Reply to Where did your high stats/ max rigor but OK ECs student end up?

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Where did your high stats/ max rigor but OK ECs student end up?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. His school still follows the AP curriculum but also offers post AP classes. He would have taken 12 APs and 2 post APs in math by the time he graduates. School calculates GPA on a scale of 100, but he has the equivalent of a 4.0 unweighted ( mostly A+s in all classes ). Intended major would be along the lines of economics/ finance / accounting . [/quote]

This may be the issue: school is not a top private. Top privates don’t give out As easily let alone have 15% of the class getting A+. We have friends in lower tier private with similar profile. Thought bc they were top of class they could aim of r schools like Brown and Dartmouth ED; all  rejected and ended up at schools like Wesleyan and Middlebury during RD. [/quote]

*aim for

Also want to add from my one person’s observation in our city (outside DMV), T15 schools are taking kids from top privates and brilliant kids from public schools who are low income. [b]The in-between mid-tier private and UMC kids don’t get in.[/b] [/quote]

This. But I think if her kid is in the top 5%, there’s a good chance. OP: How did you come up with the top 15%, considering your kid got mostly A+’s? I think the best prediction is to look at their school’s Scoir. Also, you can see what schools kids with similar profiles from their school ended up this year. That’s a good benchmark and you can go from there.[/quote]

OP here . [b]His school doesn’t rank.[/b] Top 15% it’s just my conservative estimate based on how many kids end up on the honor roll every semester. His rank is probably higher, but I have no way of exactly quantifying that. We do have access to Scoir. The problem with Scoir though is that it only shows you GPA and SAT/ACT stats. You have no idea what ECs these kids did , or if they were a recruited athlete, or legacy. Just based on stats alone, he should be able to get into an Ivy . It’s the ECs that are the issue here based on what the counselor told us. [/quote]

The college counselor will informally rank the kids (e.g., top 5% or top 10%) in the letter, or AOs can deduce from a combination of their GPA and course rigor. You need to be in the top 5% in your high school to get into a top 20 in your case it seems.[/quote]
My son’s private also doesn’t rank, but their school counselor took the initiative to give him an estimate during the application period. You can ask your kid’s school counselor informally after the final grades are out.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics