<p>“Rodney… can you name a few more schools that you know of that have a tendency to lean in admissions to kids from VERY rigorous private prep schools. My DS is one of those kids… high test scores but 3.4 GPA.”</p>
<p>5boys, if that is a well known private prep school, that has no grade inflation…he may be looking at more selective schools than you might think. There are students with your son’s stats at my kid’s high school that get into top 20, even ivies. You need to figure that out with your GC, as when you look at the GPA stats for acceptances to some of these schools and realize your son is in the bottom 5-10%, often those kids are from the elite private schools. My older son got into schools that theoretically he shouldn’t have, based on GPA, purely based on that issue.</p>