<p>So glad to see this thread back. Hope more 2012 parents post.</p>
<p>Forester - I am already freaking and hinting to my son to cast a wide net.</p>
<p>Globaltraveler - I agree that an education can be had in many ways, but I also know my kid, his intelligence, his immaturity, all of it. He would NOT do well at a large state school. He could blend in at the lectures, put off the work & then get hit at the end. He does better in discussion classes. Dealing with red tape is also not his thing. Given the cost of our state schools, we may be better off financially at a private.</p>
<p>Good for you!My daughter is a first year at Wellesley. If we had gone purely on numbers she would not even have tried.She is a leader and had great extra curriculars ,that was the deciding factor IMO.Schools like Wellesley stack up favorably with anyone.</p>
<p>I am a white, middle class girl with no hooks. I didn’t study for the SAT or ACT on principle and I have an 3.7 UW GPA at a top private school. I was accepted at Colorado College with a $40,000 merit schol, UVM with a $44,000 merit schol, UChicago EA, waitlisted at Wesleyan, accepted at Macalester, rejected by Brown and Columbia and waiting to hear from Middlebury and Yale</p>
<p>My daughter was accepted at Wheaton MA (73K), U of R (9K) and Colby with a 1950 SAT and 3.8 GPA. Still waiting to hear from Middlebury. No hooks, but excellent EC’s and recs.</p>
<p>With merit scholarships:
UCONN
Northeastern University
University of Rochester
University of Miami
University of Pittsburgh (full tuition)
Smith College (merits are rare, though. About 250 awarded out of 4k+ apps)</p>
<p>Schools with no merit scholarships:
Brown University
Johns Hopkins University
Harvard University</p>
<p>Rejected at MIT, Stanford. </p>
<p>Straight A GPA UW, all honors and AP classes, ranked 4/249 at time of applying, SAT 2080, M+CR = 1380, took Math 2, Bio M subject tests.</p>
<p>S had 1970 SAT. 29 ACT superscore . Not sure of GPA; at least 3.7 uw (homeschooled last year and school wouldn’t include that year in its GAP or rank). Honors, 3 APs. URM. Unique ECs and great essays.</p>
<p>Haverford
Macalester
Kenyon
Dickinson
Oberlin ($15,000/yr merit; will be attending!)
College of Wooster ($15,000/yr merit)
Goucher ($15,000/yr merit)
Juniata ($17,000/yr merit)
Denison ($20,000/yr merit)</p>
<p>Thanks for this thread everybody. My 2014D just got her first SAT results, 2100, but 700M/660CR/740W. She has big ambitions for Ivy kind of schools. Very good ECs with a couple regional Science Olympiad medals and hoping/possible to add state/national medals this/next year. Straight As, top 2% of class and will have 10 APs. She’s interested in engineering. CPU, your post gives me great hope.</p>
<p>We felt like that 2000-ish SAT score was somewhat of an “in-between” score in today’s competitive admissions process. It seemed like my son didn’t fall solidly into either category - very strong A+ student, great SATs, or more B type student, making us cast a wide net.</p>
<p>So here are the results for S2 with a 3.7 GPA, 2000 SAT (650 M, 690 CR, W 660) lots of ECs and community service. Hope this helps the 2013 class!</p>
<p>Accepted:</p>
<p>Wake Forest
Boston College
University of Maryland (invited to CP Scholars)
University of Richmond
Tulane
Elon
University of Georgia</p>
<p>Denied:
Vandy</p>
<p>Deferred:
Univ. of Michigan (still no answer but it is getting late so will assume waitlist or denial)</p>
<p>My daughter:
700M + 680R + 590W = 1970 total
33 ACT single sitting, 34 superscore
Rank 8/284
NHS pres, track team captain (4 seasons), hospital volunteer</p>
<p>Accepted:
Salisbury University ($3,500/yr)
Juniata College (Quniter Scholarship $20,000/yr)
Dickinson college (John Dickinson Scholarship $20,000/yr)
Hobart & William Smith (Trustee Scholar $20,000/yr)
Elon University (Presidential Scholarship & Elon College Fellow $9,000/yr)
Muhlenberg College (Presidential Scholarship & Muhlenberg Scholar $20,000/yr)
Gettysburg College (Abe Lincoln Scholarship $25,000/yr)
Franklin & Marshall College
Skidmore College
College of William & Mary (only submitted ACT)</p>
<p>Waitlisted
Bucknell University</p>
<p>She’s currently trying to decide between Muhlenberg, Gettysburg, and Elon for a Health Sciences major.</p>
<p>My daughter had 4.6 GPA and 2120 SAT and didn’t get any merit aid from Pitt. Maybe it was because her major, biology, is among their most popular?</p>
<p>We took a different tactic and went for merit aid, so DS applied to schools that offered good merit aid and where he was in the top percentages for school:</p>
<p>Assuming the 3.7 GPA was UW? On our end, 3.6 UW w/1400 SAT got denied @BC, Wash U, Emory; UMich deferred and still waiting for final decision. Varsity sport, comm. svc, great recs, etc. We have learned that the key is a 4.0 UW GPA, not necessarily how many APs. Schools don’t take into account weighted GPAs so be sure the AP courses will not ruin your GPA.</p>
<p>1970 SAT
3.7 unweighted GPA, competitive HS</p>
<p>Hook:worked with special needs athletes, intern with cape cod baseball league, and then a bunch of school stuff, honors society etc, baseball, newspaper</p>
<p>admitted Univ of Richmond, had local very good interview, College of Charleston honors (where he will attend), Quinnipiac, URI, UCONN, UMASS,</p>
<p>Waitlisted GW, AU, NE, Wake Forest (bad interview), will not pursue any of these</p>