Anonymous
Post 01/31/2026 17:17     Subject: Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
It's a Cornell feeder. Very very well known to AO. Extremely well-prepared kids.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2026 17:13     Subject: Re:Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This feels like extremely sensitive data that should not be available to people outside the school’s college counseling office. I’m also not sure what purpose this data serves to DCUM parents except for giving them false hope.


I agree is seems extremely sensitive. I don't understand your point about false hope though.


OP frames this school as if it is some random NY public high school. It is in a well-known, very high-income area outside of NYC. Most people would consider this a bottom-tier public feeder; as such, it is misleading to think that the admissions results of kids with low-ish stats from this school can happen at any suburban public HS.


My read of OP’s post is that college admissions is a holistic process. Low-ish gpa will not get you there unless there are something else. The data demonstrates it well. A multi-factor process.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2026 17:03     Subject: Re:Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This feels like extremely sensitive data that should not be available to people outside the school’s college counseling office. I’m also not sure what purpose this data serves to DCUM parents except for giving them false hope.


I agree is seems extremely sensitive. I don't understand your point about false hope though.


OP frames this school as if it is some random NY public high school. It is in a well-known, very high-income area outside of NYC. Most people would consider this a bottom-tier public feeder; as such, it is misleading to think that the admissions results of kids with low-ish stats from this school can happen at any suburban public HS.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2026 16:56     Subject: Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This is my high school (although quite a few years ago). No weighted grades, and the counselors have relationships with top schools. It’s also why I am totally underwhelmed with NOVA schools. They took care of us way better in all ways than the schools here. Most of these kids will also be full pay.
Great Neck is West Egg, isn’t it? It’s not just some suburb in New York.


Correct, although that part of town goes to North. The school is also relatively small. That’s two years’ worth of results. The ethnic demographics have also been shifting. It is much more Asian now - it used to be almost entirely Jewish.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2026 16:48     Subject: Re:Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Anonymous wrote:This feels like extremely sensitive data that should not be available to people outside the school’s college counseling office. I’m also not sure what purpose this data serves to DCUM parents except for giving them false hope.


I agree is seems extremely sensitive. I don't understand your point about false hope though.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2026 16:39     Subject: Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This is my high school (although quite a few years ago). No weighted grades, and the counselors have relationships with top schools. It’s also why I am totally underwhelmed with NOVA schools. They took care of us way better in all ways than the schools here. Most of these kids will also be full pay.
Great Neck is West Egg, isn’t it? It’s not just some suburb in New York.


The school is 75% Asian immigrants’ kids.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2026 16:35     Subject: Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Anonymous wrote:This is my high school (although quite a few years ago). No weighted grades, and the counselors have relationships with top schools. It’s also why I am totally underwhelmed with NOVA schools. They took care of us way better in all ways than the schools here. Most of these kids will also be full pay.
Great Neck is West Egg, isn’t it? It’s not just some suburb in New York.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2026 16:30     Subject: Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
This is my high school (although quite a few years ago). No weighted grades, and the counselors have relationships with top schools. It’s also why I am totally underwhelmed with NOVA schools. They took care of us way better in all ways than the schools here. Most of these kids will also be full pay.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2026 16:25     Subject: Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Page 8 - GPA 95.61, SAT score 1560. Got rejected ED from Penn but got into Stanford, Brown and other top places.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2026 16:18     Subject: Re:Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
This feels like extremely sensitive data that should not be available to people outside the school’s college counseling office. I’m also not sure what purpose this data serves to DCUM parents except for giving them false hope.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2026 16:16     Subject: Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1757445385/greatneckk12nyus/q7y8mxdiqytrdz2lycb2/SHS-SummaryReport-PROOF-WEBSITE-VERSION-R2.pdf

First five pages: High test score (1500+) AND high GPA (top 10%). Excellent results. Cornell, Brown, T5

At or below 50% GPA, there are a few standout acceptances (T30 schools):
page 37, 1560, NYU
page 36, 1520, Boston U
page 29, 1520, Boston U
page 28, 1520, Emory
page 28, 1560, UM
page 27, 1540, CMU
page 27, 1520, UM
page 26, 1560, NYU
page 21, 1570, Columbia

The rest of below 50% mostly go to SUNY and CUNY without a high test score.

I wish every school has this kind of transparency so we don't have to rely on anecdata.


Yikes. I know the 4th person list. At Cornell now.

This should be taken down.


Public information.

The high school provides yearly report on their school profile website.

https://shs.greatneck.k12.ny.us/departments/guidance/school-profile
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2026 16:12     Subject: Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1757445385/greatneckk12nyus/q7y8mxdiqytrdz2lycb2/SHS-SummaryReport-PROOF-WEBSITE-VERSION-R2.pdf

First five pages: High test score (1500+) AND high GPA (top 10%). Excellent results. Cornell, Brown, T5

At or below 50% GPA, there are a few standout acceptances (T30 schools):
page 37, 1560, NYU
page 36, 1520, Boston U
page 29, 1520, Boston U
page 28, 1520, Emory
page 28, 1560, UM
page 27, 1540, CMU
page 27, 1520, UM
page 26, 1560, NYU
page 21, 1570, Columbia

The rest of below 50% mostly go to SUNY and CUNY without a high test score.

I wish every school has this kind of transparency so we don't have to rely on anecdata.


Pages 19-21, around top 30% GPA band, some ivy/T20 acceptance with high test scores:
page 19, 1560, Cornell
page 20, 1570, UM
page 21, 1540, Rice
page 21, 1570, Columbia
page 21, 1550, Cornell


Penn took a 1590 kid top 25% (94.38).
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2026 16:10     Subject: Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Anonymous wrote:https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1757445385/greatneckk12nyus/q7y8mxdiqytrdz2lycb2/SHS-SummaryReport-PROOF-WEBSITE-VERSION-R2.pdf

First five pages: High test score (1500+) AND high GPA (top 10%). Excellent results. Cornell, Brown, T5

At or below 50% GPA, there are a few standout acceptances (T30 schools):
page 37, 1560, NYU
page 36, 1520, Boston U
page 29, 1520, Boston U
page 28, 1520, Emory
page 28, 1560, UM
page 27, 1540, CMU
page 27, 1520, UM
page 26, 1560, NYU
page 21, 1570, Columbia

The rest of below 50% mostly go to SUNY and CUNY without a high test score.

I wish every school has this kind of transparency so we don't have to rely on anecdata.


Yikes. I know the 4th person list. At Cornell now.

This should be taken down.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2026 16:04     Subject: Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Anonymous wrote:I wonder if the multiple EDs is a way of denoting Questbridge applications.


Several of the ED schools are not participants in Questbridge.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2026 15:50     Subject: Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I feel bad for page 8. 95.71, no SAT and no ACT headed to Nassau Community College. What is that about?


Planning on transferring to Stony Brook or Bing? Tuition saving.


I guess, just such an outlier in that GPA range with the Georgetown, Cornell, etc acceptances.