What about NYU? USC? St Andrew’s? Honors colleges at publics. SMU. For OH/PA, I agree on Kenyon, Denison, Lehigh, Lafayette & Villanova. Also throwing in Notre Dame for a reach. Try Santa Clara & University of San Diego if you’re ok with the west coast. My own student is the same (but at a competitive public), and she likes bigger universities, so she’ll be trying for Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan/Michigan State, Auburn, USC plus ND.

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Anonymous wrote:Reaches might be Vassar and swathmore.

Swarthmore would be a waste of an app, Vassar a maybe.

Not if she is interested in playing a sport (and it’s mutual). The easiest path to a prestigious school may be approaching D3 coaches and expressing interest, and seeing what they say. That could give her a boost. Is she a sophomore?

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Anonymous wrote:GC thinks it is too early? What her grade?

11th

They said spring, so it should be soon. But it's disappointing because it doesn't leave much time for tours before the end of this school year.

My DC's elite high school counselors made sure to give us ideas of schools to tour over Junior year spring break. If your kid's school is that good, they should be doing the same.

I chuckle every time I see "elite". My FCPS DS got an appointment to West Point and a ride to Princeton.

West Point parents are the worst.

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Anonymous wrote:ED Chicago or Cornell or Tulane, BC, Wake, UVA, Wisc, Colby, Bowdoin, Richmond, Sewanee

Unless legacy, Chicago and Cornell seem risky. Maybe Tulane, Wake, etc.

agree, DD did not get in to Cornell ED with basically the same stats/EC. We played the ED game and lost as it would have been better to ED to UVA and so now she is stressing getting accepted there since she is from a NOVA private.

Is UVA known to be harder to get into from NOVA privates?

are you new here? UVA is harder to get into if you are from NOVA vs. SW VA, Southern VA, etc. Also, harder if you are at a "better" FCPS or ACS school (think Langley vs. Herndon) and even harder if you are private.

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Anonymous wrote:If its truly a highly selective high school that does not inflate grades eg TJ, a B+ to A- grade gpa would qualify to any of the T25’s

This is not true! a B+ to A- grade at TJ won't get you admitted to UVA for sure. UVA is looking for 4.3+ minimum there and only offers to about 1/4 of the graduating class. OP, if your kid is at TJ, UVA and VT are not match schools if the grade is B+/A-.

Sadly this is true. Our TJ counselor said kids need 4.4+ to get into UVA. VT is weird and rejected a lot of TJ kids last year. She suggested VCU for my 4.3 DC ...

Anonymous wrote:If its truly a highly selective high school that does not inflate grades eg TJ, a B+ to A- grade gpa would qualify to any of the T25’s

This is not true! a B+ to A- grade at TJ won't get you admitted to UVA for sure. UVA is looking for 4.3+ minimum there and only offers to about 1/4 of the graduating class. OP, if your kid is at TJ, UVA and VT are not match schools if the grade is B+/A-.

Anonymous wrote:VA Tech
U of Richmond
BU and BC
Wake Forest
Tulane
Denison
Mount Holyoke
Lafayette and Lehigh
Union
Ohio State
Pitt
UNH

Yes,
Also University of Rochester

Anonymous wrote:If its truly a highly selective high school that does not inflate grades eg TJ, a B+ to A- grade gpa would qualify to any of the T25’s

Truly a highly selective high school with no grade inflation

If its truly a highly selective high school that does not inflate grades eg TJ, a B+ to A- grade gpa would qualify to any of the T25’s

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Anonymous wrote:A C+ for the quarter, not the year, correct? If your child is only a junior, don’t they have time to get that grade up before end of the year? At my child’s high school the transcript only reflects end of year grades or grades to date for senior year, so one quarter of a C+ could turn into a B, etc…

Our high school reports only one grade, the year-end grade. His quarter grades were C+, B-, B, C+, with a C- on the midterm and no final. For AP classes, each quarter is 2/9 and the midterm is 1/9.
My kid had a 79.222 for the year, which the teacher would not round up to a B-. Really sucked but what can you do?
(This was junior year and he is now a senior.)

C's get degrees.

ED to any SLAC ranked outside of the top 10.

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Anonymous wrote:ED Chicago or Cornell or Tulane, BC, Wake, UVA, Wisc, Colby, Bowdoin, Richmond, Sewanee

Unless legacy, Chicago and Cornell seem risky. Maybe Tulane, Wake, etc.

agree, DD did not get in to Cornell ED with basically the same stats/EC. We played the ED game and lost as it would have been better to ED to UVA and so now she is stressing getting accepted there since she is from a NOVA private.

Is UVA known to be harder to get into from NOVA privates?

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Anonymous wrote:ED Chicago or Cornell or Tulane, BC, Wake, UVA, Wisc, Colby, Bowdoin, Richmond, Sewanee

Unless legacy, Chicago and Cornell seem risky. Maybe Tulane, Wake, etc.

agree, DD did not get in to Cornell ED with basically the same stats/EC. We played the ED game and lost as it would have been better to ED to UVA and so now she is stressing getting accepted there since she is from a NOVA private.

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Anonymous wrote:GC thinks it is too early? What her grade?

11th

They said spring, so it should be soon. But it's disappointing because it doesn't leave much time for tours before the end of this school year.

My DC's elite high school counselors made sure to give us ideas of schools to tour over Junior year spring break. If your kid's school is that good, they should be doing the same.

I chuckle every time I see "elite". My FCPS DS got an appointment to West Point and a ride to Princeton.

I chuckle when people talk about “rides” to schools that only give need based aid.

Anonymous wrote:Bucknell would be a great option for a student like that.

Especially if she likes to drink!