Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 14:21     Subject: Re:Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Anonymous wrote:can someone explain how these gpa's correlate to the 4.0 ratings? Like what is equivalent to a 3.9?


Alumna here. We don’t do GPA on a 4 point scale and also don’t weight honors classes for class rank. Sometimes it leads to a situation where someone who wasn’t in the honors cadre (we tended to travel together in all classes since middle school) was higher up in the rankings than kids with “more rigor”. It still all evened out in the college acceptances. This is also a combination of two years worth of students, and there’s something weird about that one entry which I suspect if you actually knew the basis for the numbers would all make sense, like that entry is the place where typos went or something like that. This is not a “large” school.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 14:08     Subject: Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What's fascinating is that many of the most successful applicants are in the 95-96 GPA band and the tippy-top students are sometimes getting rejected everywhere.



94.96, 1540, in at MIT


Is there a reason for that? Is it FGLI ? or some kind of hook? Seems RD acceptances are much better than ED.

Typically MIT looks for talent demonstrated through exceptional ECs. Math, engineering, or computer science.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 14:08     Subject: Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Wait—the student was ranked #1 and didn’t apply to any top-5 colleges? Huh?
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 14:05     Subject: Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What's fascinating is that many of the most successful applicants are in the 95-96 GPA band and the tippy-top students are sometimes getting rejected everywhere.



94.96, 1540, in at MIT


Is there a reason for that? Is it FGLI ? or some kind of hook? Seems RD acceptances are much better than ED.
800 math. I don’t think MIT cares overmuch about verbal. In at all the engineering schools and out at all the Ivy-style privates, so probably a strong engineering-related EC.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 14:00     Subject: Re:Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Anonymous wrote:can someone explain how these gpa's correlate to the 4.0 ratings? Like what is equivalent to a 3.9?


I don't think you need to convert them. This report is provided as part of the school profile to colleges so that they can evaluate the grades/ranking/rigor in the context of the school.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 13:57     Subject: Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What's fascinating is that many of the most successful applicants are in the 95-96 GPA band and the tippy-top students are sometimes getting rejected everywhere.



94.96, 1540, in at MIT


Is there a reason for that? Is it FGLI ? or some kind of hook? Seems RD acceptances are much better than ED.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 13:55     Subject: Re:Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
can someone explain how these gpa's correlate to the 4.0 ratings? Like what is equivalent to a 3.9?
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 13:40     Subject: Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It's a Cornell feeder. Very very well known to AO. Extremely well-prepared kids.


I am a bit shocked at how many ED are to Cornell, Duke and NYU


Its a good well known school.
I'm not shocked by the acceptances, I am shocked by the popularity of those EDs
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 13:38     Subject: Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Anonymous wrote:Here is one student’s list…

Cal Poly; Illinois Inst. Tech (ED); Johns Hopkins U. (ED); Michigan State U. (EA);
Brown U. (ED); Carnegie Mellon U.;
Cooper Union (Adv. Sci. & Art) (ED);
NC State U. Raleigh; Ohio U.; Penn
Cornell U.; Duke U. (ED); Georgia Inst.
State U. (EA); Purdue U. (EA); RPI (ED);
Tech (EA); Northeastern U. (EA);
SUNY Stony Brook; Texas A&M U. (EA);
U. Colorado-Boulder; U. Illinois Urbana-
Northwestern U. (ED); Princeton U.; Rice
U. (ED); U. Michigan (Ann Arbor); U.
Champaign (EA); U. Minnesota; U.
Wisconsin (Madison); UMD-College
Penn (ED); U. Texas-Austin; UC Berkley;
UC Los Angeles; UC San Diego;
Park; Virginia Tech
Vanderbilt U.

Beyond unethical.


This person probably cheated their way through high school and the SAT.

They got into Johns Hopkins tho.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 12:56     Subject: Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Looked through the first ten pages, very few had good early (ED / REA) results. Multiple big wins in RD.
Anonymous
Post 02/01/2026 19:40     Subject: Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Anonymous wrote:What's fascinating is that many of the most successful applicants are in the 95-96 GPA band and the tippy-top students are sometimes getting rejected everywhere.



94.96, 1540, in at MIT
Anonymous
Post 02/01/2026 16:52     Subject: Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Anonymous wrote:20 cornell acceptees across 2 classes in a giant NY public school is very meh to me.

Agree.

In terms of Cornell acceptance, Jericho performs better, 25 matriculates (not acceptance) per class.
https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1725911375/jerichoschoolsorg/dzh0bcjjghg44ckiarfz/2024-2025SchoolProfile.pdf
Anonymous
Post 02/01/2026 14:17     Subject: Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Anonymous wrote:
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).


This kid had the best application season, one ED and done.
Anonymous
Post 02/01/2026 14:11     Subject: Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Their very top (#1) GPA kid (99.11, 1590, 17AP) got in UT, UVA, NYU only. What happened?


Might be a kid with NYU ties financially set for life. Not everyone is a prestige striver.


It's also not that weird for an ultra high stats kid to desire a Wall St career and ED to Stern.
Anonymous
Post 02/01/2026 14:05     Subject: Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
It's a numbers game in RD.

Premed kid 98.85, rejected Cornell, Duke, JHU, Yale. Accepted Penn and Brown.

Engineering kid 98.00, rejected ALL ivies except for Cornell and top SLACs, accepted Cornell.