Help me come up with schools to visit

[Anonymous]

I clearly don’t understand the current application process bc I see 1550 and then I see “Lehigh is a reach.” ?!?! Lehigh is ranked #47. This kid has an SAT score in the 99th percentile and a solid B gpa. And the best they can do is Lehigh as a reach?!

[Anonymous]

What grade is your kid in? I’m wondering how the child has an SAT score already but you say it’s “early.” If the student is a junior it isn’t early and if the student is a sophomore there is time to get the GPA up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PA tour - Lafayette, Lehigh, Villanova, Pitt and Drexel.

CA - Santa Clara, San Jose State, UCSC, San Diego State, USD, LMU

Upstate NY - University of Rochester, RPI, RIT

NY area- NYU, Fordham, Stevens Institute

Mass - U Mass Amherst, WPI, Wentworth, BU, NEU

Midwest - Rose Hulman, Purdue, Wisconsin, Ohio, UIUC, Boulder, University of Denver

Good list

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I clearly don’t understand the current application process bc I see 1550 and then I see “Lehigh is a reach.” ?!?! Lehigh is ranked #47. This kid has an SAT score in the 99th percentile and a solid B gpa. And the best they can do is Lehigh as a reach?!

I’m not the poster that said that but the B GPA next to a 1550 could be a problem. It suggests the kid doesn’t work to their potential.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I clearly don’t understand the current application process bc I see 1550 and then I see “Lehigh is a reach.” ?!?! Lehigh is ranked #47. This kid has an SAT score in the 99th percentile and a solid B gpa. And the best they can do is Lehigh as a reach?!

I’m not the poster that said that but the B GPA next to a 1550 could be a problem. It suggests the kid doesn’t work to their potential.

And OP also said ECs are fine but not great, which could reflect (to colleges at least) a lack of motivation, drive, or involvement. On paper, those stats read as a middle of the road student who tests well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I clearly don’t understand the current application process bc I see 1550 and then I see “Lehigh is a reach.” ?!?! Lehigh is ranked #47. This kid has an SAT score in the 99th percentile and a solid B gpa. And the best they can do is Lehigh as a reach?!

Lehigh is a top 50 school and Lehigh’s acceptance rate is now below 25% and even harder for engineering so I am not sure the confusion. That said, a 3.5 from a rigorous private and a high SAT score, I’d take my shot at an ED acceptance.

[Anonymous]

take a look at Alabama

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:3.5 GPA. Ouch.

Is everything okay?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Am trying to start school visits earlier with my second kid, as we waited too long with my first. What are some possible schools for a kid with a 3.5 UW but all the hardest classes, 1550 SAT, decent extracurriculars but nothing outstanding. White male from McPS.

I know 3.5 is not considered very good from MCPS but not sure what types of schools would be realistic. Engineering is a possibility or other STEM—still not really sure.

Thanks.

Great that they are taking hardest classes and 1550. Penn State? Drexel? Auburn? Clemson?

[Anonymous]

Tulane

[Anonymous]

Coming from what school or district? A 3.5 from a private school is good compared to a public where that could be low depending on the school.

[Anonymous]

OP, what do you mean "you started too late with your first?" Need to know the problem. Why would you think that. Each kid is different - for your first it may have been the perfect outcome. Or did the results negatively impact the family (finances?) in some way?

[Anonymous]

Penn State
Clemson
Ohio University
James Madison (VA)

[Anonymous]

Minnesota

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Am trying to start school visits earlier with my second kid, as we waited too long with my first. What are some possible schools for a kid with a 3.5 UW but all the hardest classes, 1550 SAT, decent extracurriculars but nothing outstanding. White male from McPS.

I know 3.5 is not considered very good from MCPS but not sure what types of schools would be realistic. Engineering is a possibility or other STEM—still not really sure.

Thanks.

Why should anyone do that for you when that is what a college counselor is for?

Good grief.

Why should you care if posters share ideas with OP?

Go away.

Why should you care if posters share what they think.
Good grief.
Go away.