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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lehigh alumna here. Also thought of Lehigh, Bucknell, Tulane, Wake and Lafayette. He will need to visit and show a lot of interest for Lehigh and Wake or  they may decline because his stats are so high. What about UVA and UNC-CH? [/quote]

His stats aren’t high for Wake, particularly coming from a public school.  Right around median.[/quote]

DP: Not according to their data set.  Only 26% submit SAT scores (22% submit ACT, the rest go test optional)  and the median score is 1450.  OP's kid has 1530, which is well above the 75%ile.  Only 67% of students are in the top 10% of their class.[/quote]

Ok, so approximately 70 percent of kids are in the top 10 percent of the class according to your data.Name a local public school where a 3.8 is in the top 10 percent?  At our private known for rigor, it takes a 3.7 minimum for Wake.

Wake doesn’t care much about test scores, they were test optional long before Covid.  They care much more about gpa and leadership.  Lots of kids who were all school or class presidents. [/quote]

OP’s kid has a 3.98.

I agree 3.8 would be different.[/quote]

OP has a 3.98 *unweighted* which is likely top 1%  at any school. With number of APs this would be a weighted 4.5.  Their scores and GPA are high for Wake, but I don't think so high they would be yield protected. A lot of public schools only report weighted (because there is more variability in course rigor at a public and someone could take very easy gen-ed courses and get As in them and have achieved far less than someone who took APs and got Bs).[/quote]

That is simply untrue, it is not uncommon to see 10 to20 percent of kids with a unweighted 4.0 at some local public schools.[/quote]

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