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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I keep hearing about super high SAT scores. When I was in school in the late 90s a food score was over 1200 and anything over 1400 was very high. Now it seems like 1200 is typical. I had a 3.2 unweighted GPA (40th percentile of class), no APs, and a 1240 SAT score and I got easily into every school I applied and offered merit scholarships at some of them. I only applied where I thought I’d get in. The programs were equal to VA Tech, where I was accepted for Mechanical Engineering but went to another school.

My daughter is a sophomore and has a 4.7 weighted GPA (4.0 unweighted), no APs, hasn’t taken the SAT yet. I feel like she’s far better positioned than I was, but realize it’s harder right now to get into many programs. What score would she need to get into [b]UMCP or VA Tech for engineering?[/quote][/b]

She's not getting into either of those schools for engineering with no APs.[/quote]

She’s a sophomore. With a 4.7 weighted, surely she’s on track for APs. [/quote]

Can you list every class taken that’s on the transcript and how it was weighted? I am trying to figure out how a sophomore has a 4.7 with no AP classes. Is it a school that generously weights honors classes?[/quote]
I honestly don’t know, but I’m not going to list her classes here. She and her friends were trying to figure it out and realized it’s because she takes all honors, including all of her electives. Most kids apparently take electives that are listed as standard. She is in public school. So whatever they do is what public schools are doing to weight them. [/quote]

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