<p>For fun:</p>
<p>Wondering...
knowing your hs GPA and SATs (and ECs) from yesteryear..</p>
<p>Today, Could you get into your college/university?</p>
<p>Today, Could you get into your DCs college/university?</p>
<p>I think I could pretty much get into my university (not sure about DH) ...
but neither of us would be candidates for the schools DS is looking at...hummm</p>
<p>Yes, I could get into my no-big-deal, directional state school.</p>
<p>I could get into some of the schools ds is looking at and would be an auto-admit to one school where he isn’t. 
But for the most part, no.</p>
<p>I could get into all, but none all that selective. If you were top 20% or so could get into H’s, top 10% you could get into mine, top 5% or so auto admit for S1, and breathing auto admit for S2. All big publics into GPA more than SAT. I was number three in my high school class (and breathing).</p>
<p>Probably not. Academically fine, but not the high level EC’s that are necessary these days. In my day, you just had to have enough EC’s to prove that you could play well with others – school clubs and the like.</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>Of course I have considerable life accomplishments that if added in…</p>
<p>My mom went to the University of Michigan. Varsity cheerleader with a 3.3 GPA.</p>
<p>So no way could she get in today – which she often jokes about.</p>
<p>I’m thinking I likely could get into my alma mater, with the caveat that we had no AP classes at my HS back then. So, presuming (as I think I was then) back in the day that I was saavy enough to understand how AP classes fit into the rigor/competitive mix, it would be fine.</p>
<p>Most professors I know at an Ivy and a top 10 say they couldn’t have gotten in as students even back then, let alone now.</p>
<p>Realistically, maybe. I went to one of those single-initial places with a single-digit admission rate, so there’s no question I would be feeling a lot more stress and doubt than I felt back then. I would still be a legit candidate for admission, but I would be spending a lot of time thinking about safeties and match schools, too, and EA/ED strategies, etc. (My “safety” back then was also a single-initial college where I had legacy status, and I don’t think ED or EA existed.)</p>
<p>I would probably be accepted to my children’s college (although it is getting way more selective, too). I was (and remain) its kind of guy. I thought about applying back then, and would almost certainly apply if I were going through it today.</p>
<p>I would definitely get into my state school alma mater. As for where my dd is applying, nope. DD’s scores are much higher. Back then we didn’t study for SATs and ACTs. I’ve got a small mint invested in Princeton Review ;)</p>
<p>well, i think the SAT has changed enough that our old scores aren’t really comparable to today’s scores, so i think it would be hard to tell.</p>
<p>my DD’s SAT is a lot higher than my SAT was, but i don’t think she is that much smarter than i am/was.</p>
<p>it was a lot easier back then, i think. i don’t even know what percent i was in HS or what my GPA was. </p>
<p>i got into UT and A&M then. only applied to those two. pretty sure i wouldn’t get into UT now. maybe A&M.</p>
<p>Took my kids to my top 10 alma mater for an info session/tour a couple years ago. Walked out of the info session and one of them said “Mom, how did YOU get in here??”.</p>
<p>Probably would not get in today…</p>
<p>Definitely- good flagship U. They rescored both the ACT and SAT, would get in even without rescoring or taking more than once. Also would have applied to private schools now since the need based admissions have changed, as well as the gender issues. Hey- if I were in HS this decade I could have taken AP classes. As a woman I would have faced far less gender discrimination and hassles. I do know of many dorm floor women who never would have gotten in to UW- back then they talked about a shakedown, where many started and didn’t finish there. Plus there were many more men than women. Now they talk about entering as a transfer student. There were no girls’ sports in my day either.</p>
<p>My son’s scores were much higher than mine but he’s a lot smarter than I was at that age. He’s a lot smarter than I am now in a bunch of areas and I think that’s just raw brain horsepower. He had the advantage of two parents though. I grew up in a poor single-parent family with no help from parents on schooling or college preparation.</p>
<p>Probably, but I don’t know for sure. I went to UCSD and back then it was basically a safety because if you were in the top 12.5% of the state you could pretty much pick a UC. My SATs would still be above the 75%ile but I can’t remember my GPA or rank exactly.</p>
<p>Yes, realistically I could get into all the schools I had applied to all things being equal. My ECs were extensive and relatively unusual at the time and would be worth “more” today than they were then and I played a (collegiate sport to boot). I could statistically (SAt/ACT/GPA/Rank) get in to any school today with the application I had then whether I would or not is unknown, but statistically I fit “today’s” selective criteria. My kids? No.</p>
<p>interesting question as i was going through some old papers and found a lot of HS and college application stuff from back in the day that my mom had sent me, including old college acceptance letters, HS report cards, and SAT reports. </p>
<p>SAT scores back then also listed your percentile standing and i was shocked (honestly) to see that mine in Verb and Math were 99th and 98th percentiles. Gee, i don’t ever remember feeling like i was THAT smart! My report card was basically B, B+ stuff, and we didnt have any APs. My ECs were focused, but also pretty mundane and certainly not of regional or national significance. Would that have gotten me today into the top univ I attended? maybe still so. from what i understand, there are still few black teenagers with very high SAT scores.</p>
<p>I was top 5% of my class, but my SATs were not great because I only took it once, back then as Asian was still considered as an URM at a LAC, so I think that was my hook.</p>
<p>Nope. I went to an Ivy back when its admission rate was 25%. I had excellent SAT and AP scores and a decent GPA, but no ECs at all. D goes to a different Ivy, and there’s even less likelihood I’d get in there.</p>
<p>I think my alma mater was a match for me back in the old days and probably more of a reach today.</p>