<p>mathmom – 75% SAT scores? Median?</p>
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<p>Sorry, that’s much too straightforward and logical.<br>
My obtuse methodology is vastly superior due to its veil of complexity.
:)</p>
<p>CountingDown, it doesn’t matter because in fact there was never a tie after the first two columns, but since I’d typed in the 25-75% range both for Verbal and Math, I think it was actually 25% score for Verbal.</p>
<p>Sorry - I know this is off topic
LOL - Dad’o’2 & mathmom - finally someone that I can talk to.
I have a spreadsheet too and sort of use mathmom’s criteria. I color code the reach/maybe/likely schools. Right now I’m sorting geographic area by chance (since we are in visit mode). After visits - I move the definitely apply to’s; to the top of the sheet and the no’s to the way bottom. I’m in the process of creating a new sheet with the apply to’s and all the application criteria. It’s the only way I can remember which schools we have gone over (why they were or were not “good”).</p>
<p>Lol. I color code them to green=safety, yellow green, yellow, orange, red=reach. Then I sort the list various ways and see what happens. I’ve updated some data and now my colors are off any way I sort it!</p>
<p>I am CLEARLY not a math person. 
Mathmom, did you do a three layer sort, or just sort each category and see how each school fell on the individual criteria? Not that it’s changing the list at this stage – though there are a couple more likely schools I wish had survived the cut.</p>
<p>I love color coded spread sheets, but dont have formulas :)</p>
<p>S 2008 3.54UW (4 IB HL) school doesnt weight and 2070 SAT
accepted at Tufts, William and Mary, GWU, American, Northeastern, Ithaca
denied at Ivies</p>
<p>Along with that I also want to add that many (most we have visited this summer for S2) make a point that they compare students (grades) to other students from their High School. That to do otherwise would be like comparing apples to oranges. That they take grades in the context of the hs which was attended.</p>
<p>You are all too funny! I just had a list of schools with all the stats on the sheet and I sorted the schools by SAT scores. Little did I know what a simpleton I was.</p>
<p>Ummm…
I used the data in my color-coded excel spreadsheet to mail merge on to index cards (avery #5388). :o</p>
<p>Usually I do a three layer sort, but I enjoy playing with it. Sorting is one of the few things I actually know how to do on Excel. :)</p>
<p>Our son had a 3.65 overall (3.2 junior year), 2300 SAT 12 APS (AP National Scholar when applying), National Merit Scholar (semi when applying). No hooks, first generation, TASP
Senior year grades, blah with a C in IB Bio as final grade.
Was accepted to:
UVA (Jeff Scholar finalist, 2k)
Tulane (24k)
NYU (7.5k)
Brandeis
U South Cal (19k)
American (27k, nms, 2k)
WashU</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
Harvard (then extended waitlist, ultimately denied)
UChicago (ultimately cleared, declined)
JHU (declined waitlist)
Georgetown (then extended waitlist, ultimately denied)</p>
<p>Rejected:
Cornell
Princeton
Penn</p>
<p>When I said earlier that he had no “matches”, I meant that since his stats were so all over the place, his acceptances/denials were as well.</p>
<p>DT - Thanks for the stat. What was his ECs like? Where did he go?</p>
<p>DeirdreTours, forgive me if you’ve already posted this elsewhere, but what kind of high school did your son attend? His stats are very similar to my son’s, and the schools he’ll be applying to appear similar as well. Thank you.</p>
<p>Expatme and Deidre,
I’m hoping the 7 IB courses and 12 APs (National AP Scholar after junior year) count for something. There is some overlap on both your lists, esp. in S’s target range, so your Ss’ results are positive!</p>
<p>son had 3.4 GPA, 1890 SAT;
accepted: Furman, Sewanee, Rhodes, Elon, Trinity(San Antonio)
found ‘Fully Qualified but not selected’: West Point(USMA)</p>
<p>Happily attending Furman</p>
<p>His ecs were odd, but extensive (for way too much detail see the thread “Brilliant meets doens’t give a crap”). His TASP was UMich. His high school is a medium sized, mediocre public, but it is the only public school in our area that offers IB (graduating usually 2-3 full diploma candidates per year, this last year it had a bumber crop of 9). The school had generally very caring, but way overworked staff. School was also not up on college process outside of local schools. My son was a full diploma candidate when he applied (just received final marks qualifying him for IB diploma last month).</p>
<p>hubbellsdad - was that weighted or unweighted GPA?</p>
<p>weighted with many AP courses;</p>
<p>Hubbelsdad, how is Furman? I know you wrote that your son is happy there, but love to hear a bit more if thats ok.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>3.7 weighted GPA , 30 ACT composite with a 36 in Math, 740 SAT2 MAth, 690 Chemistry,
with a bunch of EC’s like Track, Science bowl team and key club.
applied for engineering</p>
<p>accepted
Penn state(attending)
UConn
University of Rochester
Lafayette College</p>
<p>Rejected
Cornell(ed)
georgia tech</p>