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[quote=Anonymous][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]

This is why I find GPA comparisons ridiculous. I don't know why colleges bother--I no longer bother looking at the data. Even MoCo, FFX County, and Arlington Co all weigh classes differently. For it to be somewhat useful, they should all only use UW GPAs and, even then you still need a lot more data to understand like average number of APs etc... which of course doesn't help with schools that don't offer APs.[/quote]

Maybe but OP said that GPA is bottom half at the school. That translates universally. A bottom half GPA at a school is not likely to get into a t20, regardless of SAT[/quote]

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