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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pretty much, but the actual cut-off varies every year. The mininum requirements are listed. If a kid is right at that threshold, it might be tricky.

However, if your child is way above the requirements, then you can consider it a safety! This is really comforting for kids, considering the comparative unknowns and subsequent stress of US college admissions, where you never quite know what magic formula of extra-curriculars will push you over the edge. My son was in that situation. He was accepted, but ultimately decided it would be too cold for him in the winter (he's cold-sensitive), so he went somewhere warmer. My younger kids are considering McGill, however - they love the cold!

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My kid got in with 1520, 4.7 (weighted) from DCPS; he probably could have gotten in with slightly less on SAT/GPA from what I read.  It's kind of off the radar of most US-based students.

No essays, and pretty quick application.  [/quote]This may answer my concern - the website for the metrics are for unweighted GPA - [b]my kid has 4.65 weighted but falls below the 3.8 unweighted GPA[/b] that they state is the cutoff (and ACT score is far above the cutoff).  Did your child's unweighted GPA meet the cut off?[/quote]How is that mathematically possible?[/quote]
DP it is possible in almost every school in our area of Virginia because AP and DE get 5.0 for A and 5.3 or 5.5 for A+, depending on HS, and honors gets 4.5 for A and 4.8 or 5.0 for A+, many teachers give A+ to about 20% of the class (99-100 average), some classes that are harder have about half get B’s other classes only about 1/3 get B-something. It’s all over the place but the majority inflated. The median weighted is 4.25, some of them took easier classes and have 4.0 uw, others have 3.6 uw or lower. Add in no one telling rank until senior year when they tell you decile and it is really hard to figure out what schools to target[/quote]

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