<p>Being in the bottom 30% isn’t a cause for alarm, just a cause to realize that HYP isn’t a high likelihood without a hook, although HYP isn’t a high likelihood for anyone, and probably won’t be at a local school either, although that shouldn’t keep anyone from trying and applying. Just be sure that the college list is a balanced one. </p>
<p>Being in the bottom 30% should be an impetus to realize that there are wonderful colleges out there that are not Ivies yet provide a wonderful academic foundation and, sometimes, medical school acceptance rates at or better than the Ivies.</p>
<p>Haha. I guess mhmm has the right answer. Being chased by a lion, THEN getting a grammar lesson (if I survived, which I probably wouldn’t since I spend more time on CC THAN exercising) would be double punishment. With the grammar lesson, I might get a headache but THEN I can take some aspirin.</p>
<p>It is clear to me now doschicos and pulsar both work for the treasure departments, one for a private school and the other for a local public school.</p>
<p>It’s hard to know why a student went to Stonehill. Maybe they got rejected from other schools they applied to and that was their only option but maybe there are other reasons that you can’t find in the data. Maybe a parent works there and they get free tuition. Maybe they got a full scholarship and it makes the most financial sense for their family. Maybe they have a sick family member and want to stay close to home. Who knows? </p>
<p>I do know of one young woman who attended one of the top BS and chose to go to a decent yet mediocre state university although she was a top student and could have easily gone to much higher ranked colleges. It was the best place to be in the country for her sport and she is world class material. Just an example of the fact that there are stories and people behind decisions that you might not realize.</p>
<p>On a serious note - you have to balance the college issue - Ivys actively wanting to court and accept kids who did not have a lot of academic opportunities, and actively not wanting upper middle class kids, versus the Boarding Schools’ connections with colleges and their abilities to pull a rabbit out of a hat and getting a middle student into a college an average A student at a public would get into - with an issue of a great quality of life at a BS and potential hazard of going into a ps where everyone has already made friends/formed group/etc.</p>
<p>ok on the two threads Ive been thinking all along that pulsar has been making up a college, but now actually just looked it up. What if a student wanted a Catholic education, looking to go to Med School, got tremendous merit scholarship (which is quite possible after Andover)? Then Stonehill makes sense.</p>
<p>hootoo - You are lucky to go to what sounds like a decent public school. Unfortunately, many of us are not as fortunate as you to have that option at hand.</p>
<p>Pulsar, you are so, so, so wrong. You honestly think 30% of Andover’s senior class is “going nowhere fast?” Following the stats provided by boardingschoolreview ([Phillips</a> Academy Andover - Andover, Massachusetts/MA - Boarding School Profile](<a href=“http://www.boardingschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/5]Phillips”>Phillips Academy Andover (2023 Profile) - Andover, MA)) you’ll see that even those in the bottom 25th percentile of Andover’s senior class score around 2000 on the SAT. That, my friend, is a full 500 points above the national average. We may be talking about kids that are below the Andover average, but they are still well above the national average and, once again, colleges know this. I’ve told you to do it before, so this is probably futile, but I urge you to look once again at Andover’s college matriculations - how many kids there went “nowhere fast”?</p>
<p>Additionally, I have to point out that there’s quite a bit of hypocrisy coming out of you… You’re headed to Hotchkiss, right? How you can bash Andover’s stats when they’re markedly more impressive than Hotchkiss’s in every way is completely beyond me. It really is. Anyway…</p>
<p>The OP is asking what to do with a 4/6 GPA at Andover, not asking for a comparison between Hotchkiss and Andover. I think you shouldn’t say things like it will be the end of the world to change the OP’s setting. Given the set of schools faced with a 4/6 GPA at Andover, it will be a reasonable solution to move the setting to a public/local school. This happens all the time. BS is not for everyone. If someone in this setting is struggling, you shouldn’t advise them to stay in a bad situation assuring that it will be all fine and dandy in the end. The OP wants to target IVY from a PS/LS, not stay at Andover and be faced with pretty low tier colleges based on the data you provided. Remember after all these kids are at the top of their local schools before they came to Andover. Basically don’t let your enthusiam of Andover take over and prevent you from giving a sound advice. To put it in perspective, 200 kids in Andover, some millions of kids in PS, they are all making good citizens and having productive careers. Don’t make it sound like Andover is the end of the world as we know it. Right now our country is run by someone who didn’t go to Andover and he is doing a fine job, thank you.</p>
<p>The child of a family that we know is coming home to the local school from PA this September. The family realized that the child is struggling in the BS environment and needed a change. These things can happen due to homesickness, lack of adult supervision, sink or swim school environment and other reasons. So, to the OP, it happens, but I don’t know how often.</p>
<p>It would serve you, as well as many middle school-aged CC users, to cease bashing colleges and educational institutions you know nothing about. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with attending a college that doesn’t have the same name recognition as the Ivies. Not everyone can be academically extraordinary; there needs to be a middle ground and, as it stands, Stonehill doesn’t deserve your mockery. CC users have the tendency to come across as immature and elitist with this type of behavior. To your credit, I’d like to believe that you don’t want that.</p>
