Is a 3.8 really too low for top schools?

menloparkmom
Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:26:17 +0000

on an unweighted scale where A= 4.0, B=3.0, etc etc, a kid can have all B’s one year and still have a 3.75 overall GPA
. many Colleges place less emphasis on Freshman year grades.
nearly 50 %of applicants to top private colleges come from schools that dont rank students. and those colleges use their own system to reweight grades anyway.
so regardless of how the HS grades or ranks a student, the college uses its own system to evaluate applicants .

DS was accepted at 2 Ivys [ had no interest in apply to HYP], Chicago, Wash U, Carleton, Pomona, and some others whose names escape me, and landed a full tuition scholarship at USC with a 3.75 GPA[ all B’s his Freshman year] , 99% SAT’s, unusual EC’s and great LOR’s., and was a NMF and AP National Scholar. He is an incredible writer and his essay was funny, revealing and poignant.
so it can be done.