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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What kind of colleges should a student who has a gpa of 3.4 from a private school with 1550 SAT but strong math EC (multiple prestigious math camps and published research paper) and advanced math classes have a good shot at. She does not want to apply to LAC. [/quote]

Rigorous HS curriculum? Full pay?

Pretty much anywhere except the most highly selective schools.

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Yes, its a rigorous private and full pay. But she has a couple of Cs in language. [/quote]

It just really depends what she wants and is looking for -- and also, it depends on your private and its track record

I might start with schools like USC,  BU, NYU (has the new Courant school!), Wake, UVA, Tufts
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Are you DC local. OP? At the Big3, a 3.4-3.5 will not get you into UVA. They want sky high GPAs even from the Cathedral schools & Sidwell. [b]The others could work if you did ED. [/quote]

This. UVA’s 75th percentile has a 4.5; median is a 4.4; even bottom 25th percentile has a 4.2.[/quote]

Those are weighted GPA’s.  You can’t compare them to unweighted private school GPA’s.

My kids go to a private that doesn’t weight.  The highest possible GPA is 4.0, and yet unhooked kids go to UVA every year.

I am not saying OP’s will get in, just that this comparison is irrelevant.[/quote]

Right. But those of us with kids at a Big3 are telling OP you need a high GPA for UVA—like 3.8 at NCS/STA or Sidwell. It used to be 3.6-3.7 for UVA from the Big3 if you were a legacy/URM, but those days are over. [/quote]

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