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[quote=Anonymous][quote]DD has a 3.9 unweighted, but she's a junior and is floundering this year. She'll probably end up with a 3.2 at the end of the year at the rate she's going.[/quote]

That is some seriously fuzzy math.  There is no way her GPA will drop from a 3.9 to a 3.2 even if she gets all Bs. My DCs GPA after junior year was a 3.3 with mostly Bs, three Cs and some As.  If you are in a school/district that only reports a weighted GPA on the transcript, you'll find that a lot of public universities just take that and don't recalculate. So she'll have maybe a 4.0 weighted instead of a 4.4. She will be fine.

Did she prep for her PSAT? If not, then her score is probably not predictive of her SAT score, and she might take the ACT and get a 35. I wouldn't just take the GC's word for it and base your school search on an expected SAT result.

Some of the schools in Colleges That Change Lives would definitely give her a lot of merit aid and she would probably be a great candidate for some of the most competitive ones.  She could probably get into "better" SLACs though. There are a ton in PA - that might be a good place to start looking.[/quote]

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