<p>Sometimes it helps to look at schools' Common Data Set (Google can find it for schools that publish it). Sections C7 to C12 show the profile of the last entering freshman class and what a school considers important for admittance, providing a first approximation of reach/match/safety for a prospie.</p>
<p>Thanks, vossron, will do that!</p>
<p>I'm not seeing the 3.2/1250 as all that dissonant. Am I the only one thinking that way?</p>
<p>Roger Williams is popular around here with B-type students and I'm not imagining that school, or others at similar levels of selectivity, being a problem for the OP son.</p>
<p>In my son's class (admittedly 3 years ago), 8 kids were accepted to RWms with GPA's ranging from 83-90 (at our hs, 93 is an A), unweighted. The highest of their SATs were around 1200/1600. Even allowing for toughening admissions environment this past year (and maybe next, maybe not?), I don't see him having an issue with his combination of GPA/SAT.</p>
<p>Me, I would worry about choosing safeties based on GPA because I just don't think the info is fine-tuned enough when you look at "average" GPA for accepted students and there is such ridiculous variation in how GPA's are calculated. I think you have to use the scores as well.</p>