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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The average from our hs for Pitt is 4.03 weighted so OP's son at weighted 3.7 may make that a reach if from similar hs.  The average SAT was 1290 so that's on target.  The other issue is that if unweighted is 3.5 but weighted is only 3.7 that may imply that he didn't take a rigorous courseload which will make more of these colleges out of reach.

JMU from our hs is weighted 3.97 and 1225 so that's a little more in line.[/quote]
I have a junior at an FCPS HS, and I have discovered that Naviance is worthless. My dd has friends with weighted 4.0s that have taken a ridiculously easy courseload, and friends with 3.7 weighted who are doing the full IB diploma. Ethnicity and first gen status are also hugely weighted right now.From what I’ve heard on results this year, some colleges prefer a more rigorous courseload when combined with a high test score over just a higher GPA.[/quote]

I'm curious how Naviance is worthless-it shows the actual GPA/SAT scores for admitted students over the past ten years from your hs and you can see year by year data.  To be sure, a competitive school requires an advanced courseload so you should assume that the GPAs of admitted students reflect performance in advanced coursework.  If there are a body of students who are accepted with slightly lower scores, you should assume they have some hook (URM, legacy, recruited athlete or other talent).  But this has been the case for a decade--so the scores reflect that.  My only thought with the Naviance data is that competitive schools have been getting increasingly competitive so the average scores needed may be slightly higher than those reflected.[/quote]

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