<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>