D is going to be a senior in HS next year and was wondering her chances at the following schools that she has told me she is interested in. (We live in VA)
Virginia Tech
Indiana
Appalachian State
South Carolina
Oregon
SUNY Buffalo
South Florida
UNC Asheville
Ole Miss
Alabama
She has a 3.35 UW and 3.66 W with a 1230 on the SAT and 27 on ACT. She has also taken 4 APs and the rest of her courses were on an accelerated path.
If anyone can help me decipher which of these are reaches, safeties, and targets based on your experiences I would be very grateful.
@EmpireFrontier, you’ll probably get a better response if you post in the Parents forum and/or each of those universities’ individual forums.
She’s in at Alabama. I think she’s probably safe at the majority of those schools, unless she’s trying to get into an impacted major (like Indiana’s Kelley School of Business of engineering at VT). The cost of OOS attendance likely will vary quite a bit too, depending upon where she’s eligible for merit money.
Look up the Common Data Set for the schools… that will give you some insight as well.
Acceptance at VA Tech would probably depend on program of interest and where you are in VA. Check Naviance to see who is getting in at your school.
At my son’s HS (northern VA), the average admitted SAT is a 1380 and GPA a little over a 4.0 weighted. It’s probably at least a low reach with a 3.8/3.9 weighted GPA or lower.