Finding Hidden Gem Colleges for Nerdy Introvert Daughter?

cquin85
Wed, 02 Nov 2022 21:27:44 +0000

relaxmon:

It is one of the schools where Selingo camped out and followed the admissions process and it certainly and unsurprisingly seems quite numbers focused.

I think that’s right. To get a break on one of GPA or test score, you need something else - I don’t want to say hook, because hooks are different at a big school like UW. IB or perhaps coming from a well known prep school. Here, that would be Lakeside or Bush, as good examples of prep schools with which they are familiar and whose rigor they understand well. If you’re just some kid applying on your GPA/test score alone, I’d want to be at least in the 29/30 range on the ACT, and the magic GPA number cut-off has reputedly been at 3.7. The advice we received from a few folks is that, if you’re choosing between incremental rigor and hitting that 3.7 threshold, hit the threshold and take the easier class. That would be admission suicide at a SLAC, as you probably know. One has to remember that UW is pulling from all over the state, including from MANY places with poor secondary education. So the easiest comparable is non-contextual GPA and test score. They don’t have the staff or the time to “really” figure out who you are.