Having such a high SAT score with a relatively low GPA makes him look low effort.

Anonymous wrote:3.8uw is kind of the minimum……rigor isn’t as important as everyone thinks

Minimum for what? Many kids get into college with lower GPAs than a 3.8uw. The problem seems to be that OP’s kid applied to 2 safeties and bunch of reaches. Why would he apply to VCU and GMU but not JMU? Is OP trolling?

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Anonymous wrote:Op here,

I think had his gpa been even 4.3 he could have gotten in to couple more… he has 4.1

He has top rigor classes like AP Physics C and Multivariable Calculus BC. But he never took 4 years of a foreign language.

Yes, he is also in a very competitive NOVA high school.

Just so baffled to see the string of rejections come in.

Maybe a waitlist will happen that is meant to be.

Sounds like all of your other schools were actually reaches, not targets. My child had a 3.63 weighted and 1230 SAT and got into every school he apploed to because he targeted schools within an accuate range. There is no reason for a child with a 4.1 and 1540 SAT to get waitlisted or rejected at 10 schools unless you were aiming too high across the board.

Which schools were these? Thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:He was rejected from JMU with those stats?

Actually he didn’t apply to JMU.

That was a mistake, he would have had a good safety option.

3.58 is not awful, but it likely raises questions about the disparity between the SAT and GPA. What was his class rank (roughly)?

As PP mentioned, not sure why you thought GA Tech, for example, was anything other than a reach. UIUC and UMD are competitive for specific majors and CWRU is no slouch either.

Sounds like you were missing the middle of the college list. The 4-5 schools where both GPA and SAT were in range where he almost certainly would have gotten into one or two at least.

Anonymous wrote:My child got rejected in ivies, waitlisted in some public and private which we were confident to be in, and in some OOS public schools with 4.45 / 1580. GPA is all schools care about. We thought it was rigor and GPA and we were wrong

This is not correct. GPA in relation to your school IS very important but at the level your kid was gunning for, so are: impact, ECs, leadership, etc. I am guessing a 4.45 was not the top of the HS (our FCPS this year had a top of a 4.6+). Were the ECs amazing?

When you have good stats, though, at the level of ivies, there is a baseline and if you cross that, they ask what else do ya got? So even if the 4.45 crossed that baseline, I suspect the ECs were not at the expected level for these schools.

3.8uw is kind of the minimum……rigor isn’t as important as everyone thinks

Anonymous wrote:Op here,

I think had his gpa been even 4.3 he could have gotten in to couple more… he has 4.1

He has top rigor classes like AP Physics C and Multivariable Calculus BC. But he never took 4 years of a foreign language.

Yes, he is also in a very competitive NOVA high school.

Just so baffled to see the string of rejections come in.

Maybe a waitlist will happen that is meant to be.

What were his grades in these 2 APs? These are hard. If scored a 5 in each then you didn't apply to enough colleges.

Sometimes (may not apply to your child) people try to take these hard APs for the sake of taking them. if you do well they won't hurt you, but if you bombed them they hurt you.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:op again
sorry about the typos on my previous post.

Which OOS public did he apply to? All high reaches?

Case Western, Ga Tech UMd

CWRU is private, no?

What was his unweighted GPA?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:op again
sorry about the typos on my previous post.

Which OOS public did he apply to? All high reaches?

Case Western, Ga Tech UMd

I don’t know anything about Case Western, but Ga Teach and UMD are reaches with a 3.6uw/4.1w. What schools were targets for him?

Anonymous wrote:He was rejected from JMU with those stats?

Actually he didn’t apply to JMU.

He was rejected from JMU with those stats?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:op again
sorry about the typos on my previous post.

Which OOS public did he apply to? All high reaches?

Case Western, Ga Tech UMd

Anonymous wrote:op again
sorry about the typos on my previous post.

Which OOS public did he apply to? All high reaches?

op again
sorry about the typos on my previous post.