<p>Calling all parents who have been through the cycle of the dreaded college application - help for those with less than perfect GPA kids.</p>
<p>Admission process takes months and the waiting is going to be rough, we don't even have a clean college list as yet! Hence my thought of starting this thread to give other parents in similar situation a hope and a clear trend to where other kids have gotten admissions.</p>
<p>If you do not mind sharing the GPA and SAT stats please state them. </p>
<p>I am a mom of rising senior son, hence this thread. He has 3.3 uw GPA and 2100 SAT. He is looking to major in Comp Sc (Software), a down to earth kid, would have loved the Stanford/Rice kind of environment with down to earth student body and pleasant weather. Thanks!</p>
<p>my 3.5 uw/3.7 weighted D with the 26 ACT composite was accepted into the following:</p>
<p>UC Santa Cruz
Univeristy of Portland (OR)
Linfield College (OR)
Trinity University (TX) give this one a look see for sure as it seems to mee the atmosphere and climate criteria
Cal State University Monterey Bay
Carroll College (MT)</p>
<p>and is attending Saint Mary’s College of California</p>
<p>denied at UCDavis and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo</p>
<p>Yes Trinity U is on our radar. We were unsure about Cal Poly Slo because it may have been too technical? Even tho son has a passion for software, he enjoys spending time with non-tech kids a lot more and looks like it may be tough to get in there anyways.</p>
<p>Our school counselor has suggested RPI, but I have not looked into it as yet. He would not want to go to a very very cold place.</p>
<p>DD- 1230 CR/Math SAT, 3.8 weighted GPA (3.3 unweighted). Accepted to U of San Diego, U of South Carolina (with a McKissick Scholarship), Santa Clara University, and Salve Regina. Rejected at Davidson (no surprise there!!). Attending Santa Clara University.</p>
<p>DS 1370 CR/Math. 3.2 uw GPA (school didn’t do the weighted GPA’s correctly that year…another whole story). BUT he was a music performance major and had his audition as a criteria too.
Accepted to Duquesne, Hartt School, Peabody Conservatory, Boston University, New England Conservatory, U of North Texas. Not admitted academically to UMDCP (not sure what THAT was all about!!). Attended Boston University.</p>
<p>3.55 UW (school doesn’t do weighted)
1530 CR/M
2230 CR/M/W</p>
<p>Applied ED to Vassar and accepted.</p>
<p>I think the stats can be misleading. In my daughter’s case, she has a pretty serious music commitment to a URI (under represented instrument). Not good enough to go to Conservatory but played with a very good youth orchestra through high school. </p>
<p>Accepted to Univ. of Florida (attended on full ride - nmf scholarship)
Univ. of Texas - nmf scholarship only 4000 approx
Fordham University - 20000
Tulane - 20000
Santa Clara - 20000
Loyola (New Orleans) - full ride</p>
<p>No rejections.</p>
<p>Jesuit highschool that didn’t rank, but I’d guess it was around 30%.</p>
<p>My D (2009 grad) graduated with a 3.6 weighted avg and a 25 ACT.
She got into:</p>
<p>The Ohio State University, Columbus (will attend)
Indiana University
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Arizona State University
SUNY New Paltz
SUNY Oneonta</p>
<p>PCP–ECs decent, other test scores very good:</p>
<p>FIRST Robotics, Eagle Scout; 4’s and 5’s and one 3; 740,760,780</p>
<p>Didn’t really expect him to get into JHU. I’m thinking the waitlist was a double-legacy courtesy to his alumni parents. Maybe that would have helped more if he had applied ED, but it wasn’t his first choice. </p>
<p>Not sure there are many “match” schools for kids with very high scores but merely good grades. Most schools seem like they are either high-prob based on the test scores or low-prob base on the grades. You don’t see many of those points on the Naviance charts to know how they fare.</p>
<p>Repeating the process now with a D, scores not as high. Not aiming for JHU/CMU/MIT this go-around! </p>
<p>Repeat after me: “Build the list from the bottom up.”</p>
<p>I think dad’o2 is right in that there are not “matches” for split performance kids (high scores/low gpa’s, esp). My kid’s results were ALL OVER THE PLACE-- totally unpredictable. The best aproach seems to be to apply widely, but don’t get too attached to any particular school!</p>
<p>D, Class of 2009, large Public HS
GPA 3.47
ACT composite 27</p>
<p>Accepted to all schools she applied to:</p>
<p>Drew Univ.
Goucher College
Fordham
Loyola Univ. at Maryland
George Mason Univ.
Roanoke College
Univ. of Vermont
Saint Michael’s College (Vermont) – attending</p>
<p>D graduated '07, 3.5 GPA, rigorous course load but school does not weight, 2100 SAT, accepted UW (Seattle), UVM, CU Boulder, rejected at lots of NE ivies/LACs.</p>