<p>We're starting to look at colleges and she was talking about an Ivy but am trying to focus on colleges that will be a match for her. </p>
<p>She is a sophomore, she has a 90 GPA (last year and last semester also 90) and is in the top 40% of her class.
She is taking three honors courses and is on two extra curricular teams. </p>
<p>What would be a good group of school for us to focus on?</p>
<p>The only thing I came up with was categorizing by schools that accept a certain percentage of their applicants and thought maybe I should focus on 15% or 25% or 40%. That group of schools.</p>
<p>Please let me know which category, -or if you have a category defined in a different way. We are going to visit schools and I want to visit ones that she can get accepted into. </p>
<p>After April 1, try showing her the student stats on "Accepted" and "Rejected" threads in the "Colleges" section of CC. Especially for the ivies, it is a shower of ice-cold water.</p>
<p>What I'm planning on doing is going on tours of colleges that are good matches for her. I just need to find someone on here who can help me figure out what that is.</p>
<p>For ivies she ought to be well into top 10%.</p>
<p>She needs scores from standardized testing to go along with the transcript to paint a clearer picture of where she stands academically. </p>
<p>As important as stats, she needs to think about her preferences so you don't waste a lot of time> city campus vs rural, large vs small, private vs public, near vs far ---and what colleges have strong departments in her particular areas of interest, if she knows that yet.</p>
<p>That's a good point. It sounds to me so far like she would do well with a nice liberal arts college. All the professional careers she talks about (law, psychology) need advanced degrees anyway.</p>