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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Babson may be an option if you are full pay.[/quote]

Babson is a reach with a 28 with a GPA that low.  Unless the GPA was earned in a very intensive high school program.

I'd look at also-ran state schools in MD if you refuse to consider community college [b](which to me makes no sense)[/b].  Sure, you're full pay, but even full pay doesn't mean throw money away.  Your student needs to prove herself first.[/quote]

A 28 ACT is like 90th percentile!! I’ve know a bunch of kids to graduate college with a <25 ACT score. This is a bizarre post. [/quote]

What's bizarre is your failure to consider the score in context.  Yes, a 28 is a fine score, but at Babson College a 28 puts you in the 25th percentile among admitted students.  The mean score is a 30.  So you're talking about a kid applying to a school with below average grades and test scores.  That makes it a reach by definition.  [/quote]

You are suggesting that OP’s kid will fail out of a 4 year school and will “throw money away.”[/quote]

Not at all.  I'm merely suggesting that when a kid has a pretty high ACT or SAT score and doesn't have the grades to back it up I'd think twice about starting out at a full pay private school.  If it were the reverse I'd consider it though.  [/quote]

3.36 weighted GPA during a pandemic (unless the school was throwing out B's for D-level work--I know that wasn't the case at my kids FCPS hs as several kids she knows got C's and D's)  and a 90th percentile ACT (which is more indicative of content area knowledge/skills) has a good chance of succeeding at a supportive college.[/quote]

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