<p>Our local high school puts this thing on their public website, so I guess it’s okay to post here-</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.pvpusd.k12.ca.us/penhi/collegeacceptance/collegeacceptance2010.pdf[/url]”>http://www.pvpusd.k12.ca.us/penhi/collegeacceptance/collegeacceptance2010.pdf</a></p>
<p>The school’s profile is on the main webpage. Probably not as much help as your own Naviance, but sort of interesting.</p>
<p>That’s a really nice spreadsheet. Not only GPA and test scores, but weighted GPA and EC’s. Must be a very large high school?</p>
<p>^^^I think there’s around 650 senior class. It looks like the spreadsheet is presented sorted by school and by student.</p>
<p>Might be a little helpful if your kid goes to a similar school.</p>
<h1>715 accepted to MIT, princeton, rice, stanford, UCLA with a 1980 and 3.75 UW</h1>
<h1>848 rejected at brown, harvard, princeton, yale with a 2400 and 3.98 UW</h1>
<p>^^^Although I think people generally report honestly, I obviously cannot vouch 100% for every result posted on here.</p>
<p>And there may be other hook factors in play as well.</p>
<p>Where is this school located?</p>
<p>Los Angeles area, hence all the UC.</p>
<p>[Palos</a> Verdes Peninsula High School - School Profile](<a href=“http://pvphs.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7&Itemid=17]Palos”>http://pvphs.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7&Itemid=17)</p>
<p>I’m not implying any dishonesty, it’s just that some of the results here are mind blowing. The college admissions game is just crazy</p>
<p>Fascinating. I thought it was amusing that there were a handful of kids who applied to Harvard with SAT scores in the 400s and 500s. What were they thinking? </p>
<h1>715 wasn’t a slouch: 690 Math and 7 APs and his/her SAT subject tests aren’t listed. (But very likely there was a hook involved.) I didn’t find too many mind blowing results. If you are 650+ on the SAT sections and good, but not necessarily perfect grades, and you take 5 or more APs you are in the running at most selective colleges. (And if you want to go to Harvard 2200+/2400 SATs seems to be what it takes.)</h1>
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I know, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some. But you’re right, the admissions stuff is nuts.</p>
<h1>715 had a check in the research box. Important, but I hope not critical, for MIT. Part of the application allows you to input a URL where the admissions office can review your resarch.</h1>
<p>I sympathize with 543. HIgh sats, 3.5 UW gpa, and no luck at any reaches.</p>
<p>I remember seeing this posted last year, when I was a newbie to CC and son was applying to colleges. He was even interested in the UCs out of state. On Naviance, he was in an area with not many other kids (High ACT, not so great GPA), so I spent a very long time with this document last year.</p>
<p>Now this year, I have NO reason to spend time looking at it. But it is addictive. Thanks for the time sink.</p>
<p>^^^Yeah, every year they update it and I post it. People seem to get a kick out of it, and some information.</p>
<p>Thanks - it’s interesting and I’m sure eye-opening for a lot of people in both directions - those who thought they were a slam-dunk might not be and those who thought they had no chance might find that they do.</p>
<p>I assume this data is collected by the high school, so the information is not input by students. I don´t see how people could lie about the data.</p>
<p>This data actually shows that college admission is not that random. There were only a handful of students who got admitted to top schools with low stats, and we could all name those hooks. What it shows me is that high test scores do not over come mediocre GPA.</p>
<p>For applicant 543, it shows top tier schools do not weight GPA. His UW GPA is 3.56 and W GPA is close to 4.0, but he was not competitive.</p>
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You cold be right. </p>
<p>The data is complied by the high school, but do colleges typically tell the high schools whether the students are admitted?</p>
<p>I didn’t know how it works. I think this comes from a similar place that Naviance data comes from, wherever that is.</p>
<p>Is 3.5 really so uncompetitive? With a 2240 and 9 AP courses? I have very similar stats, albeit a sob story to explain poor sophomore year grades. I still like to think I have enough of a chance at top schools to take a shot.</p>
<p>Very enlightening. Some mind blowing results, as DoinSchool so aptly put it.</p>
<p>Do all HS have Naviance? I’ve not heard that it’s available at my D’s HS.</p>
<p>Interesting is the sheer number of schools that one class applies to. I think of the poor counselors. . .Also, I’m surprised to see kids with low stats (SAT scores in the 1500-1700 range) applying to top schools. Why? Shouldn’t parents or counselors talk them out of it?</p>