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[quote=Anonymous]NP here with a senior who has been accepted to her college, so I can take a deep breath.

OP, you don't have enough data yet.  Wait for Naviance.

The other thing is, some high schools are feeders for some colleges, and the opposite is true, too.  Your kid's school will have some historical info on how their past students with similar GPAs do with certain colleges.

For example, my kid was interested in both a top 10 school, and a similarly-sized school ranked maybe mid-20s or so.  (No hooks at either.) Turned out that historically, the top 10 school loves kids from her HS, while the mid-20s school is a crapshoot.  Obviously, without the research, we would have assumed the mid-20s school would be the easier school to get into.

Oh, and btw, UVA was originally on her list, and we are OOS.  From her school, no one gets in UVA except maybe an athletic recruit.  Again, just going by rankings, one would think it would be easier to get into UVA than to a school in the top 10.

So, now that I've belabored that point, there is another point, which is legacy.  If your kid is interested in a school that cares about legacy, (where the kid does not have legacy), you have to check in with your high school to see if there are a lot of legacy applications, because if historically that school accepts about 5 kids per year, and there are 10 legacy applications, those are not good odds for your kid.[/quote]

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