<p>Rad, did you visit Pitzer?</p>
<p>Hows your dd doing at Oberlin?</p>
<p>Daughter visited Pitzer, LOVED the campus, not too pleased w/air quality (coughing when on phone w/me during her visit ALOT), went to an advanced poetry class and said that was the clincherâŠnot a great classâŠshe ADORES Oberlin! everything about it.
I was very worried at first but she is in heaven, thanks for asking.</p>
<p>S: 3.59 GPA (uw), top 25% of a competitive public HS, 1850 SAT, pretty good ECs and leadership, 5 AP classes, lots of honors.</p>
<p>Accepted:
University of Maryland College Park (OOS, attending)
Old Dominion University (in-state, $$merit)</p>
<p>Waitlisted: RPI</p>
<p>Rejected:
Georgia Tech (OOS)
University of Texas (OOS)</p>
<p>Biggest lesson learned for me was that at Georgia Tech and Texas, OOS was a disadvantage (Hope scholarships in Georgia and the Top 10% placement in Texas) but for Maryland I think it was an advantage.</p>
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<p>No, itâs not a simple probability rule. At all.</p>
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<p>They donât âeat into your shareâ because each kid can only attend one school / take up one spot. It may mean more wait-list and summer melt, but the # of spots is what it is.</p>
<p>I am interested in more acceptance stories for this thread. My D is interested in Elon. Can someone who was accepted to Elon let me know their childs stats?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>S uw gpa around 3.5, weighted ?? but took a good # of APs. Definitely out of top 10%, NJ public school, closer to 20 %-ile. Very little effort was put into hs courses and was somewhat erratic (did better, for example, in APs like Computer Science (A,5) than Spanish 2 (B) or phys ed (Bâs))â and minimal preparation for SAT/ACT. </p>
<p>750 CR, 700 math, 33 ACT</p>
<p>Accepted:</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon
Johns Hopkins
BC- Honors</p>
<p>Ultimately chose between these three.</p>
<p>Also accepted: BU, Villanova, Rutgers, GW</p>
<p>Rejected: UPenn (legacy)</p>
<p>Has computer science degree from CMU with masters so all turned out well.</p>
<p>From our school 1550/2400 SAT and 19 ACT, 90 weighted GPA got in, and 1450 SAT 84 weighted GPA was waitlisted. But very few applications.</p>
<p>Based on Naviance data I have, 3.1-3.3, 1800-1900 seems to be a sweet spot for Elon. There were a surprising number of waitlists, though. Not sure if this means if Elon is looking for demonstrated interest or if these students had blips that were sufficiently worrisome to admissions.</p>
<p>Those with Naviance data on Elon, do you have info by gender? Elon has their Common Data set online. Most recent stats - they admitted 39.7% of women who applied, and 49% of male applicants. Unfortunately, itâs my D that wants to go thereâŠ</p>
<p>It doesnât break down that far, at least as far as public consumption goes â at schools where there are relatively few applicants, it would get personally identifiable pretty quickly.</p>
<p>Note that the Elon data I have is for my kidâs school â YMMV.</p>
<p>At our school many kids in that range apply to Elon and get admitted. It would make sense to apply if your DD is interested.</p>
<p>Naviance for Elon at our public HS in NJ suggests 3.2/1100 and above are not rejected-but a surprising number of the better SAT scores are waitlisted. Perhaps this is because they suspect they are being used as a safety and do not want their yield to drop by accepting kids who will not enroll?
They also seem to have much lower standards (200 SAT points) for ED</p>
<p>GPA 3.4; SAT 1490; 6APs-5 5s and a 4; Eagle Scout
Engineering</p>
<p>Accepted:
Rochester Institute of Technology (Attending with Merit Scholarship)
American University
Virginia Tech
NC State Univ</p>
<p>Rejected:
Cornell</p>
<p>Son attended a highly competitive private school that doesnât report GPA or class standing. He was a late bloomer. Not entirely sure he even knows his GPA or ever calculated it. Left to his own devices he would have applied only to his first choice (RIT). Mom and Dad insisted he apply to 5 colleges, at least one of which was in state and one was a reach.</p>
<p>After 1 week of classes we get a single cryptic email saying his AP tests gained him sophomore status, preferred parking, better meal plan and he juggled his schedule to get Fridayâs off. Oh yeah. Didnât realize how chilly it getâs here at night :)</p>
<p>This is a great thread. I still would like to hear any acceptance stories for your children in this GPA range. So please continue posting. This is so helpful. </p>
<p>Thanks to all for the information on Elon. My Naviance shows Elon with an acceptance average or SAT 1241/ GPA 3.46. However, my D goes to a small all girls school so we have few datapoints.</p>
<p>Child had around a 3.5 gpa (not sure if weighted or unweighted) and superscored a 760V and 640M. Only had a few honors classes. A few high powered extracurriculars. Got into state university honors program, BU and U of Chicago.</p>
<p>That is awesome!</p>
<p>What about a student with nearly a 3.7 weighted with more average SATs (610M, 520 V)? She did get 26 on ACT (which converts to about 1200) and just re-took on Sat. Approx top 10% How do adcoms look at this? (sheâs not a great test taker)</p>
<p>(She would love to get in to University of Maryland - OOS)</p>
<p>LINYMOM, your daughterâs situation is not unusual. Lots of kids get higher grades and lower test scores, as opposed to lower grades and higher test scores such as the kids weâre discussing in this thread. And her test scores are not even that low, more like slightly above-average. Sheâs on the low side for U of Maryland, but she could still get in, and sheâll definitely do fine somewhere.</p>
<p>My son had a gpa of 3.3 UW, 4.4 W, lots of APâs, 2140 SATs, one powerhouse EC and a few minor ones. Got into Wesleyan (where he is now a junior), Brandeis, Bard and UNC (in-state).</p>
<p>mantori.suzuki: Thanks for your post. She knows Maryland is a bit of a reach. </p>
<p>What about American? Or SUNY schools? Albany, Binghamton? Pretty sure Buffalo is a match (going to see it in November). Anyone have any insights?</p>