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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]My DS has a 3.6 and 28 ACT and his GC suggested GMU as a match. He was accepted, as was everyone else he knows with those stats. You do NOT need a 30 from NOVA to get in[/b].[/quote][/quote]

But your counselor has access to Naviance.  The first thing your counselor should be doing is comparing your student against the other students in his class.  Naviance is the most powerful tool at your disposal because your high school is unique - GMU will receive from your high school a student profile every year.  From that profile, GMU can see the number of AP courses offered by your high school, the highest GPA, the median, - etc etc etc.  Also you didn't say if you are public or private, which makes a difference.  Also you didn't say if the counselor could check of the "Most Rigorous" or "Very Rigorous" boxes.  And you didn't mention ECs or quality of letters of recommendation. So it indeed may be true from your school that a 3.6 will do it.  You didn't even say if that's weighted or not.

But for the AVERAGE student, i.e., not one from your particularly high school - the 75th percentile for GMU remains a 3.9 for students who actually showed up last fall and a 30 ACT.
Your high school counselor should have shown you the SCHEV stats. because your son is slightly above the median for ACT and slightly below it for ACT.  If not, they are not doing their job.

Remember SCHEV reports the stats of the students who actually showed up.  Many with higher GPAs and scores use it as a safety and went elsewhere. https://research.schev.edu//enrollment/B10_FreshmenProfile.asp[/quote]

Oh my god this poster is maddening.  [b]TWO-THIRDS of GMU undergraduate students are from NOVA[/b].  This, too, is on SCHEV.  It is mathematically impossible for their average test scores to be in the 75 percentile of the entering class unless the entire rest of the class from anywhere outside of NOVA is in the 10th percentile!  He uses the SCHEV numbers when they suit him, and he ignores them when they don’t.  [/quote]

That's not true, but even assuming it is, why would that be?  OH THE TRANSFER STUDENTS!  One of the missions of the public university system.  GMU takes 2,733 transfer from NVCC alone and 2,971 from Virginia.  And they need only a 3.0 plus the requisite courses completed to get in.
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