<p>There is no one GPA cut off score to get into the ivies and other schools of their ilk. There are some schools where A’s are rare and others where the top 40 students all have 4.0s. There are academic magnets where some one who isn’t in the top 10% may be virtually as strong as one that is in the top 10%. You really have to know your school. Virtually no one in our school (big suburban public in a pretty good school district) has been accepted to Harvard with less than a 97 unweighted average and 1500+/1600 on the SATs and top 2% rank. </p>
<p>I left a very important “not” out of a sentence in my previous post. It should have read: Luckily there are lots of excellent schools who would be happy to accept this student - even if they are NOT part of a certain athletic league.</p>