<p>My cousin was accepted to Georgetown but he wanted to go to one of the top Ivy leagues so his consuler said for him to go to the University of Deleware and work hard. What type of GPA should he maintain in order to get into Brown or Darthmouth and what can be an impressive SAT score?</p>
<p>Same situation here! Well, I'm not necessarily looking into Ivy League, but good schools nonetheless (Emory, UVA) or maybe UPenn. So yeah, I'm interested in the answer to this question too. I'm guessing you need pretty close to a 4.0 in college though...and gah, at least with my schedule (2 chem classes with lab and then discussion (???), calc, french totaling 25 hours) it might not be as easy as I had predicted. Who's your cousin and what's his major?</p>
<p>Do the best you can. However, I would argue that once you go to Delaware - most people don't want to leave - you're in college, you've already established a great social network and are 1/4 done college. I had a friend that was WL'd at Dart and accepted to G'Town and Delaware and she came to Delaware hoping to transfer to Dart. Nonetheless, once she got to campus and found out that Delaware was a great school and had a lot to offer, she didn't apply to transfer. </p>
<p>And now, she is starting her senior year in Chemical Engineering. :O)</p>
<p>My advice is do your best and enjoy your time where ever you go - give every place a chance. Taking the blinders off and seeing that you can get a GREAT education without going to highly selective school for undergrad can really work wonders. It also saves a whole chunk of money considering UD out-of-state tuition is just $16,500 as opposed to other schools where tuition is cresting at nearly twice that at $30,000. </p>
<p>Best</p>
<p>I agree with Mark. See if you like it first at Delaware.</p>