Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NCS (lowest GPAs in the past 3 cycles).
Northwestern 3.91
Vanderbilt 3.9
Rice 4.0 (yes, 4.0--so not a single A minus).

Basically, if your kid is not in the top 5 girls in their class at NCS--these are probably off the table.

Other posters have said not a single girl can get all As at NCS as it really grade deflates. But you are saying some do. Cant follow the NCS posting crowd.

NP and not affiliated with NCS but it seems that only the top 5% of the class or the top 5 girls by GPA in the class are getting admitted, so by that token 95% of the class is not getting A’s.

My question to NCS parents is why has the school not changed course at this point with grading and how is it possible that kids from a school like NCS need a 3.91 to get into Vanderbuilt?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NCS (lowest GPAs in the past 3 cycles).
Northwestern 3.91
Vanderbilt 3.9
Rice 4.0 (yes, 4.0--so not a single A minus).

Basically, if your kid is not in the top 5 girls in their class at NCS--these are probably off the table.

Other posters have said not a single girl can get all As at NCS as it really grade deflates. But you are saying some do. Cant follow the NCS posting crowd.

The valedictorian alway has a 3.97-4.0. Some years it's a 3.97ish. Some years a girl manages to get a 4.0.
What the SCOIR data shows is that these girls (the 3.95+) are the only ones getting in unhooked to places like Rice, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Wash U. it's a few girls at the very top who get all these acceptances each year. Contrary to DCUM posters' belief or what the school wants parents in younger years to think--you're not getting into any of them with anything less than straight As with a few A minuses.

Anonymous wrote:NCS (lowest GPAs in the past 3 cycles).
Northwestern 3.91
Vanderbilt 3.9
Rice 4.0 (yes, 4.0--so not a single A minus).

Basically, if your kid is not in the top 5 girls in their class at NCS--these are probably off the table.

Other posters have said not a single girl can get all As at NCS as it really grade deflates. But you are saying some do. Cant follow the NCS posting crowd.

I wonder if people are going to start leaving schools the minute their kid doesn’t get an A if this continues?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:W school in MC close to DC.
Min sat 1440
Min act 32
Lowest unweighted gpa 3.6
7 out of 40 accepted last year.

What university?

That was for Emory but Wash U was actually about the same.

Anonymous wrote:W school in MC close to DC.
Min sat 1440
Min act 32
Lowest unweighted gpa 3.6
7 out of 40 accepted last year.

What university?

W school in MC close to DC.
Min sat 1440
Min act 32
Lowest unweighted gpa 3.6
7 out of 40 accepted last year.

Anonymous wrote:Is a 3.87 an A or A-, how does that translate to the IB scale?

A 3.87 is right between.
4.0 is an A, 3.7 is an A-
I don't know about the IB scale

Is a 3.87 an A or A-, how does that translate to the IB scale?

NCS (lowest GPAs in the past 3 cycles).
Northwestern 3.91
Vanderbilt 3.9
Rice 4.0 (yes, 4.0--so not a single A minus).

Basically, if your kid is not in the top 5 girls in their class at NCS--these are probably off the table.

Is it possible to get this data pre filtered by region or type of high school?

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I have kids at the trischools in Baltimore and there are definitely kids with lower gpa and no hooks getting into both these schools ED, last cycle. Do not need to be ii. top 10 percent of class.

From other post:

Naviance

Our private:
Emory: 3.76-3.88 (UW)
Wash U: 3.8-3.9 (UW)

Pasted from other post-

NCS Soir data for past 3 admissions cycles:

Emory 3.87+
Wash U 3.97+

All others waitlisted or rejected. So these are really only options for the top 5-10% of the class.

Saw the Emory post re NCS data for WashU and Emory.

Would love to crowdsource.
Can you show your schools avg data for these (or other similar) schools?
Public/private and region if not local?