Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:3.8, 2320, various ec's but nothing to knock your socks off. no hooks.

What are hooks?

Ok I googled http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/1921183/

So legacy, affirmative action, maybe champion athlete?

Does legacy even help these days at the ivies, I though GWB kind of soured that?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:3.8, 2320, various ec's but nothing to knock your socks off. no hooks.

What are hooks?

Ok I googled http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/1921183/

So legacy, affirmative action, maybe champion athlete?

Anonymous wrote:3.8, 2320, various ec's but nothing to knock your socks off. no hooks.

What are hooks?

Anonymous wrote:3.8, 2320, various ec's but nothing to knock your socks off. no hooks.

At Sidwell, your child would be the top of the class with those stats. Still no guarantee for Ivys, but she'll get into a good schoool for sure. Every DC private has a different grading system.

Anonymous wrote:3.8, 2320, various ec's but nothing to knock your socks off. no hooks.

3.8 is not a middling student. Is this the Duke early decision mom?

I'm from the NE and up there, average students from privates went to schools like NYU, Tufts, Vassar, Colgate, Boston College, Wellesley, UMich, etc. They were normally lower first tier or top second tier colleges.

Actually, a "2320" isn't a humble brag. It's a brag. I would kill if my kids could get that score.

"2320" oh please! humble brag. Leaving this thread now.
BTW, Carleton is spelled with an "e".

3.8, 2320, various ec's but nothing to knock your socks off. no hooks.

Depends on GPA and SATs OP plus ECs. If you fill in those blanks, I'll give "guesstimates" based upon my experience in college counseling. Also, if you're URM or recruitable athlete, please fill in that blank as well or legacy.

OP does your school make Naviance available? That would answer your question.

Agree it really depends, what are her scores on PSAT like? How difficult is her courseload? If NMSF even if you believe "middling" in terms of grades will be looking at different places than if scores in the 2100 or lower range. Someone with SATs below 2100 and no hooks isn't going to getting into Duke or any other top 10-20 school most likely. One of our kids was probably top 10% of class, NMF and ended up at top Ivy EA, other was more like top 25% also NMSF and was admitted to a top 3 SLAC ED.

Kids in their schools that seemed more middle of the pack in terms of classes taken and who applied early decision aspirationally (and clearly applying ED to these sort of schools helped according to counselors since the schools are so fixated on the percentage of kids admitted who attend) often were applying to and sometimes admitted to included Wash U, Emory, Tulane, Hopkins, Wesleyan, Tufts, Northwestern, Davidson, Claremont-McKenna, Reed, Oberlin, Kenyon, Carlton, other midwestern SLACs, Wake Forest to name a few.

Anonymous wrote:DD is a middling student and got into Duke early decision.

Congrats to her! Did she have any hooks? Were her SATs exceptional? How helpful was your college counselor?

Anonymous wrote:DD is a middling student and got into Duke early decision.

If she's truly middling, she's got to be hooked. The think is, though, many "Big 3" parents believe their kids are middling because they don't have straight A's. The reality is there are only a handful of kids -- if that many -- in any given class with straight A's, so your mostly A's and some B's kid is not really middle of the pack at all.

DD is a middling student and got into Duke early decision.

We'll be applying to colleges next year. We're at a "top private," although my DD is just in the middle of the pack academically. We're trying to get a bead on which schools the middling students and even below middling students at the top privates go ED. Counselor has been zero help. Thought you experienced moms might have better insights into this.

Thanks.