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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son has a GPA at STA in this range with a 1560 SAT and wants to aim for elite colleges. From your experience, where can he realistically expect to be admitted? Does he have a shot at the Ivy League?[/quote]

You have to think of it this way....your kid, along with 150,000 others has a ticket to get into the stadium. Well qualified, good application, etc. Only 7,000 of those tickets get you on to the floor of the stadium for the prime viewing. There is almost nothing that distinguishes any of the 150,000 applicants from each other, almost pure luck. Sure, there are some hooks, some athletes etc, but for the most part, these are all talented, smart, well presenting kids.

So does he have a shot? Sure.
Should he count on it? No.

So the key is to figure out what the common traits are for the schools he might be interested in. So in other words, don't think of it as "does he have a shot at Ivy league" because the league has some smaller schools and some bigger schools, some urban schools and some rural schools, and more importantly, some schools have a very open curriculum and others have a strict distribution requirements. The idea and a kid would apply to all the Ivys is crazy, because they can be very different.

Find the common traits, figure out big school or small school, urban school or rural school, what part of the country is of interest, etc.  Once those questions are answered, you can narrow lists of hundreds of schools down to 20-30 and then research from there.[/quote]

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