Anonymous
Post 03/07/2024 11:54     Subject: Suggest target schools for this profile
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Anonymous wrote:Please suggest target schools for this profile.

Current junior at FCPS large high school. Captain and starter of her varsity sport, but not a lot of other extracurriculars and not a candidate for D1 or sports scholarships or anything like that. Consistently has gotten 5 A’s and 2B’s each school year. 1250 SAT. Will have 8 AP’s. Prefers a smaller school.


What’s the uw GPA


3.7 (not OP, but if it's literally 5 A's and 2 B's each semester that's 3.7).


Op said school year not semester


(3.7 + 3.7) / 2 = 3.7
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2024 11:52     Subject: Suggest target schools for this profile
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Please suggest target schools for this profile.

Current junior at FCPS large high school. Captain and starter of her varsity sport, but not a lot of other extracurriculars and not a candidate for D1 or sports scholarships or anything like that. Consistently has gotten 5 A’s and 2B’s each school year. 1250 SAT. Will have 8 AP’s. Prefers a smaller school.


What’s the uw GPA


3.7 (not OP, but if it's literally 5 A's and 2 B's each semester that's 3.7).


Op said school year not semester
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2024 11:48     Subject: Suggest target schools for this profile
Mary Washington
I wouldn't want to go to a small school, but you said your daughter wanted to.
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2024 11:47     Subject: Suggest target schools for this profile
Anonymous wrote:OP, what is the GPA? Weighted and unweighted (if your school weights the GPA). Private or public hs?


Op already did a large fcps high school.
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2024 11:45     Subject: Suggest target schools for this profile
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Please suggest target schools for this profile.

Current junior at FCPS large high school. Captain and starter of her varsity sport, but not a lot of other extracurriculars and not a candidate for D1 or sports scholarships or anything like that. Consistently has gotten 5 A’s and 2B’s each school year. 1250 SAT. Will have 8 AP’s. Prefers a smaller school.


What’s the uw GPA


3.7 (not OP, but if it's literally 5 A's and 2 B's each semester that's 3.7).



But kids don’t take 7 academic classes. My guess some of those A’s are in electives like art or gym that colleges will throw out when recalculating the gpa.
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2024 11:45     Subject: Suggest target schools for this profile
Anonymous wrote:The people who just drop the 50 to 100 schools are nuts. Op, you need to talk to selectivity with a college counselor, not go off U.S. news rankings. Those stats will not be good enough for Tulane, NE, Miami, or Clemson oos. Think Syracuse, Delaware, JMU, maybe VTTech for a less competitive major.

But OP said her kid prefers a smaller school.

OP, has she looked at University of Dayton?
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2024 11:42     Subject: Suggest target schools for this profile
JMU seems like a perfect target school for a kid with this profile, especially if in-state VA. I liked some of the other large state school suggestions, such as Pitt and Delaware, as well as some of the recommended SLACs, like Dickinson and Wooster. Elon also another great idea!
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2024 11:28     Subject: Suggest target schools for this profile
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Please suggest target schools for this profile.

Current junior at FCPS large high school. Captain and starter of her varsity sport, but not a lot of other extracurriculars and not a candidate for D1 or sports scholarships or anything like that. Consistently has gotten 5 A’s and 2B’s each school year. 1250 SAT. Will have 8 AP’s. Prefers a smaller school.


What’s the uw GPA


3.7 (not OP, but if it's literally 5 A's and 2 B's each semester that's 3.7).
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2024 11:19     Subject: Suggest target schools for this profile
Anonymous wrote:Please suggest target schools for this profile.

Current junior at FCPS large high school. Captain and starter of her varsity sport, but not a lot of other extracurriculars and not a candidate for D1 or sports scholarships or anything like that. Consistently has gotten 5 A’s and 2B’s each school year. 1250 SAT. Will have 8 AP’s. Prefers a smaller school.


What’s the uw GPA
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2024 11:12     Subject: Suggest target schools for this profile
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Anonymous wrote:If you can swing it financially, apply Wake ED (always been TO).

Visit/show demonstrated interest (website/visits/webinars/AO)

Spend time on the app now.


This grades are not good enough for Wake, ED or not, not even close.


Last year, DC got into Wake RD with a 3.5 and test optional. No stellar ECs.


You must be first gen or urm.



No but DC did go to boarding school.


Amd you think that translates to public school in Northern VA where the grades are known to be inflated?

At our rigorous private with some grade deflation it takes a 3.8 or higher for Wake, plus more significant ecs than op listed. I know kids from three different private schools local to me attending Wake who were all school presidents.


MORE LIES.
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2024 11:08     Subject: Suggest target schools for this profile
Anonymous wrote:Franklin & Marshall
Lehigh
Bucknell
JMU

Apply TO


Won’t get into Lehigh even ED if that GPA is below a 3.7. Bucknell will also be a reach.
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2024 11:07     Subject: Suggest target schools for this profile
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Anonymous wrote:Denison, Macalester, Trinity, Lafayette, Fordham, Holy Cross, University of Rochester, American, Drexel, Syracuse


I think this is a pretty good list. Business will be a tougher major. Any chance she could prep some more and take the SAT again? Getting her above 1300 would be good, and she is very close.


Or is there another major that is a more natural fit?


Agree that business is a more competitive major, especially when there's a business school to be admitted to. Major at this stage is only the first idea
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2024 11:05     Subject: Suggest target schools for this profile
Franklin & Marshall
Lehigh
Bucknell
JMU

Apply TO
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2024 10:59     Subject: Suggest target schools for this profile
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Denison, Macalester, Trinity, Lafayette, Fordham, Holy Cross, University of Rochester, American, Drexel, Syracuse


I think this is a pretty good list. Business will be a tougher major. Any chance she could prep some more and take the SAT again? Getting her above 1300 would be good, and she is very close.


Or is there another major that is a more natural fit?
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2024 10:58     Subject: Suggest target schools for this profile
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The people who just drop the 50 to 100 schools are nuts. Op, you need to talk to selectivity with a college counselor, not go off U.S. news rankings. Those stats will not be good enough for Tulane, NE, Miami, or Clemson oos. Think Syracuse, Delaware, JMU, maybe VTTech for a less competitive major.


I still feel like we don't know enough about this kid. These suggestions are fine. So are the Muhlenberg/Ursinus suggestions. But really, so many would work. Probably Penn State and Pitt. I think a few suggested later are a little too lofty, like Lafayette and Fordham. But overall, this kid will have so many options.


Fordham isn't that lofty - according to the Princeton Review book they accept 54% with the average HS GPA 3.7 and only 27% submitting SAT scores, which are in the 1330 -1460 range.

I do agree with the PP who said another round of SAT might help; also what is the student doing this summer? It can enhance that EC profile.