Anonymous
Post 05/12/2024 20:26     Subject: Where did your 3.6 GPA child get in?
Virginia Tech
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2024 20:15     Subject: Where did your 3.6 GPA child get in?
Focusing on GPA is misplaced. Focus on where you are within your class. A 3.6 GPA could be great at one school and not at another. My kid got into two Ivys with a 3.6 from a top private. I don't think that would have been the case coming out of a DC public.
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2024 20:05     Subject: Where did your 3.6 GPA child get in?
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Anonymous wrote:DC has a 3.6 and very high aspirations. I think he needs to look at Top 50 as his reaches but I'm told I don't know what I'm talking about. So just checking here out of curiosity to see if I'm really that off base. Can he get into a Top 20 with a 3.6?


T20 - No.
T50 - Absolutely!


3.6 from our private gets in to Wake ED; NYU ED2; Case (EA - lots of interest); and possibly
Lehigh
Bucknell
(depending on who else is applying)


WF is a 3.8 at our private's SCOIR/Naviance data. No 3.6 have been admitted in at least 5 years.


I can add that Lehigh and Bucknell are definitely possible. Bucknell goes down to a 3.3-3.4 with ED (in the past 2 years). Lehigh similar.

Wake is not. Emory is not. Those are 3.75+ schools, even with ED (from our private school.)


Private is not worth it if you can't even get into Wake Forest with a 3.8 that you had to work for. That said there is nothing wrong with Bucknell or Lehigh and those are good schools for engineering, but still feel for a kid who had to work his but off and parents who paid 200 K to say their kid is going to Bucknell.
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2024 19:30     Subject: Where did your 3.6 GPA child get in?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DC has a 3.6 and very high aspirations. I think he needs to look at Top 50 as his reaches but I'm told I don't know what I'm talking about. So just checking here out of curiosity to see if I'm really that off base. Can he get into a Top 20 with a 3.6?


T20 - No.
T50 - Absolutely!


3.6 from our private gets in to Wake ED; NYU ED2; Case (EA - lots of interest); and possibly
Lehigh
Bucknell
(depending on who else is applying)


WF is a 3.8 at our private's SCOIR/Naviance data. No 3.6 have been admitted in at least 5 years.


I can add that Lehigh and Bucknell are definitely possible. Bucknell goes down to a 3.3-3.4 with ED (in the past 2 years). Lehigh similar.

Wake is not. Emory is not. Those are 3.75+ schools, even with ED (from our private school.)
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2024 19:28     Subject: Where did your 3.6 GPA child get in?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DC has a 3.6 and very high aspirations. I think he needs to look at Top 50 as his reaches but I'm told I don't know what I'm talking about. So just checking here out of curiosity to see if I'm really that off base. Can he get into a Top 20 with a 3.6?


T20 - No.
T50 - Absolutely!


3.6 from our private gets in to Wake ED; NYU ED2; Case (EA - lots of interest); and possibly
Lehigh
Bucknell
(depending on who else is applying)


WF is a 3.8 at our private's SCOIR/Naviance data. No 3.6 have been admitted in at least 5 years.
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2024 19:10     Subject: Where did your 3.6 GPA child get i
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DC has a 3.6 and very high aspirations. I think he needs to look at Top 50 as his reaches but I'm told I don't know what I'm talking about. So just checking here out of curiosity to see if I'm really that off base. Can he get into a Top 20 with a 3.6?


T20 - No.
T50 - Absolutely!


3.6 from our private gets in to Wake ED; NYU ED2; Case (EA - lots of interest); and possibly
Lehigh
Bucknell
(depending on who else is applying)


As I said, not high enough GPA at ours and we send a ton of kids to T20. Perhaps op should check naviance/scoir for her son’s school.
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2024 18:52     Subject: Where did your 3.6 GPA child get in?
Anonymous wrote:Did you see this 3.6 ED from private - in an Emory.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/135/1193637.page


Compelling personal history? This kid has a hook, a normal 3.6 would not be admitted.
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2024 18:52     Subject: Where did your 3.6 GPA child get in?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DC has a 3.6 and very high aspirations. I think he needs to look at Top 50 as his reaches but I'm told I don't know what I'm talking about. So just checking here out of curiosity to see if I'm really that off base. Can he get into a Top 20 with a 3.6?


T20 - No.
T50 - Absolutely!


3.6 from our private gets in to Wake ED; NYU ED2; Case (EA - lots of interest); and possibly
Lehigh
Bucknell
(depending on who else is applying)
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2024 18:49     Subject: Where did your 3.6 GPA child get in?
Did you see this 3.6 ED from private - in an Emory.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/135/1193637.page
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2024 18:44     Subject: Where did your 3.6 GPA child get in?
Anonymous wrote:DC has a 3.6 and very high aspirations. I think he needs to look at Top 50 as his reaches but I'm told I don't know what I'm talking about. So just checking here out of curiosity to see if I'm really that off base. Can he get into a Top 20 with a 3.6?


T20 - No.
T50 - Absolutely!
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2024 18:38     Subject: Where did your 3.6 GPA child get in?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Try:
Case Western
NYU
Tufts (ED?)
Lehigh
Wake
Santa Clara


Not getting in any of these schools with a 3.6 even ED, except maybe Santa Clara.


I’m adding I have two kids who either attend or attended an an academically rigorous private, one of whom just finished their freshman year.
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2024 18:33     Subject: Where did your 3.6 GPA child get in?
Anonymous wrote:Try:
Case Western
NYU
Tufts (ED?)
Lehigh
Wake
Santa Clara


Not getting in any of these schools with a 3.6 even ED, except maybe Santa Clara.
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2024 18:32     Subject: Where did your 3.6 GPA child get in?
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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Unweighted, Private and plays two sports, but only one at a high level/year round.


Please share weighted GPA, test scores, and level of rigor (number of APs. how many are rigorous (AP BC Calc) vs. not (AP capstone).


Privates don’t have weighted gpa ppl

Some do, some don’t. You can estimate by adding .5 for honors course grades and adding 1 for AP, then recalculate the GPA.


Not so much at our private where there are no "AP classes....


advanced =AP. You need to ask the school how they will handle this compared to students who do not take these classes if there is no weighted GPA. It is up to parents to discuss.
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2024 15:25     Subject: Where did your 3.6 GPA child get in?
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP here. Unweighted, Private and plays two sports, but only one at a high level/year round.


Please share weighted GPA, test scores, and level of rigor (number of APs. how many are rigorous (AP BC Calc) vs. not (AP capstone).


Privates don’t have weighted gpa ppl

Some do, some don’t. You can estimate by adding .5 for honors course grades and adding 1 for AP, then recalculate the GPA.


Not so much at our private where there are no "AP classes....

Sure, but that wasn’t what I was answering.
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2024 15:24     Subject: Where did your 3.6 GPA child get in?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP here. Unweighted, Private and plays two sports, but only one at a high level/year round.


Please share weighted GPA, test scores, and level of rigor (number of APs. how many are rigorous (AP BC Calc) vs. not (AP capstone).


Privates don’t have weighted gpa ppl

Some do, some don’t. You can estimate by adding .5 for honors course grades and adding 1 for AP, then recalculate the GPA.


Not so much at our private where there are no "AP classes....