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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Based on ACT:
College of Wooster
Denison
Dickinson
Gettysburg
Lawrence
Muhlenberg
Oberlin
St. Mary's College of Maryland
St. Olaf

Her ACT would be on the higher side for:
Agnes Scott
Allegheny
Goucher
Juniata
Kalamazoo
Salisbury
University of the South (Sewanee)

GPA would be more typical and ACT would be very high for:
McDaniel
Hood
Susquehanna

I'd focus on choices in several tiers (e.g like those above) and really show them some love with demonstrated interest. And also put in some higher shots, because you never know!

What's her weighted GPA like?[/quote]

Thanks for the suggestions. She has a 3.5ish weighted this year - she's taking two APs, will be sitting for the tests at the end of year. She's a better test taker than everyday student so hopefully gets 4 or 5. [/quote]

She can do better than all of these schools, in case you didn't know. And by "better" I mean those "'A' schools for 'B' students" like Indiana, Rutgers, Delaware, Syracuse, Temple, South Carolina. These are large state schools - and I think most of those I mentioned give some money, except Rutgers. I know of kids with worse stats, including my own, who were accepted at those schools (except they did not apply to Syracuse or USC). 
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But should she?

I can't say why her GPA is low, but those core reasons aren't going to change much when she goes to college, and now she's going to have less home support. She's going to have to burn relative IQ points to keep up her grades, so to be successful she's likely better off going to an institution where she is significantly brighter than the average student, and this is particularly the case with a major like chemistry, which is both legit harder and more apt to draw stronger students.[/quote]

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