Acceptance to Ivy Leagues... GPA??

sherpa
Sat, 24 Feb 2018 08:38:46 +0000

@ucbalumnus wrote: “But you can assume that, for any super-selective college, you need a HS GPA that is an unweighted 4.0 or very close to it in hard courses, barring some very unusual circumstances. Of course, while this is generally necessary for admission, it is nowhere near sufficient for admission.”

I completely agree.

For what it’s worth, one of my kid’s unweighted GPA was 4.0 and the other’s was something like 3.98 (on a 4.0 scale), both with extremely rigorous course loads. Both were accepted by their first choice colleges, Princeton and Duke respectively.