<p>Got my first acceptance today!
GPA: 87ish unweighted/93ish weighted
SAT: 1770</p>
<p>Applied to:
Emerson (accepted!!), Ithaca, Lesley</p>
<p>I’m also applying to some state schools but I am SO happy about my Emerson acceptance. I was feeling nervous about it because it’s my first choice but I got in!</p>
<p>Congrats on all of your acceptances and good luck in finding out your other decisions!</p>
<p>I would say I’m slightly above average so
93 UW 96 W
28 ACT
1790 SAT
A bunch of AP courses and all honors except for one class this senior year</p>
<p>And so far I’ve been accepted to one of my top Northeastern University!</p>
<p>3.41 GPA (school doesnt weight) 1960 SAT</p>
<p>accepted: Towson (merit pending) UMass Amherst (8000 per year)
deferred: Tulane and Northeastern</p>
<p>applied: University of Miami, Miami OH, Ithaca College, Elon, SUNY Bing, SUNY new paltz, University of Delaware, Syracuse, James Madison university, UConn</p>
<p>thank you 5am6996! and lilkickster that’s awesome, congrats to you :)</p>
<p>ConfusedMominMA -As a mom of a Sr, I read posts on this sight but have yet to post myself but needed to reply to another Mom from Mass. - has your son checked the UNH web login? My son had not received anything by email or snail mail for his early action app but checked the login on Friday night and found that his status had changed to Accepted to Whittemore School of Business @ UNH. Hope this helps!</p>
<p>3.2 GPA Uw, 1800 SAT, (African-American)
So far I’ve been:
Accepted to Tulane, postponed from Wisconsin madison, deferred from Northeastern.
Still waiting from my dream school, University of Michigan.</p>
<p>I’m very average. I have an unweighted GPA of 3.42, 3.7 weighted. I have a 26 ACT and a 1700 SAT
I’ve been accepted to:
Indiana University Bloomington
University of Kansas
University of Alabama
University of Denver</p>
<p>I’m still waiting on:
University of Miami
TCU
SMU
USC
University of Washington
CU Boulder
Syracuse
UC (SB, SC, Davis)</p>
<p>Wish me luck!</p>
<p>im not 2013 but applied last year, i had 1840 and about a 3.3. I got into URI, UMASS, University at Buffalo, Oswego, St. John’s pharmacy, Ohio State, Binghamton (spring semester), and Stony Brook. I got somewhat of a scholarship from all schools except for the last 3.</p>
<p>I’m a mom from the Philly area who cannot believe how times have changed with the whole college application process. Back in the 1980s when we still had the 1600 SAT scale, a score of 1000 was considered outstanding and good enough to get you into a prestigious school like Villanova (my brother got in with that score and he was a B/C student!) Do you think those stats would have been acceptable to those Villanova admissions officers today? </p>
<p>So now my first born son is applying to colleges, and, silly me, I thought his 1130/1600 score was great! Then I found this site and discovered how wrong I was. I too saw the posts of overachievers who scored 2300 and that just wasn’t good enough. </p>
<p>His score is 1600/2400 (he actually scored 1700 on the collegeboard online test, but it’s too bad that doesn’t count!).<br>
3.8 GPA
Top 16th% in a class of nearly 700 students
All honors classes, some APs.
Eagle Scout (Community service, leadership)
Art club
Ultimate frisbee</p>
<p>Pretty average in 2012. But in the 1980s he’d be considered way above average. Oh well. I’m still proud as hell of him.</p>
<p>Schools applied to (for ART):
Temple – accepted
RIT --haven’t heart yet
Syracuse – haven’t heard yet
Cooper Union --haven’t heard yet</p>
<p>congratulations on all the great acceptances. I hope you guys understand you are actually above average, which is a term for the mean.</p>
<p>@careermom, they recentered the SATs. The higher scores now correspond to lower scores when we were applying, just fyi. ;)</p>
<p>poetgrl, are you saying they are looking at the SAT scores more on the 1600 scale than 2400? My son’s h.s. guidance counselor said many colleges don’t even pay attention to the writing score. Don’t know if that’s true or not.</p>
<p>What she means is that in 1995 the Collegeboard made it so the average score on the SAT for each section would be about a 500 since the average score had fallen to about a 424 per section owing to more people from disadvantaged backgrounds taking the SAT. [Recentered</a> SAT Yields Apples and Oranges | Heartlander Magazine](<a href=“http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2000/12/01/recentered-sat-yields-apples-and-oranges]Recentered”>http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2000/12/01/recentered-sat-yields-apples-and-oranges) </p>
<p>But yes, many colleges discount the writing score since they don’t have much data on it, and many colleges find the entire idea of the writing section relatively stupid. Here’s a relevant, ongoing thread on the matter: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1428275-does-anyone-else-think-college-essays-huge-farce.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1428275-does-anyone-else-think-college-essays-huge-farce.html</a></p>
<p>Amroy67 - Thanks for your reply. I have checked his UNH login but unless I am doing something wrong, where it says “Application status” it still says “complete-ready for review”. </p>
<p>I did hear from other people in our town that some people were getting phone calls from Roger Williams with acceptance news and that they started calling people Saturday evening. Well, we did get a call on Sunday evening from a 401 area code but since we didn’t recognize the number we did not take the call. Maybe that was his acceptance call from Roger Williams.</p>
<p>Mom of 3.0 GPA, 28 ACT student.
Accepted to Stetson (very generous merit!)
Deferred at University of Illinois Champaign
Waiting on:
DePauw University
Marquette
Miami of Ohio
Rollins
DePaul
Lake Forest</p>
<p>@CareerMom66:</p>
<p>Not to worry, your son is still well above average even in today’s standards. The fact is that average students just don’t post on CC. Even the students posting in this thread are NO WHERE NEAR average students. They are just average by CC standards or feel average because of what they read here.</p>
<p>Hint: If you get a merit scholarship, you are not an average student, you most likely rank in the top quartile (25%) of applicants at a given school if not higher (depending on how many merit scholarships they distribute).</p>
<p>The average students are the ones out there who are applying to thier IS public flagships and not wondering if they will get a scholarship, but are wondering if they’ll even get accepted. Perhaps some of those students are reading these threads and if so I hope they don’t get discouraged by people saying that their 3.8GPA and 1900 SAT score is average, it most definitely is not.</p>
<p>This may have been mentioned earlier in the thread, but even if so, it bears repeating:</p>
<p>from the college board site:</p>
<p>For the class of 2012, average scores are: </p>
<p>Critical reading:496
Mathematics: 514
Writing: 488</p>
<p>from act.org</p>
<p>average
composite 21.1
english 20.5
math 21.1
reading 21.3
science 20.9</p>
<p>Son got an acceptance email from the U. of Denver yesterday. </p>
<p>He’s also been accepted to UMBC (U. of Maryland Baltimore County), Monmouth U. (NJ).</p>
<p>@Jrcsmom: A bit of a correction. Most truly average students are not aiming for their state flagship, unless they live in a state like Wyoming. From my experience, if they want to go to a four year public school, they’re hoping to get into their local state directional, or in Californians’ cases, their local CSU.</p>
<p>Also, as I posted earlier, even those stats are somewhat inflated because they leave out the high numbers of students that either drop out, don’t go to college after graduation, or know they’re going to a CC so they don’t bother taking a standardized test. Most of these students come from more disadvantaged backgrounds, and would be expected to score well below average on standardized tests. The actual average ACT would probably be around a high 19, low 20 if every student, regardless of post high school goals were to take it. </p>
<p>If anyone’s curious here’s the score distribution for the ACT: [Score</a> Information | National Ranks for Test Scores and Composite Score | ACT Student](<a href=“ACT Test Scores | ACT Scoring | ACT”>ACT Test Scores | ACT Scoring | ACT) and SAT: <a href=“http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/research/SAT-Percentile-Ranks-2012.pdf[/url]”>http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/research/SAT-Percentile-Ranks-2012.pdf</a></p>
<p>Everyone who got their admission decision from University of the Pacific, how did you find out? My portal is saying that my file is ready to be reviewed…</p>
<p>@whenhen:</p>
<p>I’m from Indiana, so perhaps it qualifies as ‘a state like Wyoming’. :)</p>
<p>I know from my son’s small, rural high school a number of the truly average students apply to Indiana U (Bloomington), with fingers crossed.</p>
<p>The mid 50% SAT scores for IU were 1110-1290, ACT 25-30 in 2011, which fall just above the national averages, but 25% of the accepted students do fall below that range, so some of the students who are truly average or slightly above do get admitted.</p>
<p>But as I mentioned in my last post, most of the average students wind up at a school like Indiana State where the mid 50 for the ACT composite is 17-22 or at U of Southern Indiana where the range is 18-24. And at least the ones I know are all very happy with those choices.</p>
<p>And agreed if all students and not just college bound students took the tests the averages scores would be even lower (I would guess by several points).</p>
<p>I find it difficult to believe SAT scores in the low 500s/high 400s in each section is considered average. Not here in the suburbs of Philadelphia in my son’s high school. Most kids from his school get into PSU Main campus, and that school is a numbers school–your SAT score is what they care about, and they only accept students with scores in the mid to high 500s at the very least. And i always considred that school to be an average university. When did it become so elite, almost like an ivy? I think some people refer to it as a public ivy now. The truth of the matter is universities really are raising their standards and it’s difficult to find colleges who accept scores in the 400s or very low 500s.</p>