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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
An A minus average at a Big 3 is hardly a “mediocre GPA.” If the courseload is mostly advanced/AP-level classes like Physics C, Calculus, etc (however the most challenging classes are designated at that particular school) then UVA and W&M are most definitely within reach.

OP, it may also be deceiving in how you calculate top 25% at a school that does not weight or calculate rank. Is that based solely on GPA? The kid with a 3.8 who took all easy classes might be considered by some to be ranked in a higher percentile than the kid with a 3.65 in the most challenging classes, but colleges won’t see it that way.

So drop all that money on a private school to be “within reach” of two state colleges that would have been within reach or sure things from any random public high school in VA?[/quote]

PP here.  The point wasn't that UVA and W&M are the best DC could do, it was that the earlier poster who tried to say these were out of reach is completely nuts.  If a kid is taking the most challenging classes at a big 3 and has an A minus average, that is not "poor performance" or "mediocre" grades.  Anyone who says that and starts talking about schools like JMU has no idea what they are talking about.  This kid is totally within range at sold schools like Tufts, Middlebury, Bowdoin, Wesleyan, Carleton, Haverford, Boston College, Colby, etc.  Probably even good odds at Georgetown, Michigan, Emory, WUSTL, Rice.  If in Virginia, UVA and W&M would likely be safeties, IF the 3.65 is in challenging classes.[/quote]

Dream on. LOL[/quote]

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