<p>Thank you all for the input.</p>
<p>For some reason, our Naviance won’t let me change his stats for the “match school” section. There is a button to do so, but it doesn’t seem to work. The match schools it currently lists for him look like extreme safeties when I pull up the scatter plots…</p>
<p>I think the school has been using Naviance for quite a while now as there are many points on the public school graphs. One school that seems completely out of his reach (according to our Naviance) is University of Michigan…at our school, the average accepted student has a 4.1 weighted GPA. But he is a double legacy there, so I’m thinking he may as well try for it. (But whether to drive 12 hours to visit is another story…do you make that kind of drive to show interest, thinking that interest may help admission, or is it a waste of time and gas?) Of course, he does fall within the SAT score requirements. When I pull up Maryland, I see a graph similar to what I posted above, where there appears to be no one at his data point who even applied. </p>
<p>I’m really trying to find some reasonable match schools for him, a safety he would like (his counselor recommended Indiana as a safety, although it’s awfully far away) and a couple of reaches as he does have some good ECs/leadership. We’ve been looking at public for cost reasons, but if there is any change that aid from a private school might bring it to the same cost as an OOS public, I would encourage him to look at that as well.</p>