<p>IDK, It does look like there may be some grade inflation - it skews pretty high for the weighted GPA.</p>
<p>It’s a good public school, but not an elite school as far as I know. But a lot of rich people probably want their kids to apply to top schools, and they can afford it I’m sure, regardless of the chances their kids have of being admitted.</p>
<p>I do feel for the counselors - they are wonderful people, and give attention to all level of students.</p>
<p>Bflo, try not to panic. The 1600 SAT score isn’t a bad starting point. Most good prep courses report gains of 200-300 points, so he should be okay if he’s willing to take a course and do some praticing. The GPA will limit his options. Can you motivate him to bring it try bring it up this year? If he can get closer to a 3.0 GPA and over 500 on each section of the SAT, he should have some decent choices.</p>
I bet he’ll have more choices than you think. To tell the truth, I wish my own kid had your kids stats. He’s a good guy but let’s just say he’s not Harvard material. :)</p>
<p>Not only that, if you copy and paste into a spreadsheet, and then resort it, you can come up with a list of the students ranked by gpa, or sat. This will show you the results student by student. Its a lot more useful than Naviance, which shows it by school on the graph.</p>
<p>I did something like this for our high school before we had naviance. It was very helpful in deciding where my child fit, and which schools to apply to. Now that we have naviance, the data are not as good.</p>
<p>I wish that every kid who was applying to schools well beyond their reach would spend some time looking at a results list like this. I’m astounded by the student with the 3.1 GPA who applied to Harvard and tons of other extremely selective schools. It’s a waste of time for everybody.</p>
<p>Thanks for the link. I also found it fascinating and a good dose of reality. What surprised me is the number of students who had performed some sort of research.</p>
<h1>532 applied to 38 schools so either his parents like to abuse their checking account on application fees or he/she had fee waivers and that also was an abuse of $$$. Either way, I think someone should have put a stop to this many apps.</h1>
<p>Kajon, I wondered about the number of students with the research credit, too.
Maybe it’s loosely defined and includes everything from independent study to Intel-worthy projects.</p>
<p>Since a lot of rich families live there, the cost factors usually do not get in to the consideration for applicants and it do skew the results quite bit. In my school district, an area where more lessor affluent parents reside, the similar ranked HS tended to skew towards public universities.</p>
<p>Wow…that was fascinating…my daughter’s high school has about 800 graduating/year. I wish they published a list like this.</p>
<h1>715 - I find the results totally bizarre. No research reported - in fact, nothing reported for EC’s – yet the kid is going to MIT (so s/he doesn’t sound like an actor/politician kid) and also got into a bunch of other insanely selective schools (so legacy preference wouldn’t explain all of the results).</h1>
<p>Amazing how many applications get thrown at the Ivies from this school, considering how few are accepted.</p>
Well, I just looked at Harvard and looks like 39 apps with 4 acceptances. So a little over 10% which beats the normal Harvard rate. So I don’t think that’s unreasonable. There are some people who shouldn’t have applied, and others who had good reason to give it a shot.</p>
<p>Holy moly at 715. I wonder what the explanation is there…well, I have an idea actually, which I will spare as an expense of political correctness</p>
<p>^Sure it’s likely that this is an URM - perhaps someone who doesn’t have English as their primary language. I suspect the lack of ECs is probably that this person is more active outside the school than in it - perhaps someone with a job for example. They seemed to be missing a lot of info for this student - I’m quite sure they had subject test scores for example.</p>
<p>I don’t think the Ivy acceptance rates are bad at all - and since it’s so difficult to predict which ones will get chosen, it’s not at all surprising that quite a few applications are sent off.</p>
<p>Yeah, when I see a lot of missing data I wonder about the entry. Like I said, although I’m not sure exactly where they get this data, I think in general it is probably valid more often than not.</p>
<p>The ECs are probably the least valid- I think they had my kid fill out a “senior survey” about this and maybe that’s where they get the info. Maybe also from some school records.</p>
<p>I think most kids are reasonably honest, but there may be some misunderstanding, miscategorization, and embellishment.</p>
<p>My son is applying to MIT and it truly amazes me how “unsure” this process is and that there seems to be no logic in who is in and who is out. If I came back in another life, I think it would be as an admission officer so I could figure out what the rules are.</p>