<p>This is part II of my other thread "where did your 3.3-3.6 GPA child get in". I thought I will start now for those who have sent in their deposits already.</p>
<p>Let us update here so new parents can get some help figuring out for next year. </p>
<p>I was clueless when I first started and thought my child would not get accepted anywhere!! </p>
<p>Here I am now, feeling truly blessed with the acceptances he has in hand - Santa Clara, UT, Miami, WashU and USC. WL at CMU.</p>
<p>He is most likely going to either WashU (90%) or USC.</p>
<p>Son ( 3.5W) going to Loyola University Maryland. (in at Delaware, Pitt, UConn, Hofstra, Drexel, Syracuse, Vermont, Ithaca, Fairfield) rejected: American, Northeastern, Penn State.</p>
<p>D applied to many nursing programs. (Nursing was very competitive this year.)</p>
<p>She looked at the program opportunities, class size, NCLEX pass rates, clinical opportunities, etc.</p>
<p>She will happily be attending the University of Scranton, where she also got some merit money. </p>
<p>Also accepted in to Nursing programs at Fairfield, Quinnipiac, Seton Hall, U Maine, URI and a few other safeties. Did not get in to nursing at Northeastern, and was waitlisted at UVM nursing.</p>
<p>D had a WGPA of 3.6. She will be attending the University of Delaware and is beyond excited. (Ended up choosing UD over American - very different schools and different price tags.) Other acceptances: UConn, Towson, URI, SUNY-Albany, SUNY-Buffalo.</p>
<p>She did not have any rejections - only one deferred admission (UMD-CP) and one waitlist (Binghamton - which she chose not to go on). Her only negative was her SAT and ACT scores (a biggie!). Otherwise, she could have aimed for even higher rated schools, but UD is SUCH a good fit for her that we are really, really pleased.</p>
<p>My advice to current juniors in this GPA range is to GO FOR IT. Aim high. You never know.</p>
<p>Will attend: Willamette University with a $16,000 per year renewable merit scholarship (must maintain a 2.5 gpa to keep, which shouldn’t be a problem). </p>
<p>He was admitted early to Willamette and visited in February; after that visit, the school never budged from first place in his mind. He enjoyed the students, liked everything about the campus; and realized it has great programs in his areas of interest: Japanese and English. We’re thrilled with this outcome.</p>
<p>Also accepted at U Rochester, Clark U, Wheaton MA, and UMass Amherst; waitlisted at Skidmore & Brandeis; rejected at Tufts & Cornell.</p>
<p>He picked Goucher over the more selective schools on his list because he really felt at home with the “vibe” of the campus and the people, and because it’s strong in his areas of interest (music/performing arts, IR, languages).</p>
<p>D had a 3.5 GPA. Attending UVM.<br>
Accepted at Drexel, Fairfield, Marist, Quinnipiac, Suffolk, UNH.
Rejected at Northeatern.
Waitlisted (and decided to stay on) at Emerson.</p>
<p>D had a 3.5 or 3.6. She will attend Saint Michael’s College in Burlington, VT, which she fell in love with last spring. She was also accepted at Allegheny, St. Lawrence, SUNY-ESF, Hartwick. Accepted at SUNY Geneseo for spring 2010 or fall 2011/waitlisted for fall 2010. Waitlisted at Colby. No rejections. Because we needed merit $, she mainly applied at matches and safeties, all of which she could picture herself attending.</p>
<p>CalAlum,
You are from CA right? I was wondering if your son got into UCSD & UCSB OOS. My son’s stats - gpa & Sat are almost the same. I think based upon the cost for OOS we are looking at some private’s that might give him some merit. He is looking for warm weather schools.</p>
<p>@Idinct,
We are Californians! If you’re looking for merit aid among western schools, I recommend the thread that Historymom started called something like “Western schools for the 3.0-3.3 student.” That list would probably provide a good collection of safety schools, and you can hope for merit money when the students stats are in the highest section of the school’s range. </p>
<p>But some match schools schools are just good with merit money, and Willamette is one of them. Of the schools to which my son applied, Willamette was the only school to offer any merit money. He had a really strong first semester senior year, and when his mid-year report came out, Willamette reviewed his file and offered additional merit money on top of the original offer. That was a nice surprise! Princeton Review identified 50 “Best Value” schools in the country, and Willamette is on this list (which also includes high-reach schools like Harvard and Yale). It would be worth taking a look at the match and safety schools on that list for your son.</p>
<p>When you say you want “warmer weather,” I’m not sure what that means, since you could be living in Maine or North Dakota right now. If you want weather that’s quite a bit milder, but not necessarily sunny and hot like in Los Angeles or Phoenix, I recommend the schools in the Pacific Northwest, because we have found them to be less expensive than some other regions, and many of these institutions are really beautiful, hidden gems.</p>
<p>Thanks we haven’t considered the NW. We are from CT so he says he wants warmer, sunnier weather. We have been out to look at many LA area schools - LMU, Occidental, Chapman, USD- but not sure if he would be eligible for merit at any of those. We are starting to look in the South, but S is fairly liberal, so not sure how he will fit in. He is the youngest of 5, so we need all the help we can get! We are also looking at some public honors programs, but with his gpa not sure how many he could get into and I’ve heard good things about some of those. I would say he wouldn’t get into the Honors program at our state flagship, but possibly other states.
Interesting about the offer of additional merit. I think S will be motivated right up to about that point.</p>
<p>Admitted: Univ of Georgia, Oxford College of Emory University, Clemson, Univ of South Carolina SC Honors College (merit aid), Wofford College (merit aid)
All safeties except USC SC Honors College - which was considered a high reach.</p>
<p>Denied: Univ of Chicago, UNC-Chapel Hill, William and Mary (all high reaches)</p>
<p>Wait listed: Emory College of Emory University, George Washington Univ, Univ of Michigan (Emory was a low reach, GWU was a match, not sure about Michigan, suspect it was a reach).</p>
<p>Attending: USC’s SC Honors College - was always one of his top choices.</p>
<p>^^
This is the scale our high school uses and I understand it’s fairly common…our school does not have weighted GPAs…grades are given on a 100 pt scale, then converted to a letter grade which is converted to the 4.0 scale. The kids can actually get over 100 (if they do extra credit, etc. but 100 is the max that can be reported on the transcript e.g. 110 = 100, 101 = 100 and so on). For senior scholars the high school school has some complex formula that does weight AP and ACT scores (required in our state) to calculate the rank order for the top 10% but that “score” is not shared with colleges and only used for commencement and the honors convocation.</p>
<p>^^
Thanks. Our daughter’s school is part of the IB program (she is and IBDC student) and so her IB classes are graded on a 5 point scale and so she has 6 IB classes and 2 ‘regular’ which are on a 4 point scale : (</p>