Anonymous
Post 05/12/2024 02:26     Subject: Where did your 3.6 GPA child get in?
What is his intended major?
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2024 02:15     Subject: Where did your 3.6 GPA child get in?
Anonymous wrote:Try:
Case Western
NYU
Tufts (ED?)
Lehigh
Wake
Santa Clara


This is a good list. Thank you...

I had brought up NYU for ED. I also mentioned he look into UMD and AU and he guffawed like I had insulted him. I hope his college counselor gives him more hard truths in the Fall so he hears it from someone else.
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2024 01:20     Subject: Where did your 3.6 GPA child get in?
Trouble is what mine will be getting in if they don't bring home at least a 3.8
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2024 00:56     Subject: Where did your 3.6 GPA child get in?
Anonymous wrote:Tufts and NYU are not viable options based on my kid’s private high school. They are turning down 4.0uw/1500+ legacies left and right.


ED/ED2would be required for this kid.
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2024 00:45     Subject: Where did your 3.6 GPA child get in?
Tufts and NYU are not viable options based on my kid’s private high school. They are turning down 4.0uw/1500+ legacies left and right.
Anonymous
Post 05/11/2024 23:48     Subject: Where did your 3.6 GPA child get in?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Unless there is a hook, 3.6 is a long shot for T20 . T50 is possbile.


This.
Not at our private.

3.8 though and you can….


Agree with this. 3.8 is pretty much the outer reaches of the top20 at our Big3 school.

Athletes can go down to a 3.6.
Anonymous
Post 05/11/2024 23:45     Subject: Where did your 3.6 GPA child get in?
Try:
Case Western
NYU
Tufts (ED?)
Lehigh
Wake
Santa Clara
Anonymous
Post 05/11/2024 23:21     Subject: Where did your 3.6 GPA child get in?
What high school?
Anonymous
Post 05/11/2024 23:21     Subject: Where did your 3.6 GPA child get in?
Anonymous wrote:Unless there is a hook, 3.6 is a long shot for T20 . T50 is possbile.


This.
Not at our private.

3.8 though and you can….
Anonymous
Post 05/11/2024 22:21     Subject: Where did your 3.6 GPA child get in?
Anonymous wrote:Unless there is a hook, 3.6 is a long shot for T20 . T50 is possbile.


That's what I thought, but he claims I dont know anything since "things are different now." I was hoping his college counselor would talk some sense into him but they just told him to make sure he has a backup option.
Anonymous
Post 05/11/2024 22:16     Subject: Where did your 3.6 GPA child get in?
Unless there is a hook, 3.6 is a long shot for T20 . T50 is possbile.
Anonymous
Post 05/11/2024 22:08     Subject: Where did your 3.6 GPA child get in?
OP here. Unweighted, Private and plays two sports, but only one at a high level/year round.
Anonymous
Post 05/11/2024 22:00     Subject: Where did your 3.6 GPA child get in?
Weighted or unweighted? Private or public?
Anonymous
Post 05/11/2024 21:56     Subject: Where did your 3.6 GPA child get in?
Absolutely! Is he an amazing athlete? National level ECs? Exceptional recommendations and LORs? There is so much more to an application outside of GPA, but a 3.6 is going to need really strong extras to gain admission to a T50 school.
Anonymous
Post 05/11/2024 21:39     Subject: Where did your 3.6 GPA child get in?
DC has a 3.6 and very high aspirations. I think he needs to look at Top 50 as his reaches but I'm told I don't know what I'm talking about. So just checking here out of curiosity to see if I'm really that off base. Can he get into a Top 20 with a 3.6?