<p>We are looking at different universities for our daughter and wondering how high can she aim.</p>
<p>Her qualifications:</p>
<p>SAT 1 score: 2380
GPA: 3.7
Sports: part of softball team for her school
plays basketball on the local youth team and was selected for All stars last year
and has a good chance of being reselected this year
Clubs: Key club and model judiciary
Music: flute player</p>
<p>Any input would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>If she can get recruited by colleges for basketball, she can go almost anywhere. If not we’d need more info to say how high to shoot. Class rank, course vigor, state you’re from, ethnicity to start.</p>
<p>She is not college caliber Basketball player. Her ethnicity is Indian and she is from Fairfax county, Virginia. Her class ranking is in top 20s. Sorry I goofed up the original post. Thank you for replying.</p>
<p>Her sat score is awesome, her GPA is pretty good as well. Top 20 students or top 20 percent?
Does she have any idea what she wants to major in?</p>
<p>Her SAT score is awesome, and her GPA is pretty good. It might be a little low for the IVYs, but i think shed have an excellent shot at some top public universities.</p>
<p>your help is greatly appreciated. She plans to be a lawyer. She is planning to take SAT 2 in English, History and Math. Would that help to overcome her GPA. Does she have any chance in getting into Ivy league schools?</p>
<p>Her ECs are definitely her weakness. I’m assuming she’s a junior? If she is interested in Law she could convey this interest to the admissions team by trying to get a local lawyer/law firm to take her on over the summer through an unpaid internship. That would definitely make her stand out a little more. Does her school offer a mock trail club/team? Maybe she could try starting one up. All these things would look fantastic on her app, and at the utmost importance, seems like things she would enjoy. : )</p>
<p>she is in model judiciary and loves it. We are hoping this summer she could get an internship in Washington d,c.</p>
<p>Here are a few schools that you should look into purely based on gpa and sat.
William and Mary avg gpa: 4.0 avg. sat: 2015
James Madison University avg gpa: 3.74 avg sat: 1707
Vanderbilt University: avg gpa: 3.6 avg SAT: 2157
Carnegie Mellon avg gpa 3.6 avg Sat: 2090
Reach School but maybe have a chance:
Columbia University avg. gpa: 4.0 avg. Sat: 2180
Cornell University avg gpa: 4.0 avg SAT 2090</p>
<p>These are all great school and your daughter has a shot at all of them but you need to make a list of colleges before applying.
A school which are your “Dream School”
B Realistic schools
C Back up schools- this is really important a lot of students with a high gpa feel its beneath them to apply to their local state school but I know students with a 4.0+ who did not get in any where and now have to go to a community college.
Good Luck :)</p>
<p>Whether it’s top 20% or top 20 is indeed important to know.</p>
<p>Either way, she should apply to a couple of ivies but not count on them. Indian students with very high test scores from overrepresented states are present in great numbers in these schools. She will need a very high class rank (number one factor) and great ECs as well.</p>
<p>The good news is that a great SAT score can get you a lot. Tons of merit money at less highly selective schools, into honors programs and into many great colleges.</p>
<p>Money is not a problem. I am a physician and I am willing to pay all thru her college years. I would really like for her to get into an Ivy league school if she is qualified.</p>
<p>We need to know what the 3.7 means at her school. Most kids getting into any ivy who don’t have a hook are top 2 in their high school class. Lower at very competitive schools but generally within the top few percentile and almost never below top 10 percent.</p>
<p>A very high SAT alone does not go far at ivies.</p>
<p>Once you have the GPA and SATs they want, it becomes about the soft factors-activities outside of the classroom, awards and honors, recommendations, essays.</p>
<p>If she’s a junior, she might be able to raise her GPA by taking various AP courses next year. I know that my school gives a 4.2 for every 4.0 earned in an AP class. </p>
<p>And even if she can’t get it up, if she has some stellar recommendations, an amazing essay, and maybe a few more ECs, she might be Ivy material. :)</p>
<p>Coming from Fairfax County, VA, your daughter will have plenty of competition from applicants from the region including TJ (Thomas Jefferson) and an incredible number of strong public high schools as well as private prep schools. I agree with @fullofwonder that her EC’s, as listed, do not appear to be that strong. Volunteer positions? Leadership positions? I believe all the Ivies have need blind admissions so your ability to pay would not be considered in an admissions decision.</p>
<p>Her SAT score is terrific, but as Waverly mentioned a 3.7 GPA may (or may not) be strong depending upon the school and her curriculum. Is she taking mostly AP’s and honors, IB, or ??? She’s possibly Ivy material…but at the moment she does not seem to be distinguishable from the tens of thousands of other high school applicants who send in their forms in an attempt to gain undergraduate admission to the various Ivy schools.</p>
<p>Coming from Fairfax County, VA, your daughter will have plenty of competition from applicants from the region including TJ (Thomas Jefferson) and an incredible number of strong public high schools as well as private prep schools. I agree with @fullofwonder that her EC’s, as listed, do not appear to be that strong. Volunteer positions? Leadership positions? I believe all the Ivies have need blind admissions so your ability to pay would not be considered in an admissions decision.</p>
<p>Her SAT score is terrific, but as Waverly mentioned a 3.7 GPA may (or may not) be strong depending upon the school and her curriculum. Is she taking mostly AP’s and honors, IB, or ??? She’s possibly Ivy material…but at the moment she does not seem to be distinguishable from the tens of thousands of other undergraduate applicants who send in their forms for admission to the various Ivy schools.</p>
<p>Thank you all for such insightful input. She is from one of the top 100 schools in the country. She has volunteered in a Nursing Home every summer since she was in her 9th grade. She will most likely do an inernship on capitol hill this summer. As for her grades she is taking three AP courses this year and doing very well. If she can’t get into HYPS, Does she have a chance in other Ivies.</p>