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The one caveat is the gpa. Freshman year was very bad, sophomore not so great, but huge upward trend. Would a 4.3-4.4 weighted gpa be competitive for T20s? How will colleges view a humanities student from TJ, and will they forgive low grades in STEM classes?[/quote]

I’m curious - why did they attend a STEM magnet high school where they got low grades in STEM classes if they want to be a humanities student and attend a T20 school?

In terms of GPA and what colleges it is hard to say if there are any places your kid’s GPA is more competitive than at first glance because we don’t know the specifics of the grades. For example, the UCs don’t include freshman year and have the A-G area recalculation of GPA. By that formula and looking at the UC data and OOS admissions at the high school level, I knew it was beyond a reach for my kid.  But at another college that recalculates GPA by dropping the plus and minus and didn’t rely on weighted GPA as much to quantify rigor, they did really well as someone who had A-grades and not all As and A plus but only one B+.  Their private school limited access to AP amd capped the number of honor/APs.

In my opinion, the better road is focus outside of the T20 and either try to transfer after the first year or as other people mentioned, try for the big names for grad school.  The T20 undergraduate college admission doesn’t have a lot of grace for late bloomers academically and is no cake walk for kids that had As in rigorous classes out of the gate.[/quote]

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