<p>Maybe someone got this thread mixed up with the bragging thread.</p>
<p>Never mind.</p>
<p>i really think there needs to be a “like” button!</p>
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<p>I pick…C!!</p>
<p>And unless you ARE an adcom…you do not know whether 40 points more on the SAT is significant for an applicant or not.</p>
<p>OK folks, let’s give it a rest. People are belaboring the point. A 2140 is not that far out of the OP’s initial request.</p>
<p>Uh oh… the thread police are patrolling…</p>
<p>Laughter is the best medicine, especially at stressful college admission times.</p>
<p>My daughter, an international student, who did all whole school years in French, within the French system, one of the most difficult in the world, got 1950 in her SAT. She is an A+ student, fluent in three languages, in addition to latin! She did get in Tufts, NYU, Boston U (with scholarship), Trinity College and GWU (scholarship too!), waitlisted at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins, denied at Penn. All what they say about SAT scores not being the most important part of the application is wrong. All Ivies expect 2200 and more. Too bad for them, they lose potential and gain attitude!</p>
<p>Keep the laughter! Just make sure it’s not at someone else’s expense.</p>
<p>In 2006, my DD got accepted to Santa Clara University, University of South Carolina (with a McKissick Scholarship), University of San Diego. Her SAT scores were barely 1950. However, it should be noted that she applied very early to ALL of these schools…EA to USD and SCU, and application done to South Carolina by October 15. Both USD and SCU accept a larger %age of students in the EA round.</p>
<p>SAT: 2030
ACT: 32
GPA: 3.9 UW most challenging course load
Rank: top 11%
light on ECs but they show breadth of interests and commitment to diversity</p>
<p>Accepted: Western Washington U Honors (6K merit), University of Rochester (13K merit)(double legacy), University of Washington Honors
Rejected: Tufts and Cornell</p>
<p>Likely to attend UW Honors unless UR FinAid is surprising</p>
<p>After reading through this thread I realize my kid needs to put more schools on her list. She’s a JR and she came home from BS with a list of schools that she and her advisor put together.
We are from NY. She’s a B student, 1900ish SAT, 29 ACT & Impressive ECs,IB program. She’s on the swim team and played field hockey but will not be a recruit.
We just came back from touring Claremont, Occidental,UCLA,Pepperdine and USD.
She also wants NYU, Fordham and U Miami.
I think some of these schools are out of her range. Does it help a lot that we will be full pay?
She is interested in American Lit and film.
Can someone suggest other schools? PMs are welcome.
Sorry OP, don’t want to highjack the thread but I feel like I’m in the same boat as you.</p>
<p>I live in Florida and we know many people whose children have gone to U of Miami. I can tell you this, if you are a full pay, I bet they will let you in. My daughter was in shock that a girl on her crew team got in to Miami last year, she was a B student at best with not the greatest SAT scores, but she got in. Her parents had money, made more than $300,000 a year. She ended up not going because her parents where FURIOUS that they would not give her daughter any sort of merit aid and they refused to help her at all. It was a shame that her parents wouldn’t help her, she wanted to study marine biology and Miami was her dream school. We know of a few other people with kids that didn’t have the greatest grades of SAT’s and still got in there too, because their parents had money. Now they were not awful students, but they did not have the grades and scores that Miami claims that you need to have. That’s pretty much the talk around her about Miami. Great school, and our favorite college football team…go Hurricanes!</p>
<p>My daughter graduated from high school back in 2008, but maybe this will help someone: NYU Liberal Studies Program (attended), McGill Arts (Arts is a separate faculty from Science), George Washington University, Boston University (merit $$), Pitt, and whoops, one more can’t remember</p>
<p>Waitlisted: Carnegie Mellon, Brandeis - declined waitlists after accepting NYU’s offer
Rejected: Tufts and UChicago (deferred EA, then rejected)</p>
<p>SAT score was within the range/3.8 GPA; 16/500 - 6 APs</p>
<p>“get into college in the past two or three years”</p>
<p>guess I broke the rules too :(</p>
<p>1970 SAT
29 ACT
4.5 GPA</p>
<p>Accepted: Cal Poly, UC Davis, UC San Diego, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara</p>
<p>SAT I: CR-720, W-680, M-530
estimated 3.4 UW GPA , 8 or 9 honors classes, no AP’s
Accepted: Smith, Beloit, Earlham, Kalamazoo, Knox, Hendrix, Bard, NCF
Waitlisted: Bryn Mawr
Rejected: Pitzer, Scripps</p>
<p>Son’s SAT in that range.
Accepted Bucknell, Fordham, Lehigh, Santa Clara, Seattle U (some schools with merit)
Waitlisted Carnegie Mellon, NYU</p>
<p>Thank God they looked beyond the GPA.
What’s funny is that his ultimate safety, lowest rated and least selective by a longshot (which will remain unnamed), rejected him. Apparently they were unable to look beyond the GPA.</p>
<p>Nice to see this thread still going. Now is the time when many current HS juniors have a set of SAT scores and a rough estimate of where they fall in their HS class (rank) and are looking for some good and realistic college match schools. I started this thread because my son’s HS does not have naviance and the GC’s refused to share any prior class college acceptance information (citing privacy issues)! I continue to find this thread helpful to read through and and refer others to it.</p>
Hope it’s ok to resurrect this thread; the topic remains timely, and new info would be helpful.
My S had a 1960 SAT (680M, 670CR, 610W; so 1350 M/CR), 3.93 uw gpa, 31 ACT (strong in math/science). No AP classes offered at HS, year-round state-level swimmer but not D1 material, OK ECs.
Last year, he was accepted at UH-Manoa (state flagship/safety), UCSC, Digipen, and Univ. of Denver (attending with great merit aid and FA).
Denied at USC.
Decided not to apply to Stanford, Harvey Mudd, Pomona, or UW-Seattle, (first 2 because chances too slim, 3rd because didn’t like it, 4th because FA likely not sufficient).
We are legal guardians to my niece. She is currently accepted to: CAL, UCLA, USC, Pomona, Vandy, and Georgetown. Wait listed at WashU. Deferred at Yale. Waiting next week for Princeton.
She eventually wants to go to dental school. She went to a private school out west–graduating in the top 2% of her senior class of 450 students. 2100 SAT, 32 ACT. She is a URM, and has a hook also as a state ranked athlete.
My DD had a 1990 SAT and applied ED and was accepted to TCNJ.