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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree with PP that the high school matters a lot when considering GPA especially for private colleges.  The kids from NCS who are going to Tulane are definitely B students.  I suspect they all have 30 plus ACT scores.  My daughter who is above a B student had Tulane as a safety.  STA kid who we know well who had a 3.5 and high test scores is choosing between UC Berkley and GA Tech.  NCS kid with about a 3.7 and a C senior year choosing between Wash U and Carnegie-Mellon engineering.  [/quote]

Exactly. The "you need a 3.6 and a 30 ACT" is a giveaway that the poster is only thinking in terms of a non-selective public HS. At my school, the average SAT score last year was 1430 and average ACT was 33. (I do think the ACT score is slightly inflated relative to the SAT because people really only take it if they think they'll do better on it than they did/would on the SAT, so it's a somewhat self-selecting cohort.) People with 3.0s routinely have 30s on the ACTs. [/quote]

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