<p>No, my daughters CR score was 620. Math was under 600, and the only score above 700 was writing. She just is one of those people who underperform on standardized tests. On everything else in life she overperforms. </p>
<p>My d. had more than one glaring weakness, but knows to play to her strengths. </p>
<p>I actually think it helps a little at the more selective schools to have some sort of imbalance in stats because it makes the applicant come alive a little more. If they can get a sense of an applicant, even if relying somewhat on stereotypes, they can also get a sense of where that student fits in the class they are building. “Practically perfect in every way” sometimes is a lot less memorable in a field of very high stat applicants. </p>
<p>My d’s strength was in the foreign language she had studied extensively, but her essay was a humorous exploration focused on how much she had struggled with that language .</p>
<p>Yes, Planestate, we are in-state. I also love UO. It is a beautiful place, Eugene is a great college town, and the atmosphere is a wonderful combination of busy and creative, but still relaxed. My daughter has also had a very, very excellent academic experience there, in the honors college and also in her major and minor departments. She’ll graduate next June.</p>
<p>I don’t know of any predetermined limit on the number of out-of-state students. It is becoming very popular with students from California – or so I hear.</p>
<p>Feel free to send me a private message if there are any questions I can answer.</p>
<p>PLanestate… we are also from CA and I have many friends who have kids that are forgetting about our in state schools and are feverishly applying to UO. It is a GREAT school and also offers pretty good merit for OOS. My S wants a small LAC or he would be applying for sure… he is applying to 2 Oregon schools though. CA publics are a tragedy.</p>
<p>We don’t qualify for need based aid, so tried to apply to universities offering merit aid for academic scholarship</p>
<p>D1 (graduated 2006)
4.0 unweighted GPA, 4.7 weighted (top 2% of class), accepted 12 out of 12, nmf, full or partial scholarships at 8</p>
<p>UCLA
UC Berkeley
UC San Diego
UC Irvine
Duke
UNC Chapel Hill
Clemson
college in Dallas area
Boston University
USC
Pepperdine
Baylor
went to Baylor on full tuition NMF scholarship
now in second year teaching for “Teach for America” in Tulsa , OK</p>
<p>D2 (graduated 2008)
about 3.85 unweighted/ 4.4 weighted (top 3% of class), commended NM scholar, got into 9 out of 9, got several scholarships</p>
<p>UCLA
UC San Diego
UC Irvine
USC
UNC Chapel Hill
Clemson
Boston University
Boston College
A university in Wash DC area (can’t remember name now)
D2 now a senior at UCLA /no scholarship</p>
<p>D3 (graduated 2010)
about 3.8 unweighted GPA, 4.3 weighted (top 3% of class) , Commended NM Scholar, applied to 11, got accepted to 10 and waitlisted for UVA, got several scholarships</p>
<p>Northeastern
Ithica
Univ of Washington
University of Miami
University of Michigan
Clemson
University of Alabama
UCLA
UC San Diego
UC Santa Barbara
UVA - waitlisted
Soph at Univ of Alabama on full tuition Presidential scholarship</p>
<p>Re: UO, We did a self-guided tour, but when we stopped in the Alumni center we overheard two CA families dissing UC while they waited for their tour. I suspect acceptance rate is going to drop for UO with all the Californians discovering what a great school it is. The honor’s college has a substantial premium for OOS, but the LAC quality within the larger community would definitely appeal to D. We also visited Oregon State, but D was put off by the sense of sports overshadowing academics. However we wandered into a science building (to wash hands after petting extremely friendly cows) and I was impressed with the facilities. Short list is now UO,UCSB,UCD,UCSC. I’ll be sure to post results when admission decisions come back!</p>
<p>I heard on the news tonight that UO is going to cap the incoming class of freshman at 4000 – this would be in fall of 2012, I believe. It didn’t say anything about in-state/out-of-state, just the overall number.</p>
<p>That’s a pretty nice list you have there. I am pretty familiar with those schools, too. I’m sure if your D is at UO or any of those UCs, she’ll have an exciting experience.</p>
<p>I had 2160 on SAT and I was still accepted into MIT Early Action. I’ve known people with 1900 SAT still get into MIT (because they demonstrated greater strength elsewhere in the applications )</p>
I’ll start off the new data. My son had SAT 2170 but a better ACT 35. He is also NMS, GPA 4.0 weighted, unweighted? Class rank 6/286. His essays were very good.
Of the top 30 schools, he was accepted at Vanderbilt, Emory and UNC OOS. Wait list at UVA. Rejected Northwestern and WUSTL. He was accepted at multiple other lower tier schools, including Alabama, Miami-OH, UTennessee, and UKentucky, all with large merit scholarship offers.
We don’t qualify for financial aid and despite the FAFSA calculation, the top 3 acceptances will be a stretch financially since we are full pay. UNC OOS used to be a bargain, only 35K a few years back but now up to 50K per year. I don’t know if any of these top 3 are worth 200-260K for 4 years since he has excellent offers at the others.
Agreed lefty, UNC not worth $50k. It really stinks that if you make enough to be full pay in the eyes of FAFSa, but in reality can’t swing it , while another kid with less means can go.
SAT score is 2120. 3.8 GPA, lots of EC’s, prestigious internship, community service, etc.
Accepted: Tulane ($36,000/yr.), Cal-Berkeley (No aid), UCLA (no aid), Univ. of Texas-Austin (Full tuition), Univ. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (Don’t know aid yet), Univ. of South Carolina (Full ride), Univ. of Arkansas (Full tuition), Univ. of Alabama (Full tuition).
Waitlisted: Vanderbilt University
Rejected: Stanford Univ., Rice Univ., Duke Univ.
Waiting on: Harvard Univ., Princeton Univ., Yale Univ., Columbia Univ., and Univ. of Pennsylvania.
Doesn’t it make a difference how you get to the 2100-2200? My impression is that the CR and Math are weighed more heavily than the Writing. From discussion with Williams admissions officer: “We look mostly at the reading and math.”
2140, ACT=33. Accepted to 3 combined bs/md programs at in-state publics. Attended one of them on full tuition Merit award. Acccepted to CWRU on great Merit award, did not choose it because of rejection from bs/md program there.
Money made my D.to choose UG that fitted her the best - her conclusion looking back several years later as a 4th year Medical Student who is graduating in May of this year. D. did not have any desire to apply to any Elite colleges. She may or may not have been accepted there, we simply do not know. She never checked even ranking of any of the colleges she applied to, she said that it was not relevant to her decision making. She was checking rankings when applying to Med. Schools, but again, she did not choose the highest ranked at the end.
SAT score is 2120. 3.8 GPA, lots of EC’s, prestigious internship, community service, etc.
Accepted: Tulane ($36,000/yr. Aid, mostly merit), Cal-Berkeley (No aid), UCLA (no aid), Univ. of Texas-Austin (Full tuition), Univ. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (17,000/Yr. aid), Univ. of South Carolina (Full ride), Univ. of Arkansas (Full tuition), Univ. of Alabama (Full tuition).
Waitlisted: Vanderbilt University
Rejected: Stanford Univ., Rice Univ., Duke Univ. Harvard Univ., Princeton Univ., Yale Univ., Columbia Univ., and Univ. of Pennsylvania.
Lol feeling the love from the public schools. Private, not so much.
I’ll be attending the Red McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin next fall! I’ll be saving money for an MBA down the road and I’m beyond stoked to end up at Texas.
Rejection hurts, but there’s so many roads to success when you just have the right mindset and are willing to take risks.
All will be swell.
Last year…D had 2140, 3.7UW, 4.4W, IB Diploma. Accepted (with merit to all except College Park) to Denison (attending), Oberlin, Dickinson, Muhlenberg, U of MD, Miami (OH), St. Mary’s (MD). Rejected Cornell, Swarthmore, Haverford
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