<p>Mommylaw, I’d never even heard of naviance till I came to CC.</p>
<p>Our hs doesn’t have Naviance. It’s not free, and our budgets are stretched too tightly to afford it.</p>
<p>Yes, colleges do notify GCs their decisions.</p>
<p>Wow, scary. Seems silly to even apply to HPY, no matter how good your stats are.</p>
<p>I find it interesting that my hs has a similar class size, but appears to send fewer applications to HYPS (and we’re much closer to HYP).</p>
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<p>It probably depends on the school. At my school a 4.5+/5.0 weighted (about a 3.5-3.6 with a rigorous course load) is competitive for many top 20 schools and top LACs. HYPS and some other schools would probably need higher GPAs to be considered competitive, though.</p>
<h1>692 would disagree with us. 3.55, 2310 sat. rejected from top schools. No ec’s or volunteer work though. Oh well, it’s not going to stop me from applying where I want. These results do encourage me greatly to improve my SATS 100 points or so though.</h1>
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Are we talking about kids applying to multiple top schools, or just one or two? We let our son apply to Cornell even though his chances of getting in were near zero (2230 SAT but sub-3.5 GPA, no hooks). But we wouldn’t have paid for three or four applications like that.</p>
<p>This was very interesting; thanks for posting it!</p>
<p>In reading the possible ECs, I wonder about the category of “research” at your school, OP. Is there an established program that facilitates students engaging in research? </p>
<p>I have read that colleges like to see that students have engaged in original research, but I always thought that only those kids who lived near colleges and knew professors had an opportunity to do so.</p>
<p>Ours does have naviance but just since the middle of last year. Thanks for posting this. We are in a similarly sized high school just up the coast from this, so it is very interesting to us.</p>
<p>Am I reading this right - student #532 applied to thirty eight schools?</p>
<p>Interesting…
For example 932, accepted everywhere, and had athletics, ECs, leadership etc. so with a 2200, definitley a well rounded special kid…Shows perfect stats do not make an admit…</p>
<p>This chart is so much more useful than Naviance because it has the extra information about sports.</p>
<p>Claremont McKenna accepted none of the 16 applicants, including the three students who had 10 or more AP classes. That’s interesting.</p>
<p>We live “down the coast” in Orange County, but our school is very different demographically (we are 60% ESL/free lunch) and comparing the stats, some of the kids with similar or lower stats were accepted to USC, where my son was not, but were rejected by a lot of the UC’s (UCLA, Berkeley) that accepted my son. I think the UC’s might give extra points for going to a “low-performing” school. And possibly USC takes “ability to pay” into consideration.</p>
<p>I am envious. Our school does not collect data like this. Don’t even know where to start researching…</p>
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<p>Well, the girl got accepted in our HS is the team captain of the “Wiz Kid” trivial pursuit on TV, which won the top trophy in the SF region by a huge margin(in one game I watched, they got 900 and the other team got like 500). She also had a sterling acadamic career although she is not the val or sal.</p>
<p>Thanks for posting this. Our school does not have naviance so it was helpful to see the stats and results.</p>
<p>I’m finding this pretty discouraging, actually. I realize it doesn’t reflect ALL of the students across the country who applied to a given college, but assuming it’s a representative sample, it doesn’t seem to bode well for my S.</p>
<p>S is a HS junior, 2.88 GPA so far (no AP and none planned), and he recently took a practice SAT on which he scored 1600/2400 (this was going into the test completely cold, no prep whatsoever). Seems he’s only got a shot at the least selective schools, and those generally have low graduation rates. :(</p>
<p>In need of cheering up.</p>
<p>this really is an interesting body of information. I am left feeling:</p>
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<li><p>Sorry for the GC’s who have to put together the info for all of those apps</p></li>
<li><p>Compassion for the adcoms who have to read through all of the apps (especially if they say they are “holistic” and thorough</p></li>
<li><p>Worried for S, who is a great candidate, but the data don’t lie and this process does appear to be like the lottery</p></li>
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<p>Bflo: unless you see a school profile for this school, you have no idea where a 2.88 sits in the spectrum so don’t panic…</p>
<p>this thread definitely sucked up an hour or more of my time last night but very interesting; most shocking the sheer number of students who applied to tippy-top schools;</p>
<p>no wonder the admission rates are below 7%…</p>