I have a sophomore at Villanova CLAS. Our stats were 32 superscore, 11APs, lots of focused extracurriculars, employment and leadership in a specific sport. 3.7 UW/4.0 W. Our weighting system is definitely different than what Villanova reports. I don’t know how they calculate it but for sure ours is different if you look at their stats. For example we can’t have UW higher than 4.0 so I don’t know how they report UW higher than that. Also we don’t give a full point bump for AP (or honors). Anway….My child’s stats were about the “bottom” of what Villanova typically accepts from our highly rated Catholic school. Definitely in range, but at the bottom, and kids with my child’s stats from our school are more often rejected than accepted. Coming from a Catholic school I think it’s important to understand the context of the stats that are typically accepted from your school. Anyway…we applied ED1 and got in. For sure ED helped. One other kid with similar stats was accepted ED from our school that year and two others with much higher GPAs (4.0 UW = max possible) were accepted EA. Among those two, one attends and one went to ND.
So, back to your kid…definitely look at accepted stats from your school. But my gut is that your son would get in to CLAS ED and would be a toss up for the business school. I don’t have a good sense of how hard it is to get in to Engineering vs. Business or CLAS. Probably harder to get Engineering than CLAS.
Best of luck to him and Go Cats!