Ivy League Colleges Still Within Reach?

tallgirl
Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:31:50 +0000

I’m no expert, but your concern is “his GPA range”-- and a lot of how that is “counted” in Admissions is effected by rigor of courses and rigor of his high school. Is/will he take APs as most Ivy League candidates do? Most AOs will recalculate his GPA anyway – to I’d estimate a 3.5ish, so the 4.1 weight doesn’t play in as much as you think as weighting factors vary greatly by high school and the field must be leveled. So then to account for this, rigor is factored in separately – which is good in your son’s case if he takes “the most challenging courses available to him” throughout HS. He sounds like a solid student but, actually I think, given these few stats, that his SAT range is something to more be concerned about than GPA in terms of the Ivies. If I’m not wrong, those – a cleaner number to evaluate & for colleges to in turn be USNWR “rated on” – are mainly above 2100 or 2200 on average at the Ivies these uber competitive days.