<p>Practically every post I read, everyone has 4.0 unweighted GPAs and I am wondering about where the student with 3.2-3.5 unweighted GPAs are being accepted. Please respond with GPA (weighted and unweighted) and college acceptances. Thank you!</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1562918-updated-list-schools-auto-admit-guaranteed-admission-criteria.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1562918-updated-list-schools-auto-admit-guaranteed-admission-criteria.html</a> lists a number of schools where a 3.2 HS GPA student is likely to be an automatic admit (however, test scores and high school course selection often matter).</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1348012-automatic-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships-20.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1348012-automatic-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships-20.html</a> lists some that will throw money at some such students (again depending on test scores and high school course selection).</p>
<p>There is a whole thread about B students also, and colleges that accepted them. </p>
<p>UCBA is great at linking threads. I’m sure he knows which thread I mean! It’s called “where did your 3.0-3.3 gpa child get in” or something like that!</p>
<p>There is one for 3.6 kids, too and one about 3.5 kids. Just be aware that many high schools weight the GPAs so it’s good to know what the unweighted AND weighted GPA is. You’ll see this in the 3.6 thread. A 3.6 weighted GPA can be quite different from a 3.6 unweighted. Common Data Set reports mostly unweighted.</p>
<p>P.S. are finances a consideration? On another thread, you have listed public universities from several different states as possibilities for your son. if finances are a consideration, it is important to remember that most public universities do NOT meet full need, and MOST do not give much aid to OOS students.</p>
<p>Thank you! My son has a 3.5 unweighted and 4.5 weighted GPA. He really wants to go to NC State, but seeing all of the posts with kids who have unweighted GPA of 4.0 is worrisome. Finances are not too much of a consideration. The other universities he would like to attend are Clemson, Virginia Tech or Georgia Tech, but NC State being #1 choice. He is active in church, involved in FBLA (on the board), TSA, French Honors Society, Teen Council and runs track and cross country. He has taken all Honors and AP classes throughout high school. Does anyone know of anyone who has gotten into NC State with his stats? Also, thank you for the info on the other threads. I will check them out ASAP.</p>
<p>He should be alright, but it also depends on his major too. A neighbor of mine got into Virginia Tech with stats lower than these, but it was for animal science and not for a really competitive engineering major</p>
<p>Jashton…are you instate or OOS for these schools. Some schools have more lenient admission requirements for instate students…or must admit a certain %age of their class as instate students. For these, it is MUCH harder for OOS students to gain admission. I dont know if NC State has this, but UNC-CH does! Some colleges don’t have this requirement.</p>
<p>Also, has this kiddo taken the SAT or ACT tests yet? This is also used by the admissions folks. It is NOT just GPA (and the strength of your course load).</p>
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<p>It looks like individual colleges choose what kind of GPA to report in the CDS. Some report >4.0 GPAs, indicating use of weighted GPAs (probably recalculated by the college, not weighted by the high school, since high schools use all different kinds of weighting systems).</p>
<p>SAT/ACT scores can be more important than GPA depending on the school. Do you have any standardized test scores(PSAT/PLAN) to have an idea where your son scores? Not clear if he’s a senior this year.</p>
<p>My son’s unweighted GPA: 3.4. Weighted: 3.5. (through 1Q sr. year) Not a lot of honors/AP until Senior year. Strong ACT score of 30, after about 8 hours of one on one tutoring.</p>
<p>Accepted thus far to:
Xavier (merit)
Purdue - Engineering
University of Dayton (merit info not disclosed yet, possible.)
Loyola University Maryland (merit)
Fairfield University (merit)
Quinnipiac University (merit)</p>
<p>Note the trend; all but one are private schools, but offered significant enough merit to make the difference between their cost and an out of state public school negligible.</p>
<p>If your child is a junior, my best advice is to pull out all the stops and get their test scores up up up. I’m convinced the test scores are why my son has been offered so much merit $, because he brings up the averages (and is mostly over the 75th%) for the schools he applied to. I spent about $1000 on a tutor and it will pay off with $50k+ in scholarship money… a great investment imo.</p>
<p>There’s a poster on CC (PackMom) whose son graduated from NC State - hopefully she can chime in here with some insight into NCSU. It’s been a while since I looked at admit rates for NC schools - does your child’s high school have Naviance?</p>
<p>You can look up acceptances for variance stat ranges in your HS using Naviance or for a wider pool of self reported data on Parchment. Naviance for the HS I attended in upstate NY shows an interesting pattern of admissions often being dictated by self selection, rather than stats. For example, being in upstate NY, RPI is a popular choice with a good sample size of applicants. About half of B+ students who applied were accepted to RPI, which seems like decent odds. Nevertheless, hardly any applied. Instead nearly all applicants had an A- average or higher. RIT had a >90% acceptance rate for B+ students and showed a similar pattern with the application rate dropping down to near zero for B students, even though most of the B students that did apply were accepted. All highly selective colleges I checked had no B+ applicants listed in Naviance except for Cornell, which averaged less than 1 per year.</p>
<p>Here is your link to 3.0 - 3.3 class of 2014.
There is also a thread for 2015.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/class-20xx-community/1469626-parents-hs-class-2014-3-0-3-3-gpa.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/class-20xx-community/1469626-parents-hs-class-2014-3-0-3-3-gpa.html</a></p>
<p>And yes, there is also a thread called “where did your 3.0 - 3.3 child get in” or something like that.</p>
<p>Thank you guys so much! He will take the SAT this weekend and the ACT Feb 8, I believe. He did ok on the PSAT, I think he could definitely do better. I cannot remember his scores offhand but around 580 W; 610 M; 600 CR. But he omitted too many at the end of each section. He said he took too long and ran out of time. (He is a slow test taker!) All of his omissions were at the end of the sections. I heard you can omit some but that too many omissions can hurt as well. We are in state for NC. I will definitely check out the post for class of 2014. Thx! ***One more question. Can my son qualify for first generation if I only have my associates and his dad died while in college so he did not finish his bachelors? And if he can apply first generation, does that really help or do you think it does not make a difference? Thanks for any thoughts as I am new to all of this!:)</p>
<p>I tried Naviance, but our school is not on there. I will email his councelor next week and inquire about it. That sounds like a great tool! I had not heard of it until now.</p>
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<p>He can skip questions and come back to them later within the same section (but not after the time limit for the section has been called). Doing quick questions first can reduce the number of questions he does not get to because he ran out of time. The reading passage questions tend to be among the more time consuming ones.</p>
<p>Additionally, guessing after eliminating one incorrect answer has a positive expected value compared to leaving it blank. Math questions can sometimes be solved more quickly by plugging the answers back in instead of solving the usual way.</p>
<p>He should try practicing on some real released old SATs.</p>
<p>Posting to agree with ucbalumnus–practice, practice, practice is SO important for a student who is a slow test taker. There are only so many different types of questions on the SAT, so that if he completes MANY practice tests, he will gain familiarity with the format and be able to move through the exam more quickly. Given that he omitted many questions, this PSAT scores are respectable.</p>
<p>While he may consider it cruel punishment, see if you can get him to sit down and knock out a full-length timed practice test each weekend. Since he has two more days of this long weekend, he should definitely complete one tomorrow or Monday before Sat’s exam.</p>
<p>For reading it can help to read the questions before you read the passage.</p>
<p>What mathmom said. </p>
<p>Also, to research any given school, google that school name and “common data set”, which should get you to the admission data for that school.</p>
<p>Or, easier still, look up the school’s profile on <a href=“http://bigfuture.collegeboard.org%5B/url%5D”>http://bigfuture.collegeboard.org</a>.
I’d expect that the collegeboard obtains its data from the CDSs, tho’ I don’t know this.</p>