Anonymous wrote:This thread is polluted with a bunch of wildly over-optimistic people. A 3.8 does not look good when 3.9 and 4.0 GPAs are a dime-a-dozen. Anybody that thinks those stats are a lock for Vanderbilt or Chicago or Dartmouth is nuts.

For private schools it is not nuts.

Anonymous wrote:I found that private colleges give more weight to private school gpa’s. It’s harder at the top state schools. LAC’s and Ivies get it.

Definitely true. And you see it in the high schools results. Outperforming w/admissions offers at private colleges and under performing with admissions at public colleges.

I found that private colleges give more weight to private school gpa’s. It’s harder at the top state schools. LAC’s and Ivies get it.

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Anonymous wrote:Private school doesn't mean your kid has better odds for admission... it can work the other way. Grades can be inflated to appease the parents shelling out tuition money, and colleges want kids that aren't privileged in every way. Good luck to your kid, I just find the private school call out annoying.

NP. We’ve done both public and private. Private engaged in grade deflation. AO’s know this and the extent based on the particular school. Publics grade inflation. Public school parents with a chip on their shoulder usually say what you just did.

Im living the private school grade deflation right now. Its brutal.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is polluted with a bunch of wildly over-optimistic people. A 3.8 does not look good when 3.9 and 4.0 GPAs are a dime-a-dozen. Anybody that thinks those stats are a lock for Vanderbilt or Chicago or Dartmouth is nuts.

3.9 and 4.0 only a dime-a-dozen if you're at a public school or private that grade inflate. At our private, no one ever gets 4.0, NOT a single kid, and there maybe 5 kids who have 3.9. It's not unusual for a 3.85 kid with good SAT and good LOR to get into a lower Ivy, Vandy, Chicago if you ED. You wouldn't even need any beekeeper type crazy ECs.

Same with our private. Very difficult to get an A.

Anonymous wrote:Private school doesn't mean your kid has better odds for admission... it can work the other way. Grades can be inflated to appease the parents shelling out tuition money, and colleges want kids that aren't privileged in every way. Good luck to your kid, I just find the private school call out annoying.

NP. We’ve done both public and private. Private engaged in grade deflation. AO’s know this and the extent based on the particular school. Publics grade inflation. Public school parents with a chip on their shoulder usually say what you just did.

Anonymous wrote:This thread is polluted with a bunch of wildly over-optimistic people. A 3.8 does not look good when 3.9 and 4.0 GPAs are a dime-a-dozen. Anybody that thinks those stats are a lock for Vanderbilt or Chicago or Dartmouth is nuts.

3.9 and 4.0 only a dime-a-dozen if you're at a public school or private that grade inflate. At our private, no one ever gets 4.0, NOT a single kid, and there maybe 5 kids who have 3.9. It's not unusual for a 3.85 kid with good SAT and good LOR to get into a lower Ivy, Vandy, Chicago if you ED. You wouldn't even need any beekeeper type crazy ECs.

Anonymous wrote:Private school doesn't mean your kid has better odds for admission... it can work the other way. Grades can be inflated to appease the parents shelling out tuition money, and colleges want kids that aren't privileged in every way. Good luck to your kid, I just find the private school call out annoying.

Disagree. We've been in both public and private; the difference in college results are night and day. Saw so many top score/grade public kids including valedictorians shut out of T10/15 schools. Coming from a good public, you really need a 4.0, ranked top 2%, incredible ECs like winning national awards or more to stand out.

Coming from a respected private that is not known to colleges to grade inflate, if you have a 3.75 GPA and 1500+ SAT, you're in good shape for T25 schools as a baseline. If you have 3.85+ GPA, 1550+ SAT and have some interesting ECs, you can get into a T10 if you ED.

same!

Anonymous wrote:Private HS kid here with this GPA (3.8uw).
Non-stem female (social sciences or English major)
How did these kids do last year?

looking for more data on a kid like this - humanities major, female, selective private with 3.8uw.

Anonymous wrote:Private school doesn't mean your kid has better odds for admission... it can work the other way. Grades can be inflated to appease the parents shelling out tuition money, and colleges want kids that aren't privileged in every way. Good luck to your kid, I just find the private school call out annoying.

doesn't this depend on the precise HS?

That’s why it’s right in the title

While this thread is useful, it’s really only helpful to those folks with kids in selective private high schools.

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Anonymous wrote:I've seen Classics majors get into Yale, Princeton, Stanford.

+100000 and with 3.8 to boot

What other humanities majors are as favored as classics?

Anthropology?
Women’s Studies?

Bump for newbies looking for private school data