A's ( easy enough after being shot out of the NCS pressure chamber) and then transfer as a Soph/ Junior to the University your girl is actually a match for[/quote]

I wouldn’t go for it. I want hires or students that apply themselves most of the time. The consistency. This is what gpa and transcript communicates. Fluffing off on courses every semester and then only hyper focusing on an ACT test is not what I want. That screams attitude problem or focus problem or work ethic problem. Or you’re topped out. [/quote]

Are you hiring kids out of high school? How many of your employees' high school GPAs do you know and why do you care what they were liked as teenagers with undeveloped brains? I can think of numerous highly successful people who were terrible in high school.[/quote]

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