Anonymous
Post 10/02/2023 10:14     Subject: Low GPA, decent SAT, What options
If you're a Virginia resident, there are many schools where your child would get in, lots of options. GMU, JMU, CNU, ODU, VCU, Radford, Emory and Henry, Roanoke College, etc. Your could do very well at any of them and apply to grad school if that's in the plan. Or get an AA at a community college and transfer into a Tier 1.
Anonymous
Post 10/02/2023 10:14     Subject: Low GPA, decent SAT, What options
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DS is similar to OP's kid - 3.25/3.75 GPA (UW/W) and 1500 SAT. rigorous schedule. 5 APs so far and another 6 senior year. No real upward trend in GPA over the years.

Any recommendations on schools?

What is your DS interested in?
Iwhat are the current schools considering?


Computing/adjacent (DS,IS, analytics, etc.). Applying to a slew of nearby publics - GMU, VCU, JMU, Tech, Del, UMBC, Pitt, etc. and Drexel, RPI and RIT. Not thinking of ED right now. Wondering if we should be applying to more privates. Hope to keep COA to about 50K/year.
Anonymous
Post 10/02/2023 10:09     Subject: Low GPA, decent SAT, What options
What state are you in?
Anonymous
Post 10/02/2023 10:02     Subject: Low GPA, decent SAT, What options
I'd look at schools where DC's SAT score is above the 75%- they may be looking to boost those stats.
Anonymous
Post 10/02/2023 09:59     Subject: Re:Low GPA, decent SAT, What options
Anonymous wrote:I don’t like that 3.5 is characterized as a “low” GPA here. No, Georgetown is not a realistic option, but NOVA isn’t their only alternative either.

There are lots of possibilities for a student with this profile. It would help to know more about geographic preferences, intended major or course of study, type of vibe/extracurriculars, etc.


+1
Anonymous
Post 10/02/2023 09:46     Subject: Re:Low GPA, decent SAT, What options
I don’t like that 3.5 is characterized as a “low” GPA here. No, Georgetown is not a realistic option, but NOVA isn’t their only alternative either.

There are lots of possibilities for a student with this profile. It would help to know more about geographic preferences, intended major or course of study, type of vibe/extracurriculars, etc.
Anonymous
Post 10/02/2023 09:43     Subject: Low GPA, decent SAT, What options
Anonymous wrote:DS is similar to OP's kid - 3.25/3.75 GPA (UW/W) and 1500 SAT. rigorous schedule. 5 APs so far and another 6 senior year. No real upward trend in GPA over the years.

Any recommendations on schools?

What is your DS interested in?
Iwhat are the current schools considering?
Anonymous
Post 10/02/2023 09:41     Subject: Low GPA, decent SAT, What options
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Boston College

This is DS's ED choice and I know the scattergram well - there's less than a 10% chance a kid with a 3.5 or lower GPA is accepted ED. I assume those accepted are recruited athletes or related to the pope or something special. I assume the chance is essentially zero at Georgetown.


No. You cannot compare a private to a public. Most privates do not have a GPA other than for parents to see. A 3.5
with hardest classes is good at a top private. You would not see this reflected in scattergram a because there is essentially no GPA.
Anonymous
Post 10/02/2023 09:40     Subject: Low GPA, decent SAT, What options
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If she has a lot of rigor in her transcript, she is likely going to have a lot of choices - Georgetown, Boston College, a lot of SLACs,
What is she looking to study?

Adding to the chorus of these two schools being unlikely. Georgetown likes top, top grades. BC does too, but at least offers an ED option.

Schools that report lower GPAs include Tulane and Lehigh.

U Rochester.


Is U Rochester a possible admit for a kid like OPs, assuming the GPA is from a public school and weighted?
Anonymous
Post 10/02/2023 09:38     Subject: Low GPA, decent SAT, What options
Anonymous wrote:DS is similar to OP's kid - 3.25/3.75 GPA (UW/W) and 1500 SAT. rigorous schedule. 5 APs so far and another 6 senior year. No real upward trend in GPA over the years.

Any recommendations on schools?


^^ PP again. FCPS public.
Anonymous
Post 10/02/2023 09:38     Subject: Low GPA, decent SAT, What options
DS is similar to OP's kid - 3.25/3.75 GPA (UW/W) and 1500 SAT. rigorous schedule. 5 APs so far and another 6 senior year. No real upward trend in GPA over the years.

Any recommendations on schools?
Anonymous
Post 10/02/2023 09:30     Subject: Low GPA, decent SAT, What options
Elon?
High Point
Loyola Maryland
University of Mary Washington
George Washington
American (reaches)
Anonymous
Post 10/02/2023 09:11     Subject: Low GPA, decent SAT, What options
Anonymous wrote:If she has a lot of rigor in her transcript, she is likely going to have a lot of choices - Georgetown, Boston College

example of how an ignorant post can derail a thread
Anonymous
Post 10/02/2023 09:04     Subject: Low GPA, decent SAT, What options
Anonymous wrote:If she has a lot of rigor in her transcript, she is likely going to have a lot of choices - Georgetown, Boston College, a lot of SLACs,
What is she looking to study?

Adding to the chorus of these two schools being unlikely. Georgetown likes top, top grades. BC does too, but at least offers an ED option.

Schools that report lower GPAs include Tulane and Lehigh.

U Rochester.
Anonymous
Post 10/02/2023 08:57     Subject: Re:Low GPA, decent SAT, What options
NOVA
George Mason
Longwood