Anonymous
Post 10/14/2024 12:29     Subject: what's the next Davidson.
Anonymous wrote:ISO an academically rigorous school that a B/B+ kid (from a private school) can get into. Late bloomer. Strong grades junior and senior years, but not the case of a bad 9th. Just mostly Bs in 9th and 10th. 35 ACT in single seating. A few AP exams that he self studied for, 5s in all.

Doesn't have to be a culture of rigor/academics, just want it to be available and a large enough cohort that he's not the odd man out.

Open to the UK.


Are you open to Canada and non-LACs? McGill would be out due to GPA cut-off, but UBC and U of T could both be options. Maybe Queen's U too? They are large publics though.

For LACs, perhaps Skidmore (NY), Macalester (MN), Haverford (PA), Oberlin (OH), Denison (OH)? Focus on LACs that aren't test blind and have him write his essay giving context for his slow false start or late bloom in HS, the ACT shows his potential as well as better grades in junior/senior years.

What does your college counsellor suggest?
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2024 12:16     Subject: what's the next Davidson.
Richmond?
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2024 12:09     Subject: what's the next Davidson.
I think Davidson moved from regional to national.

This is Davidson’s region so people here say, it’s always been good.

Find other regions
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2024 12:06     Subject: Re:what's the next Davidson.
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:Roanoke College


Come on. It’s not even the next up and coming odac school.


Huh? Why?


RMC then HSC then Roanoke. Emory and Henry left ODAC when it went to D2 but would also put that above Roanoke.


Where is your data to back any of this up?


It hasn’t happened yet - just straight vibes.

Roanoke has no brand value and a big gender imbalance. Launching the football team is intended to help correct that.
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2024 12:02     Subject: what's the next Davidson.
Rhodes, Sewanee, Hendrix, Trinity San Antonio, University of Denver, Tulane ED, if you are focused on Southern/Western private schools.
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2024 11:49     Subject: what's the next Davidson.
I agree about Elon.
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2024 11:31     Subject: what's the next Davidson.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think Elon is the answer to your question


Elon is much preppier than Davidson. App State is crunchy like Davidson. Elon is more like U Richmond and W&L.


Davidson is very preppy.
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2024 11:30     Subject: what's the next Davidson.
Anonymous wrote:I think Elon is the answer to your question


Elon is much preppier than Davidson. App State is crunchy like Davidson. Elon is more like U Richmond and W&L.
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2024 11:28     Subject: Re:what's the next Davidson.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Roanoke College


Come on. It’s not even the next up and coming odac school.


Huh? Why?


RMC then HSC then Roanoke. Emory and Henry left ODAC when it went to D2 but would also put that above Roanoke.


Where is your data to back any of this up?
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2024 09:43     Subject: what's the next Davidson.
Denison
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2024 09:13     Subject: what's the next Davidson.
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:Huh?

Davidson has always been a good school. It took people in the NE a while to realize that, but it's always been very in demand among southerners.

+1 Davidson has never taken mostly B students, even when those grades used to place one around the top 1/3. Davidson 30 yrs ago got a lot of cross applications and admits w Duke and Vanderbilt and UNCCH. 30 yrs ago, mid90s, UNCCH in state from one of the better public high schools, essentially required top 10%. Davidson did too , and often took the slightly higher subgroup. Duke has always favored NC students: the ones admitted from the better publics were top 3-5%.
Mostly Bs is a middle to bottom half kid at all but a very few strict-grading privates.
That kid in NC would be Unc greensboro, Elon, App state, sewanee these days. In the northeast Ursinius, Union, Lehigh?



Get off your high horse, op said mostly Bs from a private. Even today, everyone Davidson accepts from the two private schools my kids attend are not in the top 20 percent of the class. That isn’t a B. Average, but it isn’t more than an A minus.
Like many slacs, it loves kids from private schools.


This. My kids’ private sends many kids to Davidson, typically B/B+ with high test scores. ED helps. This is per Naviance, past three years.
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2024 08:42     Subject: what's the next Davidson.
Lafayette
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2024 08:39     Subject: what's the next Davidson.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Huh?

Davidson has always been a good school. It took people in the NE a while to realize that, but it's always been very in demand among southerners.

+1 Davidson has never taken mostly B students, even when those grades used to place one around the top 1/3. Davidson 30 yrs ago got a lot of cross applications and admits w Duke and Vanderbilt and UNCCH. 30 yrs ago, mid90s, UNCCH in state from one of the better public high schools, essentially required top 10%. Davidson did too , and often took the slightly higher subgroup. Duke has always favored NC students: the ones admitted from the better publics were top 3-5%.
Mostly Bs is a middle to bottom half kid at all but a very few strict-grading privates.
That kid in NC would be Unc greensboro, Elon, App state, sewanee these days. In the northeast Ursinius, Union, Lehigh?



Get off your high horse, op said mostly Bs from a private. Even today, everyone Davidson accepts from the two private schools my kids attend are not in the top 20 percent of the class. That isn’t a B. Average, but it isn’t more than an A minus.
Like many slacs, it loves kids from private schools.
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2024 08:35     Subject: what's the next Davidson.
I think Elon is the answer to your question
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2024 08:22     Subject: Re:what's the next Davidson.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Roanoke College


Come on. It’s not even the next up and coming odac school.


Huh? Why?


RMC then HSC then Roanoke. Emory and Henry left ODAC when it went to D2 but would also put that above Roanoke.