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<p>I haven’t found a good list/ranking based on GPA. I’m not sure it would be too useful. Some selective schools apparently don’t report it to USNWR (examples: Dartmouth, Williams, Northwestern). Some report an average, but not a 25th-75th percentile range (ex: Vanderbilt, Chicago). Some report both a very high average and a very narrow range (e.g. for UPenn and Princeton, the average is 3.9 and the range is 3.9-4). Does Chicago’s 4.0 average really represent a higher standard than Princeton’s 3.9? It’s hard to say, since they might be calculating GPA differently or their applicant pools might have different characteristics (public v. private, etc.) Maybe Princeton really is slightly more forgiving on GPA but much more demanding for ECs.</p>

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<p>Unless you’ve done something absolutely extraordinary in your lifetime, your chances of getting into Tufts with those stats are extremely low.</p>

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<p>tk, all adcoms in all top schools would evaluate the applicant’s HS GPA. I have not heard of any school that doesn’t. So, GPA is obviously important when one is looking at the selectivity level of the school. An applicant with a 2300 SATs would hardly (or maybe even wouldn’t) get into Harvard or Stanford or Yale with a HS GPA of 3.2 or a flunk in one of his HS subjects.</p>

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<p>^ I don’t deny that GPA is important, I’m just saying I haven’t found a good (recent, comprehensive) list of schools ranked for selectivity by GPA. One could construct such a list from available data on the USNWR site and individual CDS files … but again, I’m not sure it would add enough to the score and admit rate data to be worth the effort (given the issues of missing data and presumably varied approaches to averaging the numbers).</p>

<p>Many colleges well below the top 10 report rather high average GPAs. For the USNWR top 75 or so, this number doesn’t appear to me to be a very good discriminator. Below are some examples.</p>

<p>Princeton (#1 National University), 3.9, 3.9-4
UPenn (#8 NU), 3.9, 3.9-4
JHU (#13 NU), 3.7, N/A
Emory (#20 NU), 3.8, 3.7-4
CMU (#23 NU)), 3.6, 3.5-3.9
Michigan, (#29 NU), 3.8, 3.7-3.9
Wisconsin (#41 NU ),3.7, 3.6-3.9
UMCP (#58 NU), 4.0, 3.7-4
American (#77 NU), 3.8, N/A</p>

<p>Williams (#1 National LAC), N/A, N/A
Pomona (#4 NL), N/A, N/A
Davidson (#12 NL), 4.0, 3.8-4
Grinnell (#22 NL), N/A, N/A
Oberlin (#26 NL), 3.6, N/A
Whitman (#43 NL), 3.8, 3.7-4
Beloit (#63 NL), 3.5, 3.2-3.8
Agnes Scott (#75 NL), 3.7, 3.5-3.9</p>

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<p>^^^ It did appear as helpful as it should have been, because we don’t have enough figures. But it would have been interesting to see a list of schools ranked by GPA so we can see which schools emphasize more on which area – whether GPA or SATs.</p>

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<p>do you think i could get into to tufts ED with like a 3.7 weighted gpa and a high 1800’s for the sat’s? if not, do you think i could get into emory ED?</p>

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<p>No on the Tufts ED with those stats.</p>

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<p>what about emory ed?</p>

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<p>Most likely no.</p>

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<p>The only way to know for sure is to apply.</p>

<p>The Tufts overall admit rate and the RD-only admit rate are nearly identical (~22%), so I doubt you’d get a big admission boost just for applying ED.</p>