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[quote=Anonymous]I would focus more on the acceptance rate than the stats like average GPA, and also if you have Naviance or SCOIR, that would be really helpful to look at. Your school may have better success than what the overall numbers show. For example, our HS has over 70% acceptance rate at Penn State (vs. their published rate of 55%) and our students' stats are no better than the average. Presumably they like the OOS money and they know kids from our school are well prepared for college . . .

WVU has an acceptance rate of close to 90%, I'm sure your DD will get in there. I hate to say it but it's where kids go from our school that have trouble to getting in elsewhere (the average uwGPA of kids from our HS going there is 2.75, the average wGPA is 2.6 because the weighted only includes academic classes and these kids are not taking honors/AP).

UD is a bit of a reach but definitely apply. I'd also consider Indiana University, Michigan State, maybe Alabama, for sporty school in a town/small city. My DS has a slightly lower GPA and is also looking at Oregon, if she's willing to go that far--sports culture, Eugene is cool, 80+% acceptance rate but lower OOS. He's also looking at University of Utah, U Cincinnati (but may be too "big city for your DD"?), Miami of Ohio, UC Boulder, and UConn (UConn is in the middle of nowhere though). Ohio U as a safety. I don't know of these schools' strengths in her specific area of interest, so you'd have to look into that. Also some of these, including UD, are pricey out of state.[/quote]

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