Reality Check?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>My friend is asking for my advcie on college selections, but honestly i dont know whether his list of colleges is realistiic or not.</p>

<p>Stats: 3.3 GPA, 2170 SAT</p>

<p>List:
Cornell
Dartmouth
Rice
WUSTL
UCLA
Reed
UChicago
U Washington
uc san diego
U michigan</p>

<p>his extracurriculars are good but nothing spectacular. is it time for me to tell him that maybe he should start looking at some other colleges?</p>

<p>edit: also, it might be worth mentionin that our school doesn't weight gpas and about 3/4 of his classes since 9th grade have been honors or AP. would that help him at all?</p>

<p>thanks,
legion</p>

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<p>dartmouth, rice, wustl, cornell, ucla, uchicago, ....</p>

<p>... 3.3 gpa.</p>

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<p>Is he instate for any of those state schools? And also, tell him to find a safety school.</p>

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<p>If he's in-state for any of the publics, they might be high matches; otherwise, every single school is a reach. I ditto Bgibbs.</p>

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<p>bump 10char</p>

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<p>Having UCSD and Chicago on the same list is a bit... surreal? </p>

<p>What are his ec's? Personal distinctions? His lists looks like quite a stretch.</p>

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<p>Those are all reaches.</p>

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<p>Isn't a 3.3 a low A?</p>

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<p>^ Lol. A 3.3 amounts to making twice as many Bs as As.</p>

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<p>3.3 is a low gpa for those schools. his sat scores are pretty good, but for ivies it's usually better to have a 2200+ It might be able to tell him to have so me safety schools. I have a friend who's the same way, low freshman and sophomore gpa and a 1790 SAT score. But he's still convinced he's going to get in NYU and Colombia...</p>

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<p>wow 3.3 gpa plus that killer SAT score wont get you in at Rice.</p>